Race and Gender

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.

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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...

Business

February 8, 2018 at 6:00 am

She doesn’t care that her boyfriend wears lingerie. But her friend won’t stop pestering her about it | Dear Carolyn

How to deal with persistent friend? An unambiguous “Drop it,” and enforce a zero-further-discussion policy, writes Carolyn Hax.

Life

February 5, 2018 at 7:59 am

Holocaust denier likely to be GOP nominee for Congress

CHICAGO (AP) — An outspoken Holocaust denier is likely to appear on the November ballot as the Republican nominee for a Chicago-area congressional district. The...

Seattle Times columnist Jerry Large, Wed., Oct. 22, 2014, in Seattle.

February 4, 2018 at 12:00 pm

Auburn beating shows racist ideas can inhabit bodies of any color | Jerry Large

Anyone can commit a racist hate crime because anyone can be tainted by the ideology that defines people by race.

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