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Keisha Bush And Lisa Lucas Discuss "No Heaven For Good Boys"
Join us for a conversation about this modern-day Senegalese Oliver Twist, which explores the power of love, and the strength that can emerge when we have no other choice but to survive.
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(01:02:19)
| Posted July 2021
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Frank Abe, Tamiko Nimura, Ross Ishikawa, and Tom Ikeda Discuss "We Hereby Refuse"
A panel discussion on June 14, 2021 to celebrate the release of :We Hereby Refuse," which honors three historic voices and their three acts of defiance in the face of one mass injustice.
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(01:08:27)
| Posted July 2021
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Jewell Parker Rhodes Discusses "Magic City"
Join us for a conversation reflecting on the 100th anniversary of one of the most heinous tragedies in American history—the 1921 burning of Greenwood, an affluent black section of Tulsa, Oklahoma.
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(01:11:16)
| Posted June 2021
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Lynda Mapes And Guests Discuss "Orca: Shared Waters, Shared Home"
Join us for a conversation about the history and the future of Orca whales in Puget Sound. This panel conversation will include Jay Julius, former Chairman, Lummi Nation; Deborah Giles, Orca scientist at UW Center for Conservation Biology and Science Director of Wild Orca and Jason Colby, Chairman of the History Department at University of Victoria and author of Orca.
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| Posted June 2021
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David B. Williams And Mary Ann Gwinn Discuss "Homewaters"
Join us for a conversation about the human and natural histories in, on, and around Puget Sound.
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(01:12:12)
| Posted June 2021
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Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai With Karl Marlantes Discuss "The Mountains Sing"
Celebrated Vietnamese poet Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai’s shares her first novel in English, an enveloping, multigenerational tale of the Trần family, set against the backdrop of the Việt Nam War.
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(01:05:10)
| Posted June 2021
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Quiara Alegría Hudes Discusses "My Broken Language"
Join us to hear Hudes, a Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright, talk about coming of age, with her sprawling Puerto Rican family as a collective muse.
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(01:07:56)
| Posted June 2021
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Jourdan Imani Keith Presents "Womxn & Whales First, Poetry In A Climate Of Change"
Join Seattle Civic Poet Jourdan Imani Keith and six other poets who read work that shows how protecting endangered womxn will protect endangered whales.
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(01:18:42)
| Posted June 2021
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The Nutritionist’s Kitchen With Carly Knowles
The Seattle Public Library and Bastyr University welcome Chef and Nutritionist, Carly Knowles, author of the new book, The Nutritionist's Kitchen, for a conversation with Dr. Tori Hudson.
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(01:06:45)
| Posted June 2021
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Reagan E.J. Jackson Discusses Still Here - A South End Mixtape From An Unexpected Journalist
Join us to celebrate the launch of Still Here - A South End Mixtape from an Unexpected Journalist, a collection of some of Jackson’s most grounded and meaningful work in journalism. (Video contains swearing)
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(01:32:36)
| Posted May 2021