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March 22, 2018 - 11:25 am

Yes! Magazine’s Bailey Williams speaks with Josue Rivas, an award winning photographer and film director, who specializes in challenging the main stream narrative of indigenous people.  In Yes! Magazine’s Spring 2018 “decolonize” issue, he published a photo essay about his time at Standing Rock. In this interview, Rivas reflects on his time at Standing Rock and discusses his larger project, titled “Standing Strong”.

Read More about Yes! Magazine: Native Photographer Reflects on His Time at Standing Rock

March 20, 2018 - 12:15 am

Maru Mora-Villalpando is an Undocumented Immigrant rights Activist, founder of NWDC Resistance and #Not1More Deportation. In January, 2018, she was served a letter from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) ordering her to appear in immigration court at an unspecified date. Then, in February, 2018, the Washington State Department of Licensing (DOL) admitted that it furnished records to a request from ICE about Mora-Villalpando and other undocumented Washington residents. KBCS’s Yuko Kodama spoke with Mora-Villalpando last month about her experience with the DOL and how she expects the state to respond to the DOL’s actions.

Read More about Maru Mora-Villalpando: The Department of Licensing and ICE

March 12, 2018 - 2:22 pm

Now we meet some women who have a hard hitting way of combating gender norms. KBCS’s Anjali Skilton has the story about women who box.

Read More about Women Boxers

March 12, 2018 - 2:20 pm

Sometimes confused with the Blue Jay, meet the Stellar’s Jay, who can mimic others and likes to play. KBCS’s Yuko Kodama and Ed Dominguez, Seward Park Audubon Center Lead Naturalist, hiked the trails of Seward Park and came across the local bird with a playful side.

Read More about Nature: Steller’s Jay

March 12, 2018 - 10:50 am

Several political leaders and activists from the civil rights movement commemorated Bloody Sunday in Selma Alabama Sunday with a Jubilee and a march across the Edmond Pettis Bridge. Before the commemorative march across the bridge Rev. Dr. William Barber spoke about the state of civil rights today in front of Browns Chapel where the original march in 1965 started from. KBCS’s Ruth Bly was there with Project Pilgrimage.

Read More about Sankofa Impact: Dr. William Barber at the Selma, Bloody Sunday 50th Anniversary

March 7, 2018 - 12:40 am

20 days, 20 different commutes. Today’s Unmute the Commute is brought to us by producer Jennie Cecil Moore.

Read More about Unmute the Commute: The Commute Challenge

March 6, 2018 - 2:40 pm

The newest hunger strike at Tacoma’s immigration detention center started  February, 2018.  KBCS’s Yuko Kodama speaks with Maru Mora Villalpando, community organizer of Northwest Detention Center Resistance, about conditions inside the Northwest Detention Center, for its detainees.

Read More about Hunger Strike in Effect at Tacoma’s Northwest Detention Center

March 6, 2018 - 1:44 pm

We meet some people who do a special kind of rescue work. Serenity Equine Rescue’s Patricia Clark, speaks with KBCS’s Judy Lindsay about her experience saving animals from hoarders.

Read More about Rescue of Hoarded Animals

March 1, 2018 - 11:26 am

KBCS’s Yuko Kodama recently spoke with Maru Mora Villalpando, community organizer of Northwest Detention Center Resistance and activist and organizer for #Not1More Deportation, about immigration issues and Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA).

Read More about Activist Reflects on Immigration Issues and DACA

February 27, 2018 - 12:39 pm

Musician, Author and Theologian, Reverend Osagyefo Uhuru Sekou was arrested for praying in front of Ferguson, Missouri riot police, in 2014 during the protests for slain teenager, Michael Brown. He shares that story with KBCS’s Yuko Kodama.

Read More about Reverend Sekou – a story from Ferguson, Missouri