Laura Ferri
November 16, 2022 - 11:48 pm
91.3 KBCS · 91.3KBCS 20221117 The Ruins Of Memory Women’s Voices Of The Holocaust The performance, The Ruins of Memory: Women’s Voices of the Holocaust highlights the experiences of Jewish women throughout the European continent who navigated their way through a horrific time in the 20th century. It’s performed by Tales of the Alchemysts Theatre
Michelle Myles
November 13, 2022 - 10:43 pm
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Lois with drum
November 6, 2022 - 10:02 pm
91.3 KBCS · 91.3KBCS 20221104 Lois Landgrebe Lushootseed Language Warriors Lushootseed is the language spoken by Coast Salish tribes in the greater Seattle region. In 1819, Congress passed the Civilization Fund Act to assimilate indigenous youth to western culture. The policy authorized forcible separation of indigenous children from their families to be sent to boarding
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November 4, 2022 - 2:02 pm
91.3 KBCS · 91.3KBCS 20221104 Dr. Hendricks A New York Times article from April titled “The Growing Religious Fervor in the American Right” is about the increase in Christian prayer, music and rituals incorporated into right-wing conservative rallies. The challengers of laws to protect abortion and LGBTQ communities often put forth particular beliefs they
Read More about Christian Rhetoric in Politics: Dr. Obery Hendricks
October 31, 2022 - 10:16 am
91.3 KBCS · 91.3KBCS 20221031 Chinese Reconciliation And Walk Against Racism On Saturday, Hundreds of people walked from Tacoma’s Tollefson Plaza to the Chinese Reconciliation Park for the annual Walk for Reconciliation Against Racism. The event was to observe the day about 200 Chinese residents in the Tacoma area were forcibly removed in 1885. KBCS’s
Read More about Expulsion of Tacoma’s Chinese Residents in 1885
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.
Read More about Taking the Racism Out of Teaching English Writing
Dana Buckingham KBCS GM
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.
