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March 11, 2022 - 3:53 am

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 families impacted by this and how are our communities coming together to help?

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March 3, 2022 - 1:13 pm

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

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March 1, 2022 - 4:51 am

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.

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February 21, 2022 - 12:09 pm

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

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February 18, 2022 - 1:54 pm

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

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February 18, 2022 - 7:42 am

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

Read More about Who Helped When We Were Incarcerated

February 4, 2022 - 7:16 am

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

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February 3, 2022 - 9:13 am

(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 Selma, Alabama during 1965.

Read More about Sankofa Impact – Jimmie Lee Jackson and the Fight for the Right to Vote

January 27, 2022 - 6:54 am

91.3 KBCS · Dr. David Buscher on Environmental Science with a Comment on Addiction Dr. David Buscher is a Medical Doctor in Environmental Science; the study of the interactions between the environment and human health.  He describes his experiences working with patients alongside Dr. Theron Randolph, the father of Environmental Medicine. Producer: Yuko Kodama

January 21, 2022 - 2:51 pm

91.3 KBCS · 91.3KBCS 20220121 Michelle Williams Clark On Youth And Mental Health 1 Michelle Williams-Clark is the Eastside Youth Coalition Founder and Executive Director.  The organization is committed to providing Black, Latinx, Youth Of Color with racially and culturally relevant programs, in a safe community where their lives are valued.  Williams-Clark describes how the

Read More about Black Youth Mental Health