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- Over the weekend, a local Hawaiian hula group and others held a ceremony to welcome a collection of Native Hawaiian remains on their way to being repatriated. They had been taken from Hawaii illegally by colonizers and were on their way home from Europe.
- Spoken word poet Troy Osaki writes eloquently and tenderly of Filipino workers on the frontlines to bring visibility to their labor throughout the Seattle and the Pacific Northwest.
- In August 2021, after the U.S. withdrew and the repressive Taliban regime took over in Afghanistan, thousands of Afghan people became refugees and came to the U.S., including Abdul Nasir, who lives with RadioActive’s Micah Riggio.
- As Melissa Santos from Axios originally reported, out of the 400 permanent art installations included in the City of Seattle’s civic art collection, there’s only one outdoor monument honoring a female historical figure. bit.ly/40YgXhK
