While we Americans are busy playing football against a giant turkey, tons of other countries are celebrating Thanksgiving in their own unique ways. (Photo from Flickr)

5 global Thanksgiving traditions to shake up your holiday

Want to celebrate the most American of holidays with a bit of a twist. Try these global Thanksgiving traditions.
Nov 25, 2015
Protesters in Guerrero marched earlier this year with a cutout of Nestora Salgado. The Renton mom became leader of a community police force in her home town, and has been held in jail for two years. (Photo by Fernando Salgado)

Meeting La Comandante: a jailhouse interview with Nestora Salgado

Nestora Salgado gave up a quiet life near Seattle to lead a community police force in her hometown in Mexico. Now she continues her activism from a prison cell.
Nov 5, 2015

Día de los Muertos in Oaxaca stays true to its roots

While some cities in Mexico have started to adopt features of Halloween, you'll won't find any Disney princesses at Oaxaca's Día de los Muertos celebration.

How a tiny Mexican town was transformed by Azteca restaurants

The small town of Cuautla in Jalisco, Mexico cashes in on an American Dream fulfilled.
Aug 24, 2015
Juan Valadez, a young graphic designer who lives in Guadalajara, Mexico, says the idea of moving to the U.S. isn't of interest to him or most of his friends. (Photo by Alysa Hullett)

Young Mexicans finding fewer reasons to head north

For entrepreneurial young Mexicans, dreams of prosperity no longer lie across the border.
Apr 3, 2015
(Photo by Quinn Dombrowski via Flickr)

Rejecting the American Dream, Mexicans reintegrate back home

Divided from family and missing their culture, returning home is an obvious choice for many Mexican immigrants. But things aren't always so easy once they get there.
Mar 26, 2015

Mexican immigration slows as ‘better life’ in US proves elusive

More and more Mexican migrants are giving up lives and jobs in the Northwest to go back across the border.
Mar 19, 2015

Why more women in leadership will mean fewer women in poverty

International Women’s Day is holiday that usually gets ignored. So it makes a great moment to reflect on a widely ignored issue: women in poverty.  
Mar 7, 2013

Rethinking study abroad, diverse youth travel to China and Middle East

Study abroad is a defining experience for many high school and college students. But often the students who have access to those programs are white and upper/middle class. One Seattle program hopes to change that. 
Feb 6, 2013