There’s a new Seattle sports tradition: During the seventh-inning stretch, the Mariners play Grammy Award–winning rapper Macklemore’s track “Can’t Hold Us.” The song and the artist mean more to Seattle than most outsiders understand. Macklemore, 41, born Ben Haggerty, is a Seattle native, and over the last dozen years has become as much a city institution as the Space Needle. Being a white rapper, with all the privilege that entails, he pays extra mind—and focuses his foundation work—on issues facing Black, brown, and other marginalized communities…..more
