By JOHN IWASAKI
P-I REPORTER
Until he was 17, Charles Goodwin spent most of his teen years living with foster families and interacting with caseworkers who never fully understood him for a basic reason: None shared his Native American heritage.
The state removed him from his dysfunctional home and passed him through the child welfare system, where some [...]
By ROBERT L. JAMIESON Jr.
P-I COLUMNIST
There is no justice for Jessie Drungo. He’s dead, got a knife in the chest at 23.
The man authorities said killed him in Kent nearly two years ago now stands cleared of the crime. Last week, King County prosecutors quietly dismissed a second-degree homicide charge against Lonnie Lee Johnson. They [...]
From DiversitySpectrum.com:
On the heels of a growing body of research revealing that the isolation and negative outcomes for African American men and boys is more extreme than previously acknowledged, the Open Society Institute has launched a campaign to promote Black men and boys’ achievement. For example, more than 50% of all African American boys do [...]
By: Andrea Elliot, June 24, 2008
As Senator Barack Obama courted voters in Iowa last December, Representative Keith Ellison, the country’s first Muslim congressman, stepped forward eagerly to help. Mr. Ellison believed that Mr. Obama’s message of unity resonated deeply with American Muslims. He volunteered to speak on Mr. Obama’s behalf at a mosque in Cedar [...]
By Levi Pulkkinen, P-I Reporter
Six months have passed since two South Seattle teens were gunned down in separate incidents in disparate corners of the city. And police still have no suspects, as witnesses refuse to come forward.
Allen Joplin and De’Che Morrison had much in common. Both were sons of Seattle, students at city schools who [...]
