Local author and activist Shaun Scott discusses his new book, “Heartbreak City: Seattle Sports and the Unmet Promise of Urban Progress” with journalist Kurt Streeter. In “Heartbreak City,” Shaun Scott takes the reader through 170 years of Seattle history, chronicling both well-known and long-forgotten events, like the establishment of racially segregated golf courses and neighborhoods in the regressive 1920s and the 1987 Seahawks players’ strike that galvanized organized labor. At every step of the journey, he uncovers how sports have both united Seattle in pursuit of triumph and revealed its most profound political divides. Shaun’s writings about sports, politics, and popular culture have appeared in Sports Illustrated, The Guardian, and elsewhere. Kurt Streeter is a West Coast-based national correspondent for the New York Times, focusing on identity in America. More info: Shaun Scott presents “Heartbreak City” in conversation with Kurt Streeter | Event Calendar (spl.org)
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