Senior Swafiya Twahir speaking at the MLK assembly Bellevue High's Bellaires preform "Carefully Taught". A song about ongoing racial prejudices in the United States. Gonsango, a dance company based in Seattle led by Etienne, left, preforms traditional West African music at the MLK assembly. Everyone participating in the dance. Freshman Edward Li, standing left.

Photo from Unsplash Every morning during the second period announcements, a habit has quietly developed in the classroom. Conversations continue, students play games on their computers and others keep their heads down. What was once a shared routine among students in elementary school has now become background noise for our current distractions in life. I hope others are aware of what their unintentional protest to the pledge means. Standing for the pledge is now seen as ra

Photo from https://es.geneastar.org/genealogia/wilsonkathe/katie-wilson Seattle’s new mayor, Katie Wilson, stood out during her campaign for her background in grassroots organizing. However, beyond just her passion for community activism, she enters office with an agenda that reflects her experience in policy reform; an agenda that will matter far beyond Seattle’s city limits, as her policies start to affect Bellevue residents who commute, work, and move through Seattle ever

Graphic by Mingze Shi Every 10 years, Washington state redraws voting district boundaries based on new census data. According to Oregon Public Broadcasting, the current bipartisan system, where Democrats and Republicans decide the maps together, has been in place for over 30 years. But after seeing states like Texas redraw their voting maps to favor Republicans, Washington Democrats are attempting to do the same to balance Texas out. To maintain a majority in the House afte

Photo by Brooklyn O'Connor There are nearly 200 diverse classes offered at Bellevue High School, and many of them are social studies. But there are very few classes dedicated to studying the variety of cultural identities around us. In a city and school that is approximately 40% Asian American (the highest racial percentage), how much do we actually know of their history? While major detrimental events like the Chinese Exclusion Act and Japanese internment are certainly not