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Seattle Mayor Jenny A. Durkan says the trauma of systemic racism is real and has inflicted pain on the African American community for generations. She tells host Joni Balter, "If we don't acknowledge that deep, deep truth about our country and its systems, we can't begin to heal." That healing process inched forward as protest leaders met with the Mayor to share concerns about policing and inclusion on the community police commission. Mayor Durkan also agreed it's time to review police crowd control tactics. One of those meeting with the Mayor was Andre Taylor, Executive Director of the racial justice organization Not This Time! But Taylor did not come with a list of demands. He says the current problems are much bigger than the Mayor. He encouraged Black people to stand up, realize their own power and genius and get things done. Taylor also encouraged, what he called, his "White allies" to use their passion and privilege to infiltrate their own communities and work for change.
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Seattle Mayor Jenny A. Durkan says the trauma of systemic racism is real and has inflicted pain on the African American community for generations. She tells host Joni Balter, "If we don't acknowledge that deep, deep truth about our country and its systems, we can't begin to heal." That healing process inched forward as protest leaders met with the Mayor to share concerns about policing and inclusion on the community police commission. Mayor Durkan also agreed it's time to review police crowd control tactics. One of those meeting with the Mayor was Andre Taylor, Executive Director of the racial justice organization Not This Time! But Taylor did not come with a list of demands. He says the current problems are much bigger than the Mayor. He encouraged Black people to stand up, realize their own power and genius and get things done. Taylor also encouraged, what he called, his "White allies" to use their passion and privilege to infiltrate their own communities and work for change.
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Seattle Mayor Jenny A. Durkan says the trauma of systemic racism is real and has inflicted pain on the African American community for generations. She tells host Joni Balter, "If we don't acknowledge that deep, deep truth about our country and its systems, we can't begin to heal." That healing process inched forward as protest leaders met with the Mayor to share concerns about policing and inclusion on the community police commission. Mayor Durkan also agreed it's time to review police crowd control tactics. One of those meeting with the Mayor was Andre Taylor, Executive Director of the racial justice organization Not This Time! But Taylor did not come with a list of demands. He says the current problems are much bigger than the Mayor. He encouraged Black people to stand up, realize their own power and genius and get things done. Taylor also encouraged, what he called, his "White allies" to use their passion and privilege to infiltrate their own communities and work for change.
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Seattle Mayor Jenny A. Durkan says the trauma of systemic racism is real and has inflicted pain on the African American community for generations. She tells host Joni Balter, "If we don't acknowledge that deep, deep truth about our country and its systems, we can't begin to heal." That healing process inched forward as protest leaders met with the Mayor to share concerns about policing and inclusion on the community police commission. Mayor Durkan also agreed it's time to review police crowd control tactics. One of those meeting with the Mayor was Andre Taylor, Executive Director of the racial justice organization Not This Time! But Taylor did not come with a list of demands. He says the current problems are much bigger than the Mayor. He encouraged Black people to stand up, realize their own power and genius and get things done. Taylor also encouraged, what he called, his "White allies" to use their passion and privilege to infiltrate their own communities and work for change.
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The show must go on: Art Zone "Phones It In" with ACT Theatre's Becky Witmer

Nancy Guppy and Becky Witmer

Becky Witmer is a powerhouse visionary that manages A Contemporary Theatre, aka ACT Theatre. She works tirelessly as an arts advocate and is helping lead the way into what Seattle's live theatre scene might look like in the COVID-19 world of face masks and physical distancing.

Class ACT

 

Fighting COVID-19 with King County's front line workers

COVID-19 frontline workers

Get a behind-the-scenes look at the Shoreline Assessment Center and Recovery Center (ACRC), a site that provides free COVID-19 testing and treatment to coronavirus patients who are either homeless or otherwise without access to healthcare.

Front & Center

 

Hop in driver's seat & take a 360-degree tour of Hydroplane & Raceboat Museum

Hydroplane & Raceboat Museum

Rev your engine with a 360-degree tour of the Hydroplane & Raceboat Museum in Kent. Executive Director David Williams highlights a few of the museum’s artifacts, exhibits, and also shares the rich hydroplane racing history in Seattle. 

Take the Tour

 

Seattle in the age of AIDS

Seattle in the age of AIDS

"It was a health crisis, but it was also a civil rights crisis." A time of panic and fear, this documentary from our archives looks back at the onset of the AIDS epidemic in Seattle in the 1980s. The stories are told through the words of a handful of people who lived and worked on the front lines in the community, including the late George Bakan, editor and owner of Seattle Gay News, who passed away earlier this month.

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