Black History Month 2019: are we moving forward or sliding back?
Where the month fits into America’s long history with race. Renton’s school levies passed, but may still fail? Are benzos the new opioids? And is it just me, or are things a lot more problematic these days?
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Derrick Johnson, President of the NAACP
On the first day of February, the second black candidate entered the 2020 presidential race. Later that same day, a blackface scandal erupted that still threatens to consume Virginia’s top leadership. This Black History Month has felt like two steps forward and two steps back, says NAACP president Derrick Johnson. He told Ross Reynolds why he thinks civic engagement is the best way to tip the scales in favor of forward progress.
Renton school levies
A couple of weeks ago, we talked about Seattle’s school levies, both of which passed. A bond passed with a majority of voters in Renton as well. But it’s not going into effect… because turnout was too low. So what happens now? Dahlia Bazzaz is the Seattle Times’ education reporter.
Benzo crisis
The opioid epidemic has been in the news for years as a crisis. But right next to it is one you might not know about: benzos. Benzodiazepines such as Xanax, Ativan, and Valium are widely prescribed – and benzo-involved overdose deaths have increased eightfold between 1999 and 2016. Why? We asked Shilo Jama from The People’s Harm Reduction Alliance, and Dr. Richard Ries, who’s director of the Addictions Division at UW Medicine and Harborview.
SoundQs: Seattle complainers, explained.
Seattleites love to complain. Especially about the complaining style of others. That’s the subject of the latest episode of KUOW’s SoundQs, the podcast fueled by listener curiosity. Bill Radke was joined by the host and producer of the show, Deborah Wang and Caroline Chamberlain-Gomez.
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Bill Radke
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Bill hosts Week In Review and Words in Review. After starting with KUOW as a University of Washington student in 1985, Bill was KUOW's morning host in the '90s and the creator of past show, Rewind, a news-satire show heard on KUOW and nationwide on NPR. Bill moved away to Southern California to host American Public Media's Weekend America and Marketplace Morning Report and returned to KUOW in 2012.
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