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The on-air portion of our fund drive has ended, but there's still time to help close the gap in our overall goal by March 31st. If you've yet to donate, please give now! If you've already supported or are a sustaining donor to KBCS, thank you so much!

$110,000 Goal

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Drive ends: March 31, 2024

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Seattle MLK Jr. Organizing Coalition

January 12, 2024 - 2:31 am

91.3 KBCS · 91.3KBCS 20240112 Seattle MLK Organizing Coalition   Martin Luther King Day was founded as the only federal holiday designated as a day of service in honor of the Reverend Dr Martin Luther King Jr. It’s referred to as a ‘day on, not off’. One of the region’s largest planned observances is over

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Griot Party Experience

January 5, 2024 - 12:01 pm

Griot Party Experience is an evening of authentic and inspiring storytelling to heal the soul.   Long time KBCS contributor, Logic Amen directs this event which features griots such as IamChamel, Monique Franklin, Deaunte Damper, Halisi, Na’eem Shareef, Mecca Amen and many others.   Griot Party Experience is January 13th, 8 pm at Langston Hughes Performing Arts

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Fleeing Myanmar (aired August, 2023)

January 4, 2024 - 1:15 pm

91.3 KBCS · 91.3KBCS 20230801 Rohingya Mohamed Imran has been a student in Washington after having fled Burma years ago as an 12 years old.  Imran describes his journey to the US and how he has stayed active in working for his community. Producers: Laura Florez, Lucy Braginski and Yuko Kodama Photo and drawing: Widder

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Curating the Audience – Monique Franklin

January 4, 2024 - 11:37 am

91.3 KBCS · 91.3KBCS 20240108 Curating the Audience – Monique Franklin Monique Franklin is the Founder of Inspired Child,  an organization that uses black art forms to encourage self awareness and empowerment and to strengthen the local Black community.  She explains why it’s important to her to ‘not only curate the artwork, but the audience’. Producer: Yuko

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Learning Lushootseed in an Environment of Intergenerational Trauma (aired August 2023)

January 1, 2024 - 2:49 am

91.3 KBCS · 91.3KBCS 20230808 Learning Lushootseed In A Household With Intergenerational Trauma   According to the CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation), indigenous language learning is increasing in Canada.  Tribes in our region have established multiple language programs to teach Lushootseed, the language of the Coast Salish in the Greater Seattle Area, north to Skagit River

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Tribal Canoe Journey 2023 Protocol (aired August 2023)

December 31, 2023 - 11:34 pm

91.3 KBCS · 91.3KBCS 20230808 2023 Tribal Canoe Journey Protocol At Muckleshoot The InterTribal Canoe Journey, otherwise referred to as “canoe journey” or “tribal journey” are a Coast Salish tribal event to bring back the ancestral cultural ways of using cedars canoes on the Salish Sea as a means to live in relation. Canoe journeys

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Black Belt Eagle Scout

December 19, 2023 - 5:03 pm

91.3 KBCS · 91.3KBCS 20231219 Black Belt Eagle Scout Katherine Paul or KP is the music artist behind Black Belt Eagle Scout. Her music has influences of alternative rock and traditional indigenous singing and drumming.  Paul is enrolled in the Swinomish tribe and is from Colville and Inupiaq lines.  She grew up in a family

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2023 Year-End Message From Our General Manager

Man in a suit with trees in background

December 19, 2023 - 12:11 pm

Dear Friends and Supporters of KBCS, It won’t be long now before we celebrate the arrival of a new year and bid farewell to 2023. This is a friendly reminder that you have until midnight on December 31st to make a tax-deductible contribution to KBCS on your 2023 tax return. Donations from KBCS listeners make

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The Houston family property in Renton

December 13, 2023 - 1:10 pm

91.3 KBCS · 91.3 KBCS 20231213 Houston Family Property In Renton This is a story about the Houston family who is seeking reparations from Renton School District in what they say was an unfair acquisition of their family’s former land in Renton. They were part of a vibrant Black community there in the 1950s. Producers:

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Take Our 2023 Listener Survey

December 12, 2023 - 3:24 pm

Hi KBCS Listeners! We hope this message finds you well! At KBCS, we truly value the opinions of our amazing community, and we believe that your insights can help us enhance your experience with us. That’s why we invite you to participate in our short and insightful listener survey. Your feedback is invaluable in shaping

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