Councilmember Larry Gossett: From Harlem to the Mob Attack on the Country’s Capitol Building
February 18, 2021 - 11:40 pm
A KBCS interview with one of our region’s powerful leaders, Councilmember Larry Gossett. He served as King County Councilmember between the years of 1993 and 2019. Councilmember Gossett was also an active Black Panther Party member and was a founding member of the University of Washington Black Student Union. Listen to the experiences that transformed his life, and informed his approach to public service.
Bookmarks from Bellevue College Library
Reverend Dr. Samuel McKinney on West African Slave Castles
February 11, 2021 - 11:51 pm
Scattered along the coast of West Africa are old buildings – remains of slave castles from the former slave trade. The late Reverend Dr. Samuel Berry McKinney, a 40-year pastor of Mt Zion Baptist Church in Seattle’s Central District visited some of the slave castles on a trip with a group of ministers in the 1970’s. He reflects on what he saw, and the impact it had on two different groups with KBCS’s Yuko Kodama.
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Sustainability Campaign Update – Q2
January 30, 2021 - 1:27 pm
Thanks to the support of our many new and long-time donors, KBCS ended the second quarter of our fiscal year on track with our fundraising goals. Our current fiscal year is July 1, 2020 – June 30, 2021 and our second quarter ended December 31, 2020. The KBCS Sustainability Campaign launched on July 1, 2020
KBCS General Manager Message – January 2021
Dana Buckingham KBCS GM
January 27, 2021 - 1:27 pm
“Happy New Year and welcome to the twenty-first year of the twenty-first century!” I saw that scrawled on the message board in KBCS House Five recently and it gave me pause to reflect on the argument that 2021 is actually the beginning of a new millennia and that 2020 was year zero. Yet another appropriate
Behind the Lens at the Nation’s Capitol During an Insurrection
Photo by Nate Gowdy
January 14, 2021 - 7:53 am
Since 2015, local photographer, Nate Gowdy has been working on a personal project to document the Trump era’s political campaigns and culture. His photos will be compiled in a book titled, Vote American! Presidential Politics and Protest in the Age of Trump. Gowdy has travelled across the country to cover political rallies and events. Last Wednesday (January 6, 2021), he was in Washington DC to document the atmosphere around the Congressional confirmation of electoral votes for Rolling Stone. The day was interrupted by a mob attack on the country’s capitol building. Gowdy shares his experiences there with KBCS’s Yuko Kodama.
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Dr. Benjamin Danielson – Medical Services and Community
January 13, 2021 - 10:04 pm
The prominent pediatrician, Dr. Benjamin Danielson stepped down from his position as Medical Director at Odessa Brown Children’s Clinic in the Central District. This was in protest of Children’s Hospital’s racially inequitable management practices, as written by Dr. Danielson in a South Seattle Emerald opinion piece from this week.
Listen to a KBCS 2019 interview with Dr. Danielson as he discusses how a team approach to healthcare involving social services, and many other circles, could better support communities.
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Seattle City Council Public Safety Committee Meeting
January 12, 2021 - 2:38 am
The Seattle City Council Public Safety Committee will hold a discussion on the police chemical weapons ban today (January 12, 2021) at 9:30 this morning. Sign Up for public comment starts at 7:30 am and is open until public comments ends. This would be the first discussion about the police use of tear gas, blast
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Harassment of Japanese Americans After the Pearl Harbor Bombing
January 6, 2021 - 2:02 am
After the Japanese military attacked Pearl Harbor, Japanese American communities in the United States faced growing animosity from their neighbors. Dr. Roy Ebihara was eight years old at the time. Dr. Ebihara recounts how terrifying it was living in New Mexico within the months after the US entered WWII. Tom Ikeda of the Seattle-based, Densho Project interviewed him.
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