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Why we’re wasting food in a hungry world

by Rebecca Randall

Is the solution to feeding a growing global population sitting right there on our plates?

UW students Sophia Lo (Left) and Tina Choi (Right) hold yellow ribbons to show support for the Hong Kong protest. (Photo by Katy Wong)

Chinese students in Seattle respond to Hong Kong protests

Hong Kong is 10,404 km away from Seattle. But that's not stopping students at the University of Washington from supporting the protests in Hong Kong.

Gates Foundation’s African agriculture agenda gets some blowback

by Anna Goren

A grassroots conference last weekend brought African farming leaders to Seattle to take on a green revolution they say is more about profit then poverty alleviation.

Mayor Ed Murray shakes hands with tribal leaders shortly after signing Seattle's Indigenous People's Day Resolution. (Photo by Christina Twu)

Seattle’s new Indigenous People’s Day is more than symbolic

by Christina Twu

A symbolic move away from Columbus Day also comes with real changes to education policy.

Residents of Ferguson, MO took to the streets in August after unarmed teenager Mike Brown was shot by police. (Photo by Jamelle Bouie)

The ‘black prophetic fire’ behind Cornel West’s Ferguson arrest

by Reagan Jackson

Following a sold out event in Seattle last week, Cornel West was arrested this morning in Ferguson.

YouthCAN participants cook Korean food for elders at the International Community Health Services during the Summer 2014 culinary arts session. (Photo by Minh Nguyen)

API youth find voices through art and community

by Travis Quezon

Over the last decade, the YouthCAN program of the Wing Luke Museum of the Asian Pacific American Experience (The Wing) has been offering opportunities to 15-to-19-year-olds of Asian Pacific Islander heritage to engage in their communities and find their true voices through explorations in art.

Belltown sushi restaruant "Shiro's" namesake and former chef Shiro Kashiba (third from left), with the restaurant's current chefs staff. (Photo by Ana Sofia Knauf)

Skip the Seattle rolls and embrace sushi’s traditions

by Ana Sofia Knauf

For sushi to have a future, chefs will have to look to the past

Capoeira catching on in exercise-crazed Seattle

by Mahroo Keshavarz

Looking for a way to stay active through the winter? This Brazilian martial arts-dance hybrid might be your game.

Chinese military men march out to welcome Staff Marine Gen. Peter Pace during an honor guard ceremony at the Ministry of Defense in Beijing, China. (Photo by Staff Sgt. D. Myles Cullen/United States Air Force)

7 ways we misunderstand China

by Christina Twu

Americans love to talk about China in sweeping generalizations. What are we missing when we stereotype a vast country with 1.4 billion people?

My responsibility to fight for democracy in Hong Kong

by Rebecca Yeung

"We are not here for fun, we are here for our future."

Children at immigration reform protesters in front of the White House in July. (Photo from Center for Human Rights)

Northwest families open their homes to unaccompanied immigrant kids

by Anna Goren

While the numbers of unsupervised youth crossing the border from Mexico and Central America has begun to wane in recent weeks, the challenges faced by those awaiting their fates in holding facilities along the border are still very real.

Globie Awards ceremony raises $12K for global storytelling

by Ana Sofia Knauf

Thanks to our amazing community, the 2014 Globie Awards was a great success.

Hugo Lucitante pilots a boat on the Ecuadorian Amazon, on the land of the Cofan people, which is threatened by oil extraction. (Photo courtesy Oil and Water)

Lifeline for Amazon tribe runs through Seattle

by Sarah Stuteville

Local documentary, “Oil & Water,” tells the story of an Ecuadorean tribe endangered by global warming and oil extraction, an ambassador from that tribe in Seattle and his friendship with a man who helps certify oil companies as environmentally friendly.

Umbrellas, used by student protesters in Hong Kong to shield themselves from police pepper spray, have become symbols of the nacent pro-democracy movement. (Photo by Gennie Gebhart)

Umbrellas up: UW students turn out in force behind Hong Kong protests

by Gennie Gebhart

Seattle’s skies were clear on Wednesday night, but the University of Washington’s Red Square was a sea of umbrellas.

A bilingual classroom at Scenic Hill Elementary, in the Kent School District. (Photo courtesy OneAmerica)

Why teachers must reflect student diversity

by Roxana Norouzi

A new pilot program in South King County will fast track bilingual educators from diverse backgrounds to the front of classrooms filled with immigrants and youth of color.

Hamda Yusuf, a third-year international studies major who is Somali American, often works on her poetry about identity at the Quad on the University of Washington campus. (Photo by Lindsey Wasson / The Seattle Times)

Borders collapse in voices of young poets

by Sarah Stuteville

A growing cohort of immigrant poets gives a universal spin to Northwest themes.

Jocelyn (Joys) Morenno leads a Zumba class in Veracruz, Mexico. (Photo from ZumbaMexico)

For travelers, Zumba is a chance to dance with the locals

by Reagan Jackson

From Mexico to Moscow, the Latin-music-based fitness program Zumba has danced it's way to a global empire.

Horse head fiddle player and throat singer Davaazorig Altangerel performs as part of Mongolian orchestra Agra Bileg at Town Hall last Friday. (Photo by Aida Solomon)

Mongolian jazz kicks off Town Hall’s “Global Rhythms” series

by Aida Solomon

Tejano rock, Hawaiian chanting, and Mongolian jazz all come to Seattle as part of a world music concert series at Town Hall.

Mainstreaming climate change in the Pacific Islands

by Janet Lotawa

As world leaders debate climate change in New York, Fiji and other Pacific Islands are feeling the impacts first hand.

Join us Saturday for the 2014 Globie Awards

by Ana Sofia Knauf

The Seattle Globalist's second-annual Globie Awards fundraiser is this Saturday, September 27, from 6 p.m. to 9:30 p.m at Washington Hall.

Sep 22, 2014