Race and Equity

The prestigious prize recognizes Taylor’s distinguished career and his commitment to researching, preserving, and promoting the history of African Americans in the PNW.

Quintard Taylor, professor emeritus of history, on Centralia's founding father and his unique place in history.

The alt-right has an unlikely new martyr in the culture wars: A Harvard-educated engineer in the heart of Silicon Valley. Margaret O'Mara, a history professor at the UW, is quoted. 

Meet Jessica Ramirez: The UW alum fighting for human rights and social justice alongside the first indigenous-led farm worker union in WA State. 

UW sociology professor Katherine Beckett's research is mentioned in this editorial from Seattle Councilmember, Sally Bagshaw, about "Fair Chance Housing" legislation. 

Op-ed by Christopher Parker of the Department of Political Science

Punitive discipline, inadequate curriculum, and declining federal funding created an education crisis.

Salon talks to Christopher Parker about why the Democrats should "play the race card" in the next election

Forty percent of women of color said that they felt unsafe in their current job as a result of harassment about their gender.

In an era when the growth in the population of blacks, Latinos and Asians outpaces that of whites nationwide, a new study of who lives where provides insight into the geography of race.

UW political science professor, Christopher Parker, was one of the few to foresee Donald Trump's win–and the likely reasons why. 

Historians of labor, working class to convene at UW

Alexes Harris of UW department of sociology weighs in on a potential fee waiver for indigent and other needy criminal defendants in Los Angeles County.

UW sociology researcher, Tim Thomas, on a migration of historic proportions—African-Americans leaving central Seattle and being pushed south, driven by high rents.

The award recognizes community-building projects like Women Who Rock and American Sabor that creates new forms of scholarship.