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Councilmember Larry Gossett: From Harlem to the Mob Attack on the Country’s Capitol Building

91.3 KBCS · 91.3KBCS 20210217 Larry Gossett – Harlem And Seattle And The Capitol Building Mob Attack

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.

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Bookmarks from Bellevue College Library

The Bellevue College Library partners up with KBCS for these regular book notes. (more…)

Reverend Dr. Samuel McKinney on West African Slave Castles

91.3 KBCS · 91.3KBCS 20210209 Rev Samuel McKinney On W African Slave Castles

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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Behind the Lens at the Nation’s Capitol During an Insurrection

91.3 KBCS · 91.3 KBCS 20210115 Behind The Lens At The Attack On The Nations Capitol

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. (more…)

Dr. Benjamin Danielson – Medical Services and Community

91.3 KBCS · 91.3KBCS 20210113 Dr Benjamin Danielson Sickle Cell ACES And How Medical Svcs Can Help Community

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. (more…)

Seattle City Council Public Safety Committee Meeting

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.

This would be the first discussion about the police use of tear gas, blast balls, chemical weapons and other crowd control weapons used against Black Lives Matter protests.

Harassment of Japanese Americans After the Pearl Harbor Bombing

91.3 KBCS · 91.3 KBCS 20180205 Increasing Harrassment Of The JA American Comunity After Pearl Harbor

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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Henry Miyatake’s Suitcase

91.3 KBCS · 91.3 KBCS 20201230 Henry Miyatakes Suitcase Final

In 1941, Henry Miyatake befriended a Jewish boy who had fled Poland with his family. They went to the same middle school during WWII. This is a story about their relationship, before Miyatake and his family were incarcerated by the US government. Tom Ikeda, Densho Project Co-Founder interviewed Miyatake and recounts the story.

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Winter Solstice

91.3 KBCS · 91.3 KBCS 20201221 – Nature – Winter Solstice

It’s Winter Solstice 2020. Ed Dominguez describes some winter solstice festivities and a rare astronomical phenomenon occurring on the same day.

Producer: Ed Dominguez, Yuko Kodama and Jesse Callahan

Photo: JLS Photography – Alaska

How Small Businesses are Critical to Community

91.3 KBCS · Why Small Businesses are Critical to our Communities

Laura Clise, the Founder and CEO of Intentionalist, describes why moving away from a transactional economy to a relational economy is so important for the health of our communities. Intentionalist is an online directory and guide promoting businesses owned by black, indigenous, people of color (BIPOC), LGBTQ, veteran and differently-abled communities.