Leonard Thomas with his son Elijah. Thomas was fatally shot by police in Fife in 2013. A jury recently awarded Thomas’ parents and son $15 million, one of the largest police deadly force verdicts in...
An image of Charleena Lyles is seen at the site of a vigil in front of Brettler Family Place 3, where she was killed by Seattle Police Department officers.
Sheley Secrest, a leader with the Seattle King County NAACP, addresses the Seattle City Council at Kane Hall on June 27, 2017 about the shooting death of Charleena Lyles. (Matt M. McKnight/Crosscut)
For the second time in two months, the American Civil Liberties Union of Washington has filed a lawsuit claiming a transgender individual was denied medical care because of discrimination.
The room was as tense as any family get-together. It’s not always that comfortable to hang with relatives, let alone when the occasion is to remember a family member horrifically killed.
Kim Le mourns her grandson Tommy Le in front of his urn of ashes at Co Lam Pagoda Buddhist Temple in Seattle on Sunday, August 6, 2017. The 20-year-old Vietnamese-American man was shot and killed by...
They’re not the sortof couple one is likely to encounter in many parts of the country, yet dozens of Washington state residents have witnessed Aneelah Afzali and Rev. Terry Kyllo preach together in...
The bloodletting at Olympia's Evergreen State College continues in the aftermath of last spring's race-related protests with the resignation of an African-American faculty member.