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November 26, 2023
Delivering hope
A UW program works to improve maternal health outcomes for Black women and other underserved community members.
May 28, 2023
The Gen Z's and me
"How wonderful to return to campus and see that the arc of Black history, despite ongoing struggles, still bends toward justice," Audrey Edwards writes.
November 27, 2022
A medical emergency
The UW struggles to enroll Black medical students—a trend that is playing out across the nation.
November 26, 2022
Dorothy Hollingsworth, 1920-2022
“She was a maverick, and she placed the most vulnerable and marginalized populations—primarily women and children—at the center of her work.”
September 9, 2022
Story of Black Seattle
Quintard Taylor tells the stories of Seattle’s small, but influential Black community.
September 4, 2022
UW’s Brotherhood Initiative builds a community of success for men of color
As the UW’s Brotherhood Initiative grows—and welcomes a counterpart Sisterhood Initiative—students like senior Noah Stanigar continue to soar.
March 4, 2022
Mentor to many
Millie L.B. Russell, who passed away in November, helped generations of BIPOC students become medical professionals.
December 4, 2021
A call to action
Associate Professor Wendy Barrington, '12, brings a passion for health equity to her role as director of the Center for Anti-Racism and Community Health.
November 19, 2021
Remembering the Spratlens
Thaddeus Spratlen and Lois Price-Spratlen were the UW’s academic power couple—excelling as scholars and opening up opportunities for others.
Nursing leader’s legacy
One of Seattle’s few Black nurses in the 1940s, Rachel Suggs Pitts helped create a network of support for her colleagues and nursing students.
Beacon in the HUB
While Black fraternities and sororities have thrived at the UW, their presence has gone generally unrecognized. Now their crests are on display in the HUB.
October 21, 2021
Personalizing care
Margaret Towolawi, ’10, adopts a new model for health care that promotes closer doctor-patient relationships.
August 31, 2021
A distinguished legacy
Thaddeus Spratlen was a trailblazing business educator, a prolific scholar, a mentor and role model for generations of students.
July 22, 2021
A fresh lens on QTPOC life
Through feature films, groundbreaking documentaries and shorts, a UW librarian creates a canon of meaningful representation in American cinema.
June 4, 2021
Can’t hold him back
From radical youth to senior statesman, Larry Gossett is an activist for us all. The 2021 Alumnus Summa Laude Dignatus award recognizes his lifetime of service.
May 11, 2021
Building opportunity
The Black Opportunity Fund addresses the harmful legacies that colonialism, racism, white supremacy and racial capitalism have on Black communities.
Radical works
A little-seen series by Jacob Lawrence, one of the country’s most celebrated Black artists and one of the UW’s most beloved art professors, is now on view at the Seattle Art Museum.
Building brotherhood
Last June, 17 students from the first Brotherhood Initiative cohort graduated, and now three more classes of young men are following in their footsteps.
May 10, 2021
Diversity takes work
In the recent years, the UW has seen the highest racial and gender diversity among students in its history, “and yet we have fallen short on our faculty diversity efforts."
March 11, 2021
Charles V. Johnson, 1928-2020
Colleagues remember the remarkable life of Charles V. Johnson, ’57.
June 3, 2019
The Great American Barrier
An encounter between a black social worker and Kirkland police raises questions as old as America.
March 1, 2019
The identity solution
PilotED, an elementary school in Indianapolis, believes identity and civic engagement could transform the educational landscape, especially for students of color.
September 1, 2000
Jacob Lawrence, 1917-2000
Jacob Lawrence rose from a rough childhood to become one of America's most passionate chroniclers of the African-American experience.
December 1, 1999
True West
Most of us don't have a clue about the African-American experience in the West. Quintard Taylor's goal is to set us straight.
December 1, 1995
Reviving a theater tradition
The revival of a 1936 black drama, part of a controversial New Deal project, fulfills the dream of one determined UW director.
June 1, 1994
Being black at UW
To preserve the memories of other African-American students, we interviewed black alumni who went here during the '30s, '40s, '50s, '60s, '70s and '80s.
March 1, 1993
Insights on race
"The challenge for America is how to live in peace with its different people. If that's not solved, the country is really in trouble."