civil rights

Last week was the 50th anniversary of Robert F. Kennedy's assassination. Bobby Kennedy was remembered as a civil rights advocate, but it's more…

Seattle lost a civil rights icon this weekend.The Reverend Dr. Samuel B. McKinney died Saturday. He was 91. KUOW's Marcie Sillman spoke with arts advocate…

Fifty years ago today, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was murdered on a balcony in Memphis, Tennessee. Decades later, a motion passed in the King…

The family of Che Taylor has filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against the city of Seattle and the police officers who shot him.Plainclothes officers…

The political climate in the United States is marked by ultra-partisanship. So it’s a good time to ask, how’s the Constitution holding up? A recent event…

Journalist and author Naomi Klein is famous for her 2007 book, “The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism.” The shock she explored there was the…

Every year the Citizen University conference takes place in Seattle. Civic-minded people from around the country gather to make connections, listen and…

In a recent double bill, journalist Matt Taibbi joined author and anti-poverty advocate Joel Berg to discuss what happened in our recent presidential…

Patricia Lally was on the bus going downtown from her West Seattle home when a man began uttering racially offensive statements.“And I found myself so…