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  World

  This WWII battle wasn't against Nazis. It was between Black and white GIs in England

  It's the 80th anniversary of a little-known battle — by Black U.S. soldiers against segregation in the military. They were convicted of mutiny. Villagers in England want them exonerated.

  • Lauren Frayer
  • Fatima Al-Kassab
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  National

  Lucille Bridges, Mother Of Anti-Segregation Icon Ruby Bridges, Dies At 86

  In 1960, she braved death threats and racial epithets to accompany her daughter to the all-white William Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans, desegregating the school.

  • Scott Neuman
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  National

  Alabama Gov. Apologizes To Surviving '5th Girl' Of 1963 KKK Bombing

  "There should be no question that Ms. Collins Rudolph and the families of those who perished ... suffered an egregious injustice that has yielded untold pain and suffering over the ensuing decades."

  • Vanessa Romo
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  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.

  • Deborah Wang
  • Alec Cowan
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  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.

  • John O'Brien
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  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...

  • Bill Radke
  • Adwoa Gyimah-Brempong
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  ‘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...

  • Carlin Bills
  • Jessie Nguyen
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  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...

  • Ann Dornfeld
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  The government engineered Seattle's racial segregation, says researcher

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

  • Ann Dornfeld