In The Netherlands, Santa's Helpers Wear Blackface Marcie Sillman talks with James Kennedy, an American historian who researches Dutch history at the University of Amsterdam, about the history of Zwarte... Matthew Streib
Fred Hutch Seeks African-American Breast Cancer Survivors For Focus Group There’s a racial gap when it comes to how women experience breast cancer. Black women are 40 percent more likely to die from the disease compared to... Ruby de Luna
Seattle Rally: 'It's Hard Being A Black Man In This Country' It's been nearly two weeks since black teenager Michael Brown was fatally shot by a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri. His death touched off a... Posey Gruener
Local Black Teens On Ferguson: 'It's Hard To Talk To People Who Don't Care' Jeannie Yandel speaks with Devan Rogers and Yaninna Sharpley-Travis, two members of Youth Undoing Institutional Racism, about how they interpret the... Matthew Streib
Jimi Hendrix, Seattle And Race In Post-War American Culture David Hyde speaks with cultural historian, musician and writer Peter Bacon Hales about Jimi Hendrix's cover of Bob Dylan's "All Along The Watchtower,"... David Hyde
Could You Describe Your Racial Experience In Six Words? Ross Reynolds speaks with NPR host and special correspondent Michele Norris about her project the Race Card Project. Posey Gruener
Black In Seattle: Video And Tweets From Washington Hall In late October 2013, KUOW aired Tonya Mosley’s four-part series Black in Seattle. The series immediately struck a chord for listeners throughout the Puget Sound area. KUOW
Finding a (Black) man: Dating woes for Seattle's Black women In 2002, Seattle Times columnist Jerry Large wrote about the black experience in Seattle in which black women complained about how few black men there were to date. One woman said, "Seattle is hard on black women's dating aspirations." Tonya Mosley
Black Man, White City: 'It's Unnecessarily Stressful' On a map, Seattle is a blue dot – often described as liberal and tolerant. But it’s not always comfortable for black men who say they experience racial profiling and discrimination. Tonya Mosley
Black In Seattle: 'Perceptions May Be Different Than Reality' What is the black experience in Seattle? Tonya Mosley