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  KUOW Newsroom

  3 Seattle activists on the city's future for #BlackLivesMatter

  It’s been six weeks since protests started in Seattle, after the police killing of George Floyd. Now leaders of the local movement for racial justice are calling for changes to combat police brutality and systemic racism. Here's what they see next.
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  The Record

  How slavery and the confederacy show up on the Washington state map

  King County is now named for the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. – but that didn’t happen without a fight.
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  Seattle Now

  Seattle Now: 'We have to take advantage' of this moment

  The movement for equal justice has people in power talking about community-led change. We talk with one organizer and youth mentor who's been trying to wedge through that door for years.
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  Seattle Protests for Civil Rights

  The final days for CHOP — but not the end of a Seattle movement against racism, police violence

  Although the area formerly known as the Capitol Hill Occupied Protest (CHOP) has been dismantled, protesters say the movement fueling the occupation is far from over.

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  Seattle Protests for Civil Rights

  Photos: Final moments of the CHOP as police clear the area

  "A lot of people think CHOP was a place," said David Lewis. "Capitol Hill was just where this movement started. We are CHOP. That is not CHOP."

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  KUOW Newsroom

  What Andre Taylor sees, and hopes to prevent, in the CHOP

  ‘If you are challenging systems because of Black bodies, well, Black bodies have been killed in your area.’
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  KUOW Newsroom

  Boeing says racism won't be tolerated. But will it be driven off the shop floor?

  A week ago racist symbols appeared on a black manager’s desk at Boeing in Everett. Boeing says it fires people who do that. But in the wake George Floyd’s workers are saying Boeing needs to do more.
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  Coronavirus In Seattle

  Summer forecast for Washington state: pandemic blues, frustration over racism, and social change?

  This could be a long, hard summer, according to mental health experts. Take the Covid-19 pandemic, and layer it over the much longer-running pain of racism.
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  KUOW Newsroom

  'I can't breathe': A 2nd-grader. A security guard. A Seattle school.

  The Seattle School Board has voted to suspend the placement of police in schools in response to police brutality, especially against Black people and children. Security guards, however, far outnumber cops in Seattle schools. Some say the district should also reexamine the way it uses security guards to police student behavior - even in the youngest grades.
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  Seattle Now

  Seattle Now: Police reform tested in Tacoma

  Before George Floyd, there was Manny Ellis. He died in police custody in early March, his family wants answers and Washington's new police accountability law was supposed to help. So far, it hasn't.

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