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Tonya Mosley

Stories

  • caption: As part of a Seattle Public Schools program, students were bused from different neighborhoods to improve racial mixes.

    Busing Blues: When Seattle Sent Black Kids To White North End

    From 1978, when the busing program started, to 1999, when it was shelved, minorities carried the burden of busing, piling onto buses from the South End and the Central Area that were headed for predominantly white schools in the North End.
  • caption: Benita Thomas, right, described what led her to the decision to move away from Seattle in Tonya Mosley's first piece in the Black in Seattle series.

    Response To 'Black In Seattle: Struggling To Stay Connected'

    Tonya Mosley's Black in Seattle series on KUOW immediately struck a chord with her first piece that asked a fraught question: Where are the black people? For a large and progressive metro area, Seattle actually lags behind other cities and the country as a whole in its black population.