SOCIAL JUSTICE
A century after the Pittsburgh Agreement, Czechs and Slovaks are both celebrating and protesting
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Pittsburgh is 4,500 miles and an ocean away from Slovakia and the Czech Republic, but they are inextricably linked.
Let's talk about RACE
I’m a slow learner when it comes to race, but I’m trying.
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I am a 61-year-old white guy who grew up near the border of Eight Mile Road on the white side of Detroit, so I've had a lot to learn and I keep learning it.
FIRST PERSON
As a visa ‘dependent,’ it is hard to feel welcome
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I moved to Pittsburgh from Germany about a year ago as the wife of a science nomad. For my husband, coming here meant giving his career a real boost. For me, it meant a range of limitations that I think no adult should be subjected to.
Let's talk about RACE
The police officers behind the senseless killings of black men nationwide are not only bad examples, they’re dream killers
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Editor’s Note: As journalists, we spend a lot of time talking with officials and community members and distilling it into stories that explore important issues of our time. But we realize that sometimes it is just more powerful to hear it straight from the source. This is one of those times. The essay is a special feature timed for Mother's Day and the Brown Mamas Monologues* happening May 12. For as long as I can remember, my son Dion has wanted to be a football player and a policeman (and a pizza maker and a race car driver).
The Fix
The Fix: A daughter’s pain. A mother’s addiction.
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The effects of heroin addiction on a mother-daughter relationship.
The Fix
The Fix: In the hypocrisy of the opioid epidemic, white means victim, black means addict.
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You don’t have to dig very deep into the so-called “opioid epidemic” to find the hypocrisy and the insult to people of color.
FIRST PERSON
An immigrant’s relationship status with Facebook post-data breach? It’s complicated.
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The decision to deactivate my Facebook account is hard, especially given that a lot of Facebook friends live thousands and thousands of miles away. .
Teen Voices
My family left Wilkinsburg. But it’s still our community, and I hope it flourishes.
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Just like many other communities, Wilkinsburg has its issues and things that need to change. When we put our minds and ideas together, I do not doubt for a second that Wilkinsburg can become a better place — a safer and cleaner community where kids can continue to play games in their yards and parents don’t have to worry about stray bullets or loose dogs. Because they will know Wilkinsburg is a better place.
Teen Voices
Rising LGBTQ+ representation signals growth but also highlights that more must be done
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Some may be reading this with a quizzical look. What is queer representation? Why does it matter?
Queer representation— accurate queer representation at that — is the presence of members in the LGBTQ+ community in media.
Let's talk about RACE
My 6-year-old grandson thought a book character’s skin was ‘too dark.’ Here’s how I handled it.
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When my 6-year-old grandson told me he didn’t like the African-American girl in a book about diverse children because she was ‘too dark,’ I felt like the protagonist in the French film “Amélie” when she transformed into water and dropped into a huge puddle on the floor. I was devastated — shocked, angry, surprised and, most importantly, stumped.