Gerald Donaldson is a Family Support Worker at Leschi Elementary School in the Seattle Public School System. He assists families who need help, so the children at Leschi can thrive in school. Donaldson describes the challenges through the pandemic (from our interview with him last spring), and gives a more recent update of where
It’s the United Nations founded World Water Day today, March 22, 2022. Here’s a prompt for you to submit your own one-minute groundwater story. Five story submissions will be picked to present to the United Nations.
A report released by the Urban Indian Health Institute in 2018 shows that over 500 cases of missing or murdered indigenous women have been found throughout the United States – many since the year 2000. 70 women had gone missing or were murdered in Seattle and Tacoma. 6 were reported in Portland. How are indigenous
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91.3 KBCS · 91.3KBCS 20220303 Michelle Kumata Emerging Radiance Prior to World War II, Bellevue, Washington was home to a powerful and vibrant Japanese American community. In 1942 the United States government forcibly evacuated and incarcerated sixty Japanese American farming families from Bellevue. They were among 120,000 Japanese Americans who were sent to incarceration
91.3 KBCS · 91.3KBCS 20220301 Lauren Iida Densho Project Installation Lauren Iida is an artist who works with cut paper and paint. Iida is artist-in-residence with Densho Project. She recently completed an art installation for Densho Project’s community space. The piece was created in commemoration of the 80th anniversary of the day Franklin D.
91.3 KBCS · 91.3KBCS 20220221 Remember And Resist Day Of Remembrance 2022 On February 19th, a number of Japanese American organizations and La Resistencia partnered to observe the 80th anniversary of Executive Order 9066, signed by President Franklin Roosevelt. This act authorized the US military to forcibly remove and incarcerate 120,000 people of Japanese
91.3 KBCS · 91.3KBCS 20220218 ICE And Detention Antonio Guerrero, whose name is changed to protect their identity, describes what it was like to be picked up by ICE and to live and work for roughly a dollar a day at the US ICE detention center in Tacoma. Producer: Yuko Kodama Photo: University of Washington
On Feb 19, 1942 Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed an Executive Order authorizing the involuntary evacuation of Japanese American people from the West Coast to relocation centers throughout the country. As a result, most of the US Japanese and Japanese American population, 120,000 people, were forcibly incarcerated. Paul Tomita was sent to Minidoka Relocation Center
91.3 KBCS · 91.3KBCS 20220204 Chinese New Year Chinese New Year celebrations kicked off on Tuesday. The season is marked with celebrations involving food, feasts with loved ones, firecrackers and lion and dragon dances. KBCS brings you some tape from lion dance trainings in Renton and an interview about the dances and rituals of this
(This story originally aired in February of 2020.) During the 1960’s, Jimmie Lee Jackson tried registering to vote multiple times without success in Marion Alabama. These experiences activated him to take up the cause for the right to vote. His efforts, and finally his murder, led to a march which resulted in Bloody Sunday in
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