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Alice Ito’s late father Tosh used to drive by the area where he grew up in Bellevue. She remembered how he would chuckle at how much had changed. Just 75 years ago, a dirt road led to the Ito family ...
Bruce Lee is buried in Lake View Cemetery next to his son Brandon, who died in 1993. (Photo by Chetanya Robinson) Next to Volunteer Park in Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood lies a spot that’s ...
My cousin’s words stopped me dead in my tracks in the middle of Costco. A mere ten seconds prior I had been contemplating going back for my third burrito sample, half listening to her telling me about ...
Men eating to their “two-healths” — or sahtein — in Damascus. I suspect many of you have had the experience of sitting next to someone having a coughing fit and were not sure what to say. “Bless you” ...
NONSENSE. I’m actually did a PhD in Halal Meat…so you do your research. And I’m guessing your not Muslim so no-one cares abut what you think about Halal meat Halal meat is one of the best meats ...
Eli Tail, a participant of Native Girls Code since 2015, using a Hummingbird Robotics Kit to animate a scene from a traditional Cherokee family story, that she and her family chose to recreate as a ...
Matt Remle’s grandparents were about five years old when they were taken to live in American Indian boarding schools. Like thousands of other Native American children in the 19th and 20th centuries, ...
The moment my flight lifted off from SeaTac International Airport en route to Somalia was probably the most emotionally conflicted point in my entire life. I was elated to be returning to my country ...
A screenshot of Tukwila’s health disparities ranking, according to the Washington Health Disparities Map. Tukwila ranks in the highest tier of risk. People of color make up 61% of the population. In ...
Media portrayals of communities of color got ya scared? (Still from Boyz n the Hood) When I tell people I live in Rainier Beach I get a variety of reactions. Sometimes people politely nod as if to ...
Although I’ve lived in three continents of the world during my short lifetime, my home country of India holds the biggest (and truest) part of me. I was born in the capital of New Delhi, where I grew ...
Etna, an Ethiopian incense, is burned throughout the entire coffee ceremony. The sweet scent saturated the air of Kaffa Coffee and Wine Bar, located in the Rainier Beach neighborhood of Seattle, WA.