Tune in here for public comments - February 8, 2024 North Kitsap School District Board Meeting
Read MoreTune in here for public comments - February 8, 2024 North Kitsap School District Board Meeting
Read MoreRead MoreA year later a bond is up for vote in North Kitsap School District. A bond worth approximately $264 million dollars. That’s right. And guess what? We are back to where we started. Despite competent and good minds working on this project, it failed to include one of our schools on Tribal lands - why?
Read MoreUn año después, un bono se somete a votación en el Distrito Escolar de North Kitsap. Un bono por un valor aproximado de $264 millones de dólares. Así es. ¿Y adivina qué? Estamos de vuelta donde empezamos. A pesar de que en este proyecto trabajaron mentes competentes y buenas, no se pudo incluir una de nuestras escuelas en tierras tribales. ¿Por qué?
Mantener las apariencias, afrontar ese exterior duro. No hables, no sientas, no confíes.
Esa voz interior le dijo
Así es cuando vives en el barrio
Read MoreKeeping up appearances, copping that tough exterior Don’t talk don’t feel don’t trust
That inner voice said to her
That’s how it is when ya livin’ in the ‘hood
Read MoreRead MoreMi hija Sara Yousef tiene 20 años y es de Rafah, Gaza, Palestina. Ella vino a nuestra familia en 2019 como estudiante de intercambio a través del Programa YES, un programa del Departamento de Estado de EE. UU. que brinda becas a estudiantes de secundaria de países de mayoría musulmana para estudiar en los EE. UU. Sara vivió con nosotros en Bainbridge Island y asistió a la escuela secundaria Central Kitsap.
Read MoreMy daughter Sara Yousef is a 20-year-old from Rafah, Gaza, Palestine. She came into our family in 2019 as an exchange student through the YES Program, US State Department program which provides scholarships to high school students from Muslim-majority countries to study in the US. Sara lived with us on Bainbridge Island and attended Central Kitsap High School.
Read MoreHistorians have found that most sundown towns deliberately hid the means by which they became and remained all-white. Apart from oral histories, there are often few archival records that describe precisely how sundown towns excluded Blacks. Laws and policies that enforced racial exclusion have largely disappeared, but de facto sundown towns existed into the 1980s, and some may still be in evidence today.
Read MoreHistorians have found that most sundown towns deliberately hid the means by which they became and remained all-white. Apart from oral histories, there are often few archival records that describe precisely how sundown towns excluded Blacks. Laws and policies that enforced racial exclusion have largely disappeared, but de facto sundown towns existed into the 1980s, and some may still be in evidence today.
abolir el Servicio de Inmigración y Control de Aduanas de EE.UU. - Brenda Calderon
Read MoreEnviaré mi nariz de regreso a Polonia.
Mis manos de regreso a Inglaterra.
Enviaré parte de mi piel a Alemania y parte de mi cabello a Escocia.
Pero mi corazón... lo guardaré en Nəxʷq̓iyt.
Read MoreMy hands back to England.
I’ll send some of my skin back to Germany and some of my hair back to Scotland.
But my heart... I’ll keep that in Nəxʷq̓iyt.
With all the love and anger of my Seya still flowing in it.
Read MoreDia De Los Muertos by Julie D. Castillejo
This piece of art was meant to represent Día de Los Muertos, a part of my Mexican heritage.
Read MoreBisan - Belonging - Palestine
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