KUOW Newsroom Seattle Audubon hatches new name: Birds Connect Seattle The Seattle Audubon is changing its name to Birds Connect Seattle. They want to step away from a name with a racist legacy.
Soundside Representation sold separately: New American Girl dolls overlook Seattle's diversity For Soundside producer Noel Gasca, two new American Girl dolls prompted her to think about who gets to represent Seattle — even in doll form — and reexamine her own relationship with her favorite childhood toy.
KUOW Newsroom 'Sacred ground': Why Camp Minidoka's survivors say 'no' to this windfarm Many Japanese Americans who were incarcerated during World War 2 at a federal camp in Minidoka, Idaho are opposing a wind farm project near the campsite. Over 13,000 people were imprisoned there, many were from the Seattle area.
KUOW Newsroom Black-led nonprofits need volunteers. This local newspaper is helping As the pandemic eases, Seattle’s nonprofits are coming back to work in person. Some don’t have the volunteer staff to match demand, and the support they received at the height of the pandemic isn’t what it used to be.
Seattle Now Birth support for Black and Native families in King County Having a baby carries a lot of risk. But it’s even riskier for Black and Native people. Infant mortality for Black and Native people is higher and in our area data shows many of the deaths are concentrated in areas of South King County. Dila Perera is here to explain how her organization tries to help. She’s executive director of Open Arms Perinatal Services which connects people and their newborns to care. We can only make Seattle Now because listeners support us. Make the show happen by making a gift to KUOW: https://www.kuow.org/donate/seattlenow And we want to hear from you! Follow us on Instagram at SeattleNowPod, or leave us feedback online: https://www.kuow.org/feedback Tree Canopy Report: https://seattle.gov/documents/Departments/OSE/Urban%20Forestry/2021%20Tree%20Canopy%20Assessment%20Report_FINAL_230227.pdf
KUOW Newsroom Proposed WA bill would raise threshold for farmworker overtime This is the second year that farmworkers will be eligible for overtime. Right now, if they work past 48 hours they’ll get paid time and half. Next year they’ll be the same as everyone else - anything past 40 hours would count as overtime. But there’s new proposed legislation in Olympia that is trying to re-negotiate that.
KUOW Newsroom Legalizing jaywalking to reduce enforcement inequities considered at Washington statehouse Racial and social justice advocates asked Washington legislators Wednesday to repeal laws against jaywalking. However, a bill to do that generated lots of skeptical questions during a state House committee hearing and its prospects are unclear.
KUOW Newsroom Seattle students, teachers rally for more ethnic studies and counselors in schools Some students and educators are pushing Seattle Public Schools to require ethnic studies and Black history classes, increase funding for school counselors, and keep police out of schools, among several other demands as part of Black Lives Matter at School week.
KUOW Newsroom With rulings against racial bias, WA Supreme Court starts 'hard discussions' Over the past five years, the Washington Supreme Court has issued a series of rulings aimed at combating a fraught problem within the legal system — implicit racial bias. The court has relied on a new legal test: whether an “objective observer” could see racial bias as a factor in who gets to serve on juries, who gets convicted — and who wins in court.
KUOW Newsroom Four white men who attacked Black DJ sentenced for federal hate crime in Seattle Four white men were sentenced in federal court in Seattle Friday for a 2018 assault on a Black DJ in the city of Lynnwood. All four were convicted of committing a hate crime and making false statements. The man they attacked said his life is forever changed.