Race and Gender

June 21, 2019 at 7:12 am

Court tosses black man’s murder conviction over racial bias

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Friday threw out the murder conviction and death sentence for a black man in Mississippi because of a...

June 18, 2019 at 12:24 pm

Study: NBA earns overall A grade in diversity hiring

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A diversity report shows the NBA still leads men's professional sports leagues in racial and gender hiring practices. The annual report...

Sports

May 28, 2019 at 12:12 pm

Gillette ad shows father teaching his transgender son to shave

The commercial marks Gillette's latest foray into a cultural or political issue. Ads decrying toxic masculinity and celebrating inclusivity have thrust the company into vigorous...

Nation & World

August 13, 2018 at 6:00 am

Seattle city workers tell of unfair treatment and mistrust, as government tracks diversity shortfalls

A new report and survey are part of an effort by Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan to learn how city-government employees are being treated.

Taken May 17, 2018, this is the Seattle skyline, looking North. The Smith Tower is at right. 206324

July 18, 2018 at 6:00 am

As King County diversifies, people of Asian descent made up the majority of growth last year | FYI Guy

New census data show King County continuing on a path toward greater racial diversity as its population booms to nearly 2.19 million people.

Times file, April 8, 1968: Martin Luther King Jr. Day

April 4, 2018 at 6:00 am

The injustices MLK fought are still present in Seattle today | Jerry Large | Jerry Large WATCH

Injustices that caused strong reactions to the death of MLK 50 years ago today may look different but, sadly, are still present in our community.

Local News

Seattle Times columnist Jerry Large. (Ken Lambert/The Seattle Times)

April 3, 2018 at 2:57 pm

Retiring Seattle Times columnist Jerry Large discusses his career and takes reader questions WATCH

The Seattle Times’ Jerry Large is hanging up his columnist hat after 36 years. As part of his farewell, he sat down for a Facebook...

Local News

April 1, 2018 at 6:00 am

An inspired dive into ‘American Histories’ and race

John Edgar Wideman's latest book feels like a coda to his impressive body of work, He deftly incorporates a range of black names from the...

March 4, 2018 at 11:56 pm

Frances McDormand brings ‘inclusion rider’ into spotlight

LOS ANGELES (AP) — When Frances McDormand capped her Oscar acceptance speech with a rousing call for inclusion riders, the general reaction was more "huh?"...

Nation & World

Joy Buolamwini, a researcher at the MIT Media Lab in Cambridge, Mass., Feb. 1, 2018. In a new study that measured how facial recognition technology works on people of different races and gender, Buolamwini calculated that the technology makes more errors the darker the person’s skin is. â€œYou canâ€™t have ethical A.I. thatâ€™s not inclusive,â€ she said. â€œAnd whoever is creating the technology is setting the standards.â€ (Tony Luong/The New York Times)

February 18, 2018 at 5:00 pm

Facial-recognition technology works best if you’re a white guy, study says

Some commercial software can now tell the gender of a person in a photograph. When the photo is of a white man, the software is...

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