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Sara Porkalob on the Origin of Seattle's Coalition Activism

Season 2 Episode 1 | 2m 51s

Playwright Sara Porkalob tells Marcus about her quirky grandmother, her upcoming theater series, and the origins of coalition activism in Seattle, forged in the wake of racist miscegenation laws targeting African- Americans and Filipino-Americans people in the 1930's.

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