Social Justice

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.

The class #BlackLivesMatter in Media and Popular Culture — offered this spring — is one of very few like it in the country.

UW history professor, Jim Gregory, on the election, activism, and historical perspective.

What's next for communication professor David Domke? Championing the causes he values and that are under attack today.

UW professor Quintard Taylor is blowing students’ minds in class and with his website devoted to black history.

The interplay of race and capitalism will be the focus of a year-long investigation by UW scholars thanks to a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

A California woman who’s never traveled to Spokane is asking city leaders to pressure the South Korean government to end the practice of trading dog meat for consumption.

Ruchika Tulshyan, lecturer of communication at the UW, and Tracey Whitten of The Seattle Women's Commission are quoted.

One of the newest chew toys in the presidential campaign is “implicit bias,” a term Mike Pence repeatedly took exception to in the vice-presidential debate on Tuesday.

University of Oregon founding father Matthew Deady was a hard-bitten racist who never disavowed slavery but who shielded innocent and vulnerable Chinese immigrants from violent mobs.

Are police making too many stops for minor issues, and could the number of violent confrontations between police and civilians be reduced by reducing the number of confrontations over all?

"Those who forget history, it's been said, are condemned to repeat it. We're barely through the halfway point, however, and 2016's already been a year many people would rather forget,"

"Despite its current focus on addressing police brutality, BLM’s agenda isn’t confined to this issue.

In this radio interview, Jackson School Director Reşat Kasaba discusses U.S. relations with Turkey, and the politics behind and what's ahead following the attempted coup in Turkey on July 15.