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Barack Obama calls for action on police brutality and killings, with focus on youth and mayors Jun 05, 2020

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In this event livestreamed on June 3rd, President Obama was joined by former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder; Rashad Robinson of Color of Change; Minneapolis City Council Representative Phillipe Cunningham, and youth leader Playon Patrick. Campaign Zero co-founder Brittany Packnett Cunningham moderated the event. My Brother's Keeper Alliance Executive Director Michael Smith introduced the program.

Have we reached ‘the beginning of the great change?’ This professor is hopeful we have May 28, 2020

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Have we reached ‘the beginning of the great change?’ Professor Rebecca Henderson is hopeful we have

Author Casey Schwartz on distraction, stimulants, and her love of paying attention May 21, 2020

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Focus, people! On paying attention

What are you smoking? Clearing the air about cannabis May 14, 2020

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These chemists are cutting through the haze to analyze our pot habits.

Death with dignity: A conversation with NPR’s Diane Rehm May 07, 2020

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According to longtime NPR host Diane Rehm, “talking about death in the U.S. is the last taboo.” And its something she says needs to change.

Clifford Thompson confronts race and indifference in the Trump era Apr 30, 2020

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Writer Clifford Thompson had made a sort of peace with being a black man in America. Then white people, and the Electoral College, made Donald Trump president.

Perplexed by that turn of events, Thompson looked for a way to fathom what had happened. He was inspired by the example of writer Joan Didion to employ memoir and reportage. He started by interviewing three Trump supporters at length. He compared what he learned from them to the experience and writing of other black Americans.

The result is his collection of essays What It Is: Race, Family, and One Thinking Black Man's Blues. In it, Thompson comes to the partial conclusion that the main problem isn’t ignorance and bigotry, but indifference.

The system: It’s about class and power Apr 23, 2020

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Robert Reich joins us from his home office

Drop that cheese puff! Food sustains us, and we live more sustainably, if we make good food choices Apr 16, 2020

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Author Sophie Egan talks about her new book How to Be a Conscious Eater: Making Food Choices That Are Good for You, Others, and the Planet, at Town Hall Seattle.

Ignite Seattle enlightens us, and they make it quick! Apr 09, 2020

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At this sold out Ignite Seattle 41, we hear stories about bicycles and the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment; why you might want a goat as a pet; the time Willie Weir lived in a billboard; one family’s experience of worldschooling, and much more.

Violence, suffering, survival, and metamorphosis in Paisley Rekdal’s ‘Nightingale’ Apr 07, 2020

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Paisley Rekdal read from and discussed her work in this Seattle Arts & Lectures event at Hugo House on February 6. WITS poet Zoë Mertz read “A Poem For My Future Child” to open the program. Kym Tuvim’s performance of the opening song has been moved to the end of the program. KUOW’s Sonya Harris provided our recording.

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