Can the Heart and Soul of the Central District Survive Redevelopment?

Gentrification threatens to erase the cultural underpinnings of Seattle’s once predominantly black neighborhood.

Fat’s Chicken and Waffles, which opened last year in the iconic Catfish Corner space at East Cherry Street and Martin Luther King Jr. Way, is considered by some an example of “gentrification done right.”

Jake Bullinger

After Racial Burrito Controversy, ‘Offensive’ Portland Taco Festival Canceled

Last weekend's Portland Taco Festival was battered with a number of criticisms.

Mexican food is at the center of another Portland controversy.

Michael Rietmulder

Seattle is Working to Make a Better Future for Black Boys. But What About Black Girls?

Critics of a program mentoring young black males argue it leaves girls behind.

Programs are focused on helping black boys, even though outcomes for black girls are similarly troubling

Erica C. Barnett

Neither Liberals nor Rural Southerners are Safe in Hilarious New Book-It Play

The adaptation of an acclaimed novel tackles America's sordid racial history.

Daemond Arrindell (right) and Josh Aaseng bring the college kids of “Welcome to Braggsville” to Book-It’s stage.

Florangela Davila

2016: The WTF Year in Review

#manintree perhaps best summarizes the overall WTF zeitgeist of 2016

Seattle Magazine Staff with Jake Laycock, Rebecca Ratterman and Eva Seelye

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