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Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women 6 – Women Are Water Carriers

The Prayer Skirt, a long skirt adorned with ribbons, is ceremonial regalia for the Plains tribes. During the demonstration against the Dakota Access Pipeline at Standing Rock, indigenous women of many different tribes began to wear the prayer skirt at ceremony in solidarity with the Plains Tribes women. Prayer skirts, have also been adopted into

Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women 5 – Kristen Millares Young’s Investigative Article

Misty Upham was a successful indigenous actress from the Blackfeet Nation, winning roles alongside stars like Benicio Del Torro in the Cannes Film Festival acclaimed Jimmy P: Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian, and Ewan MacGregor in August: Osage county. Misty Upham also went missing on October 5th 2014. Her body was found in Auburn, Washington

Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women 4 – A Story of a Missing Aunt

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. KBCS’s Yuko Kodama

Unmute the Commute: Super Commuters

A growing number of people in Western Washington are commuting for more than an hour and a half to work. We follow one of these journeys on today’s Unmute the Commute.

Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women 2 – Prayer Skirt Sewing Circle

Indigenous women have taken the lead in increasing awareness of the high numbers of their sisters who go missing and die to violence. KBCS’s Yuko Kodama takes you to a red skirt sewing circle, a community building event which builds support for, honors, and assists in the healing of the community mourning their missing and

Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women 1 – What’s Needed

Roxanne White, of the Yakama, Nez Perce, Nooksack and Gros Ventre tribes, is an activist who advocates for the families of missing and murdered women (MMIW). KBCS’s Yuko Kodama spoke with White about the MMIW movement at an indigenous prayer skirt sewing circle organized as a community building event in honor of Missing and Murdered

Unmute the Commute: Biker, Lawyer… Bike Lawyer

Over the last four years, deaths of pedestrians and bicyclists in Washington State have doubled. This comes at a time when the state wants to get to zero traffic fatalities by the year 2030. So, how do we get there? We talk to Seattle bike lawyer Bob Anderton to hear one proposal. Produced by Jennie

Seattle Youth Climate Strike

On Friday, March 15th, 2019, hundreds of thousands of youth all over the world left school to participate in a global youth climate strike. Youth Climate Strikes took place in over 1,300 locations across 98 countries according to CBS News. The strike was inspired by 16 year old, Greta Thunberg of Sweden, who opted out

African-American Suffragettes of 1913

What do the recent Women’s Marches and the Women’s Suffrage March of 1913 have in common? Racial controversy. Listen in on what it took for people with intersectional identities to fight for the right to vote.

Unmute the Commute: I Believe You Can Do More

Each week, power lifter Mark Bryant puts down his weights and teaches a senior fitness class.