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July 12, 2019 - 1:09 am

Over 700 Lights for Liberty events across the United States and in a couple of dozen countries were planned on Friday, July 12th, to protest concentration camps at the US southern border. Other significant protests within the past few months were one in Crystal Springs, Texas, and Fort Sill Oklahoma. These were both on or

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July 4, 2019 - 12:17 pm

July 4th is a federally recognized holiday, observing the day North American colonists formally adopted the Declaration of Independence from Britain. Makah tribal member, Cynthia Savini shares the complex indigenous relationship with this holiday, with KBCS’s Yuko Kodama. 0:00 Music and ideas 91.3 KBCS Bellevue, a listener supported public service of Bellevue College online at

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July 4, 2019 - 10:54 am

Indigefy: Definition of Resilience highlights the dynamic stories of Native American hip-hop MCs.

July 2, 2019 - 8:44 am

The NAACP’s first Mississippi field secretary, Medgar Evers was a civil rights leader who organized voter-registration efforts, economic boycotts, and investigated crimes perpetrated against blacks in the south.

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June 25, 2019 - 4:38 pm

Progressive Talk show host, Thom Hartmann spoke at Town Hall Seattle about the Hidden History of Guns and the Second Amendment on June 23rd.  Here is the full recording from the event.

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June 19, 2019 - 4:42 pm

In May, the wreckage of the last slave ship to the United States was confirmed found off the shores of Mobile Alabama.  Attorney, Justice, and Historian, Karlos Finley, explains the significance of the slaveship, Clotilda, for the descendants of those enslaved people transported here inside it  in 1860. Finley also describes the remarkable community that many of the people who came on that ship created in Africa Town, Alabama.

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June 13, 2019 - 9:10 pm

Are you, or someone you know navigating the preteen or the teen girl?  Julie Metzger is a Pediatric Nurse and Founder of Great Conversations.  Metzger has been providing programs on the topic of sex, puberty and growing up for over 30 years.  She speaks with KBCS’s Yuko Kodama about what puberty brings to a girl’s

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June 7, 2019 - 2:31 pm

The First Friday of June is Gun Violence Awareness Day. Trese Todd, Everytown Survivors Network Fellow and a Co-lead for the North Seattle Group of Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense Washington State Chapter speaks with KBCS’s Yuko Kodama about the latest on the implementation of Extreme Risk Protection Orders, a law which passed in

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June 6, 2019 - 6:41 pm

Some fresh schedule updates are on the way in time for summer.

KBCS’ premier Latin music program ¡Sabor! gains an hour, extending to 7pm, to be followed by a one hour preview of Nothing But Nineties, with host Niko.

Later in the month, The Living The Blues crew slides into Wednesdays, bringing blues to help you get through. Chairman Moe pogos over to Saturdays, adding his ’80s party to the mix.

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June 4, 2019 - 12:26 pm

Crack cocaine, swept throughout the US in the 1980s as an inexpensive and easily accessible drug.  Neighborhoods and families were severely impacted by this epidemic. Aaron Dixon, the former Seattle Chapter Captain for the Black Panther Party, is writing a book on the impact of crack cocaine on black communities. Dixon describes how large amounts

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