race
November 19, 2021
Changing the law
Enoka Herat works with law enforcement leaders and the families of people who have died from police violence to change practices in Washington.
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.
May 11, 2021
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.
The adventure gap
Money isn’t the only challenge. Racist and classist gatekeeping of hiking spaces also impedes the ability to access the outdoors.
May 10, 2021
Vaccine equity
Nationwide, we’re falling short on distributing vaccines to the communities that need it most.
September 11, 2020
Our lives, disrupted
We asked three UW experts—a historian, a leader in education and an expert in infectious disease—how we might use this time of challenge and change to plan for a better future.
June 25, 2020
Uneven evictions
Who gets evicted in Washington? It depends on gender and race, a UW study reveals.
March 12, 2019
Abolished
How UW research convinced our state's highest court to toss out the death penalty.
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.
March 4, 2018
The man who made us look
Psychology professor Anthony Greenwald developed the Implicit Association Test, a rapid-fire survey that reveals the biases that lurk inside us.
March 1, 2017
Cancer calamity
Disparities in health care access hit communities of color hard—particularly when it comes to cancer.
February 28, 2017
Interrupting privilege
Students and alumni come together for 10-week workshop about race relations.
September 1, 2016
Personal question
Amelia Gavin’s great-grandmother lost two sets of twins in their infancies, a fact that haunts the social scientist as she studies the relationships of race, depression, stress and disparities in babies’ health at birth.
March 1, 2016
2015 shined a spotlight on race
After a year of intensifying protests, the UW opens a dialogue and takes action to promote equity.
June 1, 2015
I, too, am America
The first time I visited the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, I was swept with grief. It was the first point during our UW-led Civil Rights pilgrimage where we faced the reality that the price of being black had been paid with innocent lives.
March 1, 2008
40 years of change
In the mid-1960s, only two of the UW’s 1,734 professors were African Americans. Students of color made up only 4 percent of the total enrollment that year. That began to change on May 20, 1968, when students from the Black Student Union staged a sit-in at the office University President Charles E. Odegaard.
September 1, 2003
Shooters' bias
A UW experiment using primarily white and Asian college students found that people were more likely to shoot blacks than whites, even when the men were holding a harmless object such as a flashlight rather than a gun.
September 1, 2002
Admissions upheld
U.S. District Judge Thomas Zilly ruled that the University of Washington School of Law did not break any laws in a highly publicized “reverse discrimination” lawsuit.
June 1, 1998
Off the bench
Minorities and women are often left out of the science talent pool, says the UW's alumna of the year. It's time for a different game plan.
June 1, 1997
Reverse discrimination suit aimed at UW law school
Katuria E. Smith, '94, filed a lawsuit against the UW law school, claiming that she was a victim of racial discrimination when she was denied admission.
December 1, 1996
Blurring the lines
It’s time to recognize the struggle of multiracial Americans, author Maria Root says.
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."