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  Seattle Now

  Seattle City Council bans caste discrimination

  A new ordinance from the Seattle City Council wants to ban caste discrimination. The legislation is off to Mayor Bruce Harrell to sign. If he does, Seattle would be the first city to add caste to a list of protected classes. Councilmember Kshama Sawant, a bill sponsor, says it's a simple question. Should discrimination based on caste be allowed to continue in Seattle? But, critics of the ordinance say the current discrimination law should be enough. Sital Kalantry, a Seattle University law professor, is here to help us untangle the ordinance.
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  KUOW Newsroom

  Seattle's civil rights laws don't protect against caste discrimination — but they soon could

  In the Seattle area’s South Asian Community there is a growing concern of discrimination based on a person’s caste. City councilmember Kshama Sawant aims to expand the city’s civil rights measures to address this.
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  KUOW Newsroom

  Lawsuit challenges Seattle's graffiti ordinance

  Four people have filed a complaint against the city of Seattle after being arrested and jailed in 2021 for writing easy-to-clean political messages on temporary barricades outside of the Seattle Police East Precinct. They allege the city's anti-graffiti ordinance is an unconstitutional violation of free speech.
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  The FBI monitored Aretha Franklin's role in the civil rights movement for years

  The agency surveilled Franklin and those around her to gauge how deeply she was involved in organizations tied to Communism, the civil rights movement and the Black Power movement.

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  Josephine Baker is the first Black woman to be inducted into France's Pantheon

  The trailblazing U.S.-born star and civil rights activist was given France's highest honor on Tuesday when she was inducted into the Pantheon. She first achieved fame in Paris in the 1920s.

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  Facebook will examine whether it treats Black users differently

  Black users, and even some of the company's own employees, have accused the social media giant of racial bias for years.

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  Speakers Forum

  Sasha Issenberg tells the surprising story of how marriage equality was won

  It has been just over six years since the Obergefell v. Hodges ruling. In his new, exhaustively researched book The Engagement: America’s Quarter-Century Struggle Over Same-Sex Marriage, author Sasha Issenberg shares many of the stories and successful strategies that led to marriage equality.
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  Senate Democrats Urge Google To Investigate Racial Bias In Its Tools And The Company

  The senators say products like Google Search and YouTube may "perpetuate racist stereotypes" and the tech giant may not be a safe workplace for Black employees.

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  Speakers Forum

  Race, reckoning, and redemption: Michael Eric Dyson’s message to White America

  “How far are we willing to go? Are we prepared to sacrifice tradition and convention for genuine transformation?”
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  The Record

  January 20 | Can we find unity in a Biden Presidency?

  President Joe Biden stated a need for unity in his inaugural address. He assured the nation of examples of unity, 'enough of us have come together to carry all of us forward' he said. We speak with former policy advisor Eric Liu about how we move forward. A conversation on a civil right probe in special education at Seattle Public Schools. And we learn more about an investigation on abuse and coercion by a local artist Raz Simone.

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