Organizer, activist and community leader KL Shannon left a long legacy of fighting for social and racial justice in the Seattle area, writes Naomi Ishisaka.

As the cyclospora outbreak wreaks havoc across the country, federal funding cuts have weakened the public health system, columnist Naomi Ishisaka writes.

With the Trump administration’s crackdown on immigrant-rights protesters, we must not give in to fear, columnist Naomi Ishisaka writes.

The long-awaited station is back on track, but advocates want to ensure the community actually benefits, columnist Naomi Ishisaka writes.

With the World Cup in Seattle during Pride, local organizers are showing “How We Pride” through a video and social media campaign, columnist Naomi Ishisaka writes.

A series of alarming King County audits offers an opportunity to get back to basics and focus on good governance and accountability, columnist Naomi Ishisaka writes.

Some Rainier Beach residents are trying to help people understand the toll gun violence takes on communities, columnist Naomi Ishisaka writes.

Until recently, too little was known about perimenopause and menopause, and generations of women suffered, Naomi Ishisaka writes. But that’s starting to change.

When Facebook accounts are hacked, users are left with little recourse, columnist Naomi Ishisaka discovered. But some people are trying to change that.

The allegations against renowned farmworker leader Cesar Chavez have opened a wider conversation about sexual assault and silence, columnist Naomi Ishisaka writes.

People of Iranian descent in the Seattle area do not speak with one voice about the war in Iran. But their voices should be at the forefront, even when they disagree.

Seattle may not have the Boricua community of places like New York or Orlando. But many of the 24,000 people here of Puerto Rican descent relished the Super Bowl halftime show, Naomi Ishisaka writes.

Multiracial, LGBTQ+-affirming choir Resounding Love uses gospel music to build community and a better world, columnist Naomi Ishisaka writes.

In MLK's 1963 "Letter from a Birmingham Jail," the civil rights leader noted that what is legal and what is right are not always the same thing.

In MLK's 1963 "Letter from a Birmingham Jail," the civil rights leader noted that what is legal and what is right are not always the same thing.

Some farmworkers say they have to choose to either brave floodwaters or go without pay and face possible retaliation from employers, Naomi Ishisaka writes.

Some farmworkers, who put food on our tables, say they have to choose between braving floodwaters and going without pay or facing retaliation from employers.

Sam Doyle’s nail-biter of a win serves as something of a case study for people who might be interested in running for office for the first time.

Eddie Lin, Erika Evans, Dionne Foster and Alexis Mercedes Rinck were among the candidates whose campaigns were boosted by the progressive Working Families Party.

At Estelita's Library, Toasted, the Asian Counseling and Referral Service and other community hubs, folks provided for each other as government food aid lapsed.

Two federal judge have ruled that the Trump administration must continue to fund the SNAP food aid program using contingency funds during the government shutdown.

Pedestrians and e-scooters have become a contentious mix in Seattle, with older adults often suffering the most, columnist Naomi Ishisaka writes.

"Baseball Saved Us" was a surprise best-seller about a Japanese American boy incarcerated during WWII. And it's now one of the most-challenged books in the U.S.

The mural dates to 2020, weeks after George Floyd was murdered by Minneapolis police officers and begun just 36 hours into what would become known as CHOP.

Over 2 million people across Italy have rallied in more than 100 cities for a one-day general strike.

Quintard Taylor, Jr., professor emeritus of history at UW and founder of an online archive of Black history, died Sunday.

In the days following the brutal assassination of Charlie Kirk, it became no longer enough to say you condemn the killing. No, you also had to praise and valorize him.

Louder than Hate countered Let Us Worship’s anti-gay, anti-trans Revive in 25 event at Gas Works with an outpouring of support and solidarity at Washington Hall.

Seba lost both her legs after an Israeli airstrike. The 12-year-old girl from Gaza could learn to walk again with the help of prosthetics from Seattle-area doctors.

Two decades after a trip to hurricane-ravaged New Orleans, columnist Naomi Ishisaka sounds an alarm about the inadequacy of disaster preparedness in the U.S.

The arrest of an innocent Seattle man highlights persistent inequities in the criminal legal system, columnist Naomi Ishisaka writes.

Evidence is mounting that people — children — are starving in Gaza. People of conscience have a decision to make.

Evidence is mounting that people — children — are starving in Gaza. People of conscience have a decision to make.

Palestinian children have been killed at a rate of more than one per hour since the war began.

The national Asian American Journalists Association convention will be in Seattle, July 30-Aug. 3. Around 1,300 journalists are expected to take part.

More Native Hawaiians now live in the continental U.S. than in Hawai‘i, with Washington having the second highest continental population behind California.

Seattle’s "No Kings" protest on June 14 was one of the largest in the city’s history.  Over 70,000 came out on Capitol Hill to protest the Trump administration in just one of many local events. Nation...

“How can one even imagine that your adopted country is bombing your homeland,” said a Kirkland man, 70, who hasn't heard from his family in Iran since Friday.

Seattle's U.S. representatives condemned President Donald Trump's strikes. A state lawmaker expressed concern for how a war could harm Iranian Americans.

Calling in the National Guard and Marines is part of an "authoritarian power grab of this administration against ... ‘blue’ cities and ‘blue’ states," writes a UW historian.

Organizers say big-name companies may fear drawing the ire of President Donald Trump. Here's which companies are back and which aren't.

If the ban were really about visa overstays, Spain would be on the list. What’s truly behind it? Racism and xenophobia, say Seattle-area immigrant rights activists.