Coverage of the ongoing movement for racial justice, including protests in Seattle and across the United States over systemic racism and police violence against Black people.
The Seattle Police Department needs to find a better way to interact with anti-police demonstrators, including changing policies to allow officers to express solidarity with...
Gloria Richardson, whose work as a civil rights leader in Maryland in the early 1960s served as a bridge between the nonviolent activism of Martin...
An investigative journalist who won a Pulitzer Prize for work on the bitter legacy of slavery in the U.S. will not join the faculty at...
They've convened conversations, changed policies and created permanent murals in their schools. For this and more, three Seattle Public Schools students and recent graduates have...
New Zealand's government is apologizing for a dark part of the nation's history known as the Dawn Raids. Pacific Island people were targeted for deportation...
Last year's mass protests, combined with the pandemic, took a toll: Officer retirements soared and hiring slowed. Now recruiters are increasingly looking for a different...
Portland, city of bridges, bike lanes and left-leaning idealists — loved, hated, caricatured — is wrestling with policing and what it means to make a...
The intersection of 38th Street and Chicago Avenue had been closed to traffic since Floyd’s death on May 25, 2020, but some residents and businesses...
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