civil rights

(Runtime 1:54)A racial justice organization in Seattle is expanding its reach with a $30 thousand grant to a civil rights education organization on the…

It isn’t always easy to find live performances of gospel or spirituals in the Inland Northwest, but a group of educators is bringing it to us.

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3FxT3j5Vju9jqdtJvy4ZSFThe first Labor Day was celebrated in 1882. The labor movement is long, varied, and complex. But…

(Runtime 1:53)A cultural anthropologist who campaigned during the Civil Rights Movement now calls the Palouse home. She’s celebrating her life’s work and…

Ostrom Mushroom Farm must pay 3.4 million dollars for discriminating against workers. The Washington state attorney general said Ostrom’s settlement with Washington state resolved the civil rights lawsuit against the company for unfair, deceptive and discriminatory actions against female farmworkers and Washington-based workers.

(Runtime 1:07)Civil rights activist Dolores Huerta spoke at Washington State University’s Pullman campus on April 3 as the keynote speaker for…

(Runtime 2:03) Living on the rolling hills of the Palouse is a woman who has deep roots in the civil rights movement. Terry Buffington is a trove of…

Decades later, Birmingham News Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist John Archibald is trying to do just that. Archibald comes from a long line of Methodist preachers in the South; his father had a pulpit at a critical time and place in American history — 1960s Alabama.

This weekend marks 56 years since civil rights marchers were attacked by Alabama state troopers on a day now known as "Bloody Sunday." The annual…

By 1950, 20% of Pasco’s approximately 10,000 residents were Black, almost all living in slum conditions. Few lived in the new atomic community of Richland and none in “lily-white” Kennewick -- a fact of which Kennewick city leaders and police at the time were proud. Not only was housing segregated, but Black residents were forced to endure broad discrimination in employment and education.