October 25, 2022 - 3:39 pm
91.3 KBCS · 91.3KBCS 20221025 KUOW Staff Picket For Higher Wages Public radio personalities, reporters and producers are putting up a fight for better pay. KBCS’s Yuko Kodama reports from Seattle’s University District.
October 19, 2022 - 7:03 pm
91.3 KBCS · 91.3KBCS 20221019 CIDs Challenges With Public Safety Last week, King County scrapped their plans for a homeless shelter expansion on the edge of Seattle’s Chinatown International District (CID). Listen to why elders from the CID came out in numbers to protest another homeless shelter in this neighborhood and what they demand now.
October 12, 2022 - 2:12 pm
KBCS highlights a progressive approach to teaching college writing classes. A method of teaching college level writing titled Anti-racist Writing Assessment Ecology was adopted by 62 faculty at 30 out of the 34 Washington community college and technical colleges (at the time we were working on this story). The methodology is meant to address and minimize what some educators are considering a culturally colonized education environment.
Dr. Asao Inoue is a Professor of Rhetoric and Composition in the College of Integrative Sciences and Arts at Arizona State University. He developed the Anti-racist Writing Assessment Ecology and wrote the book, Writing Assessment, Social Justice, and The Advancement of Opportunity. Dr. Inoue talked about the approach and what inspired him to create it.
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October 4, 2022 - 4:13 pm
Dear Friends of KBCS, Despite the warmer than normal weather and the disheartening lack of rain we are experiencing here in the Pacific Northwest; the cool nights, the changing foliage, and of course, the calendar on the wall still remind us that fall has arrived. This beautiful time of the year heralds our annual fall
September 26, 2022 - 11:41 am
91.3 KBCS · 91.3KBCS 20220926 Protest In Solidarity With Women In Iran Hundreds gathered in Bellevue over the weekend to protest in solidarity with women in Iran. KBCS was there and gathered voices and sounds from the event.
"immigrants" by thatgirl is licensed under CC BY-NC 2.0
September 14, 2022 - 7:28 am
Imagine being a US Citizen and being deported to a country where you don’t know anyone. This happened in the 1930’s here in America.
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photo credit: Nate Gowdy
July 12, 2022 - 10:00 am
The House Select January 6th committee completed their eighth hearing this month. More hearings and an initial report is in the works for September, as the group continues to investigate the event. Nate Gowdy is a local documentary photographer whose work has graced the cover of Time magazine. He’s been photographing the Trump campaigns and
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photo credit: Hey Paul Studios
June 24, 2022 - 10:49 am
91.3 KBCS · 91.3KBCS 20220624 Marcy Bloom Former ED Of Aradia Clinic Marcy Bloom is the former Executive Director of Aradia Women’s Health Center, a feminist, women’s clinic which operated in Seattle from 1972 until 2007. According to the Seattle Times, over 70,000 abortions had been performed at Aradia Women’s Health Center during its
June 17, 2022 - 9:50 am
91.3 KBCS · 91.3KBCS 20220617 Juneteenth Historical Details After much discussion, Congress passed legislation to establish Juneteenth as a national holiday. President Joe Biden signed the bill on June 17, 2021. This KBCS audio excerpt explores important details about Juneteenth and what happened on June 19, 1865. KBCS’s Kevin Henry speaks with Kwami Abdul-Bey a
photo credit: Nate Gowdy
June 15, 2022 - 7:03 am
Since 2015, local photographer, Nate Gowdy has been working on a personal project to document the Trump era’s political campaigns and culture. On 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 shared his experiences with KBCS’s Yuko Kodama within a week after the event.
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