Segregation

Arts & Life

How prohibition forever changed policing in Seattle

On a recent SoundQs segment we learned about historic bootlegger Roy Olmstead. Today we do a deep dive on another larger-than-life figure from that time, black business owner Doc Hamilton. Both men dealt in illegal alcohol, but had wholly different experiences with the temperance movement and the law.

Race & Identity

Segregation isn’t in our distant past. In many neighborhoods, it endures

When we think of segregation in the U.S. we often think of the past. We look to post-Civil War history and the Civil Rights movement. The legacy of those events receives due attention, but our history of residential segregation, not so much.

How Martin Luther King Jr.'s legacy lives on in King County

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...

Arts & Life

‘I wasn’t comfortable’: Being a student of color in Garfield High's advanced classes

On the surface, the city of Seattle seems to celebrate diversity, but Seattle's Garfield High School tells a different story. From the effects of...

Where are the black kids in Seattle's gifted program?

When Juanita Ricks’ biracial daughter Alexandra tested into the highly gifted program, Ricks, who is black, and her then-husband, who is white, toured...

The government engineered Seattle's racial segregation, says researcher

Seattle's neighborhoods and suburbs have long been segregated by race.