Naomi Ishisaka is The Seattle Times’ assistant managing editor for diversity, inclusion and staff development. Her column on race, culture, equity and social justice appears weekly on Mondays.
Democracy Vouchers brought equity in campaign financing a long way for Seattle, but more needs to be done to ensure the program is available for...
Auburn's Gathering Roots and Tukwila's Sovereignty Farm go back to the land to support healing, resilience and self-sufficiency in Black, Indigenous and people of color...
One of the state's new police-accountability measures requires police officers to intervene when colleagues use excessive force, columnist Naomi Ishisaka writes. But why do officers...
Finally, Asian Americans are centered in public conversation. Will we use this moment to build solidarity or continue to take up "apologetic" space in the...
With the state Supreme Court's Blake decision, which is widely believed to mean, in part, that past possession convictions will be vacated, there is an...
Once the COVID-19 pandemic began, the Samish Indian Nation had to shift its approach of in-person cultural classes. Since moving their classes online, tribal leaders...
Harmful myths, tropes and stereotypes about Asian American women create conditions that can lead to violence, writes columnist Naomi Ishisaka. The killing last week of...
This list of 15 books, compiled by Karen Maeda Allman at Seattle's Elliott Bay Book Company, are a starting point of readings on Asian American...
A new report by Prosperity Now, a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit, illustrates the current state of Seattle's racial wealth gap as well as some of the...
Legal financial obligations are a weight that cash-poor people cannot shake. A bill in the Washington state Legislature aims to give judges more discretion to...
