#raceandequity — Public Fediverse posts

As Seattleites celebrate Juneteenth this week, America’s upcoming 250th birthday highlights a contradiction at the nation’s founding: The United States of America was not a free country for all at the time.
https://www.kuow.org/stories/seattle-juneteenth-celebrations-put-america-s-250th-birthday-in-perspective
#KUOW #News #WorldCup #Sports #RaceAndEquity #Sports

This Friday, Seattle hosts its second World Cup match. Friday is also Juneteenth, the federal holiday that commemorates the emancipation of enslaved Black people in the United States.
https://www.kuow.org/stories/seattle-to-honor-juneteenth-with-world-cup-match
#KUOW #News #WorldCup #Sports #RaceAndEquity #Sports

Civil rights leader Rev. Jesse Jackson died Tuesday.
In a statement reported by NPR, Jackson's family said, "Our father was a servant leader — not only to our family, but to the oppressed, the voiceless, and the overlooked around the world. We shared him with the world, and in return, the world became part of our extended family."
https://www.kuow.org/stories/jesse-jackson-we-ve-gone-from-picking-cotton-balls-to-picking-footballs
#KUOW #News #CivilRights #RaceAndEquity #RaceAndIdentity #BlackLivesMatter

Before Seattle Public School spent $300 million to rebuild Rainier Beach High School on a peat bog, scientists hired by the district warned that methane in the soil could pose an explosive problem if it were to leak into the school.
https://www.kuow.org/stories/seattle-schools-knew-there-was-methane-gas-beneath-its-new-high-school-but-skipped-some-safety-measures
#KUOW #News #Health #Education #Environment #Education #KidsAndParenting #Seattle #Race #Safety #RaceAndEquity #SeattlePublicSchools

Internal City of Seattle communications leaked to KUOW show that officials planned to withhold some environmental concerns from the public and federal regulators regarding Sound Transit’s planned West Seattle Link light rail extension.
https://www.kuow.org/stories/city-planned-to-withhold-environmental-concerns-about-west-seattle-light-rail-from-regulators-and-the-public
#KUOW #News #Transportation #SoundTransit #Salmon #WestSeattle #Government #RaceAndEquity #Seattle #Environment #Race #Business

Rumors had been rampant on social media about increased immigration action and arrests in Washington state. Much of those fears have been stoked by the Trump administration.
https://www.kuow.org/stories/video-appears-to-show-ice-agents-targeting-latinos-in-washington-state-but-are-mass-deportations-coming
#KUOW #News #Government #TrumpAndTheNorthwest #Race #RaceAndEquity #Deportation #RaceAndIdentity #Immigration #Government

The next president of the University of Washington says the school's values won't change — even as the Trump administration targests diversity, equity, and inclusion programs on college
https://www.kuow.org/stories/incoming-uw-president-promises-continued-focus-on-dei-despite-trump-s-threats
#KUOW #News #Education #RaceAndEquity #College #Education #Diversity #UniversityOfWashington

A majority of Washington Tribes have come out against Initiative 2117, which would repeal the state’s Climate Commitment Act if approved by voters on the November general election ballot.
https://www.kuow.org/stories/majority-of-washington-tribes-oppose-effort-to-gut-climate-commitment-act
#KUOW #News #Tribes #RaceAndEquity #Government

Federal prosecutors in Seattle have indicted two men on rarely used racketeering charges, related to a series of violent home robberies throughout Western Washington targeting Asian Americans in 2022. They said the charges follow a lengthy investigation across multiple jurisdictions that remains ongoing.
https://www.kuow.org/stories/two-men-face-rico-charges-for-violent-home-robberies-in-western-washington-that-targeted-asian-americans
#KUOW #News #RaceAndEquity #Crime #SouthSeattle #LawAndCourts

One issue: DCYF’s transfer of 43 men in their early 20s from Green Hill to an adult prison.
https://www.kuow.org/stories/juvenile-rehab-conflict-lands-dcyf-in-multiple-courts
#KUOW #News #Race #Crime #RaceAndEquity #LawAndCourts #KingCounty #KidsAndParenting

The King County Council will consider its official stance on jailing some youths for serious crimes, four years after Executive Dow Constantine pledged to end juvenile detention.
https://www.kuow.org/stories/king-county-council-will-consider-its-official-stance-on-the-future-of-the-yo
#KUOW #News #Seattle #Corrections #KingCounty #Crime #KidsAndParenting #JuvenileCrime #DowConstantine #Race #RaceAndEquity

This summer the GOOD Neighbor League was announced, a plan for eight semi-professional teams focused in southeast Seattle neighborhoods.
https://www.kuow.org/stories/new-seattle-semi-pro-league-takes-a-swing-at-baseball-s-lack-of-diversity
#KUOW #News #Seattle #RaceAndEquity #Sports

A $16 million effort by King County to send most juvenile criminal cases to community-based diversion programs, rather than the court system, is having trouble meeting its goals, a county report shows.
https://www.kuow.org/stories/community-diversion-program-for-youths-struggles-to-meet-goals
#KUOW #News #Police #JuvenileCrime #KidsAndParenting #Crime #Race #KingCounty #Corrections #RaceAndEquity

The Washington State Department of Corrections has recently attempted to standardize how prisoner-led cultural groups operate. Advocates say this has eclipsed prisoners’ ability to organize cultural awareness courses and events, undermining what little self-determination they can exercise on the inside.
https://www.kuow.org/stories/prisoner-led-cultural-groups-in-washington-say-they-ve-been-sidelined
#KUOW #News #RaceAndIdentity #RaceAndEquity

House Bill 1579 would establish a unit within the Washington State Attorney General’s office to pursue charges against police officers accused of misusing deadly force.
https://www.kuow.org/stories/does-washington-state-need-an-independent-prosecutor-to-charge-police-with-misusing-deadly-force
#KUOW #News #WashingtonStateLegislature #LawAndCourts #RaceAndEquity #Police #Police

"X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X," premiers on the West Coast at the Seattle Opera this month. Originally staged in 1985, the production was revitalized by a new production by the Metropolitan Opera in New York in 2023. Opening night is Saturday, Feb. 24.
https://www.kuow.org/stories/seattle-opera-brings-the-uncomfortable-truth-of-malcolm-x-to-the-stage
#KUOW #News #RaceAndEquity #Arts #Theater #CivilRights

Detainees at the Northwest ICE Processing Center in Tacoma were subjected to tear gas, had guns pointed at them, and were physically restrained during a hunger strike last year for better living conditions.
https://www.kuow.org/stories/video-shows-heavily-armed-guards-detaining-hunger-strikers-at-tacoma-ice-center-after-using-tear-gas
#KUOW #News #ImmigrationAndCustomsEnforcement #Protests #RaceAndEquity #Race

RadioActive's Gavin Muhlfelder has different experiences with racism than his twin brother, James.
https://www.kuow.org/stories/black-white-seattleite-my-family-s-experience-being-mixed-race-in-seattle
#KUOW #News #Radioactive #YouthProduced #Race #RaceAndEquity