The autonomous zone’s evolution from a somber protest site to street festival highlights the problem Seattle’s Black residents say they face: The city’s overwhelmingly white population ...

If you were Black, you knew where you belonged, and it sure wasn’t around white people, unless you happened to be working for them. Seattle had its own form of segregation, with Black people ...

We were 92 percent white in 1960 and by 2010 we were down to 65 percent. As Seattle urbanizes and the U.S. population ... The Central Area, once virtually all black, is being rapidly gentrified. Big ...

On a map, Seattle is a blue dot – often ... Area that were headed for predominantly white schools in the North End. What is it like to be black in the fifth whitest major city in America?

Carolyn Bourdeaux, who is White. In one of the state’s three current majority-Black districts, the new map reduces the percentage of Black adults from 52.2 percent to 46.8 percent — though it ...