“Behind us is the land that we owned,” said John Houston, as he pointed at a neighborhood in the Highlands in Renton.

This is not how he and the Houston family members expected their lives to turn out.

“It was swampy land, but it was home, land owned by my parents,” said Houston, who is almost 70 years old. “It’s kind of heartbreaking to see it now, and realize the dreams that my parents had.”

Friends of Waterfront Seattle (Friends) is excited to announce its 2023 calendar of arts, culture, and movement programming on Pier 62, all open to the public. With over 80,000 attendees at events held last year, Friends has been working with dozens of program partners to bring together a 2023 calendar that highlights Seattle’s diversity of cultures, depth of artistic talent, community-focused organizations, all while honoring and centering the Indigenous roots, cultures, and histories of our waterfront.

Today, Bumbershoot: Seattle’s Arts & Music Festival announces the highly anticipated daily lineups and reveals new musical acts who will join in celebrating Bumbershoot’s 50-year anniversary at the Seattle Center this September 2 & 3. Additionally, producers have shared impressive details about the successful launch of their Workforce Development Program, supporting future generations of music festival producers and industry experts.

Host of The Drive Project Podcast on the Converge Media Network and National PBS Host Jay Martin Jr. was recently featured on the cover of Greet Kirkland Magazine. He also had a feature story about his fashion sense appear in 425 Magazine. Martin says that being able to share his story on an even broader scale is something he’s been striving for his entire career and he’s very grateful for the opportunity.

In game seven of their second round Stanley Cup Playoffs matchup against the Dallas Stars, the Seattle Kraken failed to generate enough offense and couldn’t beat Stars goaltender Jake Oettinger until too late, wasting an all-time performance by Philipp Grubauer in net. Seattle’s second season ends in heartbreaking fashion, just minutes away from a Western Conference Finals berth.

The Sankofa Theater is hosting two fundraising parties - one on May 20th and one on May 28th. The funds will go towards securing a new lease for the Black Woman-owned theater which provides space for the arts within Seattle's Black community.

In a do or die game six back in their home of Climate Pledge Arena, the Seattle Kraken got out to a hot start and were able to sustain that pressure to secure a victory and force a game seven in their second round Stanley Cup Playoffs matchup. Some of the teams veterans ensured that the Kraken season would continue, in addition to a few faces you may not expect.

This week on HeartBeat, Cindi Bright was joined by Washington State Senator Patty Kuderer. Kuderer recently announced her campaign for Washington State Insurance Commissioner, a role which oversees healthcare costs and the ways insurance companies operate within the state.

The Seattle Kraken dropped a second consecutive game in this second round Stanley Cup Playoff series, as the Dallas Stars once again used a hot start to give them just enough cushion to sustain a Kraken comeback attempt. Seattle now has their back against the wall for the first time since game seven of their series against the Avalanche.

In the third homestand of the 2023 season, the Seattle Mariners hosted the two Texas based teams at T-Mobile Park for a somewhat brief stretch. It was an even split of the six games, with the Mariners getting an impressive series win over the Astros while narrowly losing the series to the Rangers.

Mariners dropped the rubber match against the Rangers and lost their first series at home against Texas since 2019. Starting pitcher Luis Castillo hit some bumps in the game, while the Mariners bats failed to complete a late inning comeback.

Tonight on HeartBeat with Cindi Bright: Patty Kuderer joins the show to discuss her campaign for Washington State Insurance Commissioner.

The Rainier Beach High School Replacement Project has been a long time coming, and the work is now underway in full force. Our team was there to speak to those involved and showcase the construction being done to outfit the community with a state-of-the-art high school.

The Mariners were able to shutout the hot bats of the Rangers, collecting a victory behind starting pitcher George Kirby's strong performance. Kirby went seven scoreless innings, while the Seattle bats were able to push five runs across the plate including Tom Murphy's two-run blast.

The Seattle Kraken suffered a game four loss to the Dallas Stars, as the visiting team brough the fight to Seattle and tallied a four goal second period. Seattle’s Jaden Schwartz tallied two goal and did his best to try and push his team back into the game, but Dallas was able to extend their lead with an empty net goal and send the series back to Texas tied.

Sunday morning Besa Gordon of Converge Media and Avery Barnes of Taswira joined Tanzania’s Permanent Secretary for the Ministry of Natural Resources & Tourism Dr Hassan Abbas, the CEO of Tanzania’s Tourism Board Mr. Damasi Mfugale, Country Coordinator and GM of African Lyon FC Rahim Zamunda Kangezi, and the Seahawks Partnership Development Director Luke Grothkopp on a walking tour of the Pioneer Square neighborhood as they visited our Black Media Matters studio and African Art Gallery TASWIRA.

The Seattle Storm dropped their first preseason contest ahead of the 2023 regular season, as several of the Storm players were able to contribute to a strong first half. The second half saw things crumble in the third period, and it was all Mercury from there.

The Seattle Mariners, fresh off of a big series win against the Houston Astros, once again failed their starting pitcher as they only plated one for Logan Gilbert to drop game one. Ty France’s early solo homer got things going early, and Gilbert pitched an excellent game, but the mariners bats couldn’t get it done the rest of the way.

In game three of the second round Stanley Cup Playoffs matchup, the Seattle Kraken blew out the Dallas Stars by a score of 7-2 with five of those goals coming in the second period. Continued strong play by Kraken goaltender Philipp Grubauer and the Seattle defenseman kept the Stars at bay, while the Kraken skaters tore through Dallas.

The Seattle Sounders dropped their first match at home and fell to a Sporting KC club that had not won a game yet in MLS Regular season play. Kansas City had sat at the bottom of the Western Conference, but they were able to jump out to a two goal lead in the first half.