91.3 KBCS · 91.3KBCS 20210304 Excerpts From The NAACP Racial Bias In Healthcare Webinar Racial Bias in healthcare has negatively impacted communities of color since the beginning of U.S. history. Black communities and medical professionals are pushing for reform and cultural change in the healthcare system as we face this world-wide COVID19 pandemic.
91.3 KBCS · 91.3 KBCS 20200228 Densho Project Tom Ikeda And Takeaways From Oral Histories For the past 24 years, Tom Ikeda, the founding Executive Director of Densho and his staff have been conducting oral histories of Japanese Americans who have endured the painful experience of being forcibly removed from their homes and incarcerated en
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91.3 KBCS · 91.3KBCS 20210225 Who Is Targeted For Sex Trafficking In Our Region Danica Childs went missing from Federal Way in 2007. She was 17 years old at the time. KBCS’s Kevin Henry interviews Sarah Childs, Danica’s stepmother about the family’s experience in searching for Danica Childs.
91.3 KBCS · 91.3 KBCS 20200214 Black Hair Kiana Davis is a Renton Technical College adjunct faculty, poet and author working on a project called Unyielding Roots. The project is on hair esteem and self-love amidst a world that doesn’t get your hair culture. (this story originally broadcast in February 14, 2020)
91.3 KBCS · 91.3KBCS 20210223 Demystifying COVID 19 Vaccinations Why did COVID 19 vaccination roll out go so quickly? Should I get vaccinated? Dr. Karla Fuller, Associate Professor of Biology at City University of New York and Project Lead for the National Human Genome Research Institute, shared her perspective on this at a Black Employees
91.3 KBCS · 91.3KBCS 20220228 The 1950s Women – Led Montgomery Bus Boycott the Montgomery Bus Boycott was led by Black women of Montgomery after the court trial of four Montgomery women forced, on separate occasions, to give up their bus seat to a white passenger. This movement ended segregation on buses.
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
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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
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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
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