Before there was the pandemic, there were the bushfires. This morning it is sunny and warm. From my bed I can see a blue sky freckled...

What if you thought of it as the Jews consider the Sabbath— the most sacred of times? Cease from travel. Cease from buying and selling....

Cost is always a major opposing point to reparations. I echo Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who asked about cost when millionaires and...

Last month, Georgia McDade explored the concept of reparations and this month, she lists some ways in which we might make reparations....

Reparations is not a word I use often. There were years when I neither heard nor said the word. Then in June 2014 Ta-Nahesi Coates wrote...

September 24th, shortly before Seattle Arts and Lectures guest Malcolm Gladwell appeared on stage, a young black man whom I did not know...

If you will be eighteen by November 5, 2019, you should be registered to vote, and you should vote. You should not hesitate to encourage...

At a recent poetry reading along with two black women, one in her thirties, the other in her fifties, I mentioned the ordeal of getting a...

During our semi-annual switch on and off daylight saving time (DST), there are always flurries of articles that come out extolling the...

Candi Pickens declared “I love it,” when I asked how she liked living in the SHARE/WHEEL sponsored Tent City 3 encampment. “We are a...

In honor of Women’s History Month, I am celebrating Radical Women, a socialist feminist group based in Columbia City, but with branches...

A special League of Women Voters year-end program was given by University of Washington professors Jevin West and Carl Bergstrom on...