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Only Bridging Can Heal a World of Breaking

From Yes! Magazine – Diversity can be a great strength, but it is susceptible to manipulation when not accompanied by community leaders from all backgrounds willing and able to bridge across difference. The idea of “bridging” provides a path to healing…
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Six ways Northwest Natives are using tech to save their languages

From Seattle Globalist – Sydney Cain. If you live in the Pacific Northwest, indigenous words and phrases are probably peppered throughout your speech without you even thinking about it. They pop up in place names like Alki, Cle Elum, Tumwater, and of course Seattle…
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Baybayin script still alive in app

From The Northwest Asian Weekly – Jason Cruz. Growing up in the Central District of Seattle, Christopher Castillo came upon a play about the Filipino Revolution at the Langston Hughes Cultural Arts Center. The play’s program included “curious characters,” which spurred Castillo’s interest. It led to a phone app that has gained a swell of popularity…
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An unheard narrative: One woman’s pursuit of education in North Korea before the war and the longer term impact of this opportunity

From The International Examiner – Chris Juergens. The development of South Korea from one of the poorest agrarian societies in the world to an urban, wealthy, high-tech powerhouse in such a relatively short time span has caused extreme generational gaps…
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How Photography Shapes Our View of Native Americans

From Yes! Magazine – Jacqueline Keeler
Using an early photographic process, one photographer hopes to draw a line connecting what happened to the Dakota people in Mankato, Minnesota, 155 years ago and what is happening today to the Dakota/Lakota standing up to a $3.7 billion crude oil pipeline…
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For her kids – A story of the Godulas Family

From Greeks In Washington – Godulas Family. My mom, Naouma Filou, was later to became Naouma Godulas. Her story begins in 1918 in the small village of Siatista in the foothills of northern Greece. She said that she was uncertain of the day she was born, so she had just picked a date…
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Storytelling: Crane and Changer

From Hibulb Cultural Center – a story told by Snoqualmie Charlie as part of the Star Child story.

Long ago, when the world was not yet the way it is today, dukʷibəɬ the Changer was walking. He was going everywhere all over the earth. Sometimes he would appear from the East as a brilliant light. Sometimes he would look like a young man, or several young men. Sometimes he would be invisible. Sometimes he would look like an old person who knew about a lot of things….
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The Importance of Movies Like “Black Panther” and “A Wrinkle in Time”

From Yes! Magazine – Jennifer Burton & Julie Dobrow & Calvin Gidney. Yes, Black Panther is shattering box-office records. And A Wrinkle in Time is the first $100 million movie directed by a woman of color. But beyond all that, these films break the mold by showing the complexity and variety of black male and female experiences.
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Viengthong Restaurant celebrates Lao culture through food

From the International Examiner – Tucked in an unassuming strip mall near the intersection of Martin Luther King Jr. Way and Rainier Avenue in South Seattle is Viengthong Restaurant, a Lao-Thai restaurant which serves dishes from both cuisines.
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