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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Every year the Citizen University conference takes place in Seattle. Civic-minded people from around the country gather to make connections, listen and…
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In a recent double bill, journalist Matt Taibbi joined author and anti-poverty advocate Joel Berg to discuss what happened in our recent presidential…
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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…