This pioneer worked the Underground Railroad — and founded Seattle's Black Central District In the early days, they called him Big Bill the Cook. Isolde Raftery Play AudioListen 7 mins
Proposed statue swap of Billy Frank for Marcus Whitman signals changing of the guard Leaders of seven Pacific Northwest tribes testified this week in favor of replacing a statue of Oregon Trail pioneer and missionary Marcus Whitman in... Tom Banse Play AudioListen 5 mins
Washington's museums vs the pandemic One thing you’ve rarely been able to do since last March is visit a museum. For the most part, museums have been shuttered since the pandemic started. But almost all museums, big and small, expect to reopen. Meanwhile, they’re learning new tricks. Ross Reynolds Play AudioListen 4 mins
How a UW course captured the impact of an unprecedented year Reflections on 2020 help point to bridges forward John O'Brien Play AudioListen 2 hours
MLB Recognizes Negro Leagues As 'Major League' — Correcting A 'Longtime Oversight' "All of us who love baseball have long known that the Negro Leagues produced many of our game's finest players, innovations and triumphs against the backdrop of injustice," said the MLB commissioner. Brakkton Booker
Johns Hopkins, Long Believed An Abolitionist, Actually Owned Slaves, University Says Researchers found census records showing the entrepreneur and philanthropist owned slaves as late as 1850, contrary to the long-held belief that his family freed all slaves when he was a boy. Jaclyn Diaz
Opinion: Remembering Jan Morris, Historian and Writer NPR's Scott Simon remembers historian and travel writer Jan Morris, who died yesterday at the age of 94. Scott Simon Play AudioListen 3 mins
U.S. Statue Removals Inspire Indigenous People In Latin America To Topple Monuments The latest target was a statue of Sebastián de Belalcázar, a Spanish conquistador who founded two Colombian cities and led a military campaign that killed and enslaved thousands of Indigenous people. John Otis
Bonsai tree exhibit offers novel take on 75th anniversary of end of World War II One of the more unusual ways the 75th anniversary of the end of World War II is being marked this summer is with an exhibit of stunted trees. They’re bonsai trees on display at the Pacific Bonsai Museum in Federal Way, Washington. Tom Banse
A conversation with one of the last survivors of the 6888th -- the only Black women's unit to serve overseas in WW2 KUOW's Angela King talks with one of the last surviving members of a little-known but important WWII Army unit -- the all-Black women's 6888th, commonly called the Six Triple Eight. Angela King Play AudioListen 8 mins
