Aftermath: Synagogue attack
Violence will not stop me. I will wear my necklace with its Jewish star, proudly and unafraid.
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What happened this weekend is an abomination. A sacred space, a sanctuary, desecrated.
FIRST PERSON
Listen to Black girls. They know what they need best.
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Edoukou Aka-Ezoua reflects on her experience meeting other young black women at the 3rd Annual Equity Summit.
FIRST PERSON
Black girls are left out of national debate on sexual violence
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Despite the fact that the #MeToo campaign was founded by Tarana Burke, a Black woman activist, this anti-sexual violence campaign has largely overlooked the sexual harassment of Black girls in K-12 schools.
FIRST PERSON
What looks like a move to curtail police violence by PA Democrats is yet another police stimulus package
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Consistent with historical evidence, the most recent set of Pittsburgh policing data provides a small scope of the reality of existing while Black in Pittsburgh.
SOCIAL JUSTICE
First-person essay: Why we believe Christine Blasey Ford
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We believe Dr. Blasey because when women bravely come forward, they are often blamed. They are accused of wearing the wrong thing, of being in the wrong place, of asking for it. Victims are also accused of lying. Yet evidence shows that only 2 to 10 percent of rape reports are false accusations, a rate that matches reporting of other types of crimes.
FIRST PERSON
ALS stole much from my husband, but not his sense of humor.
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We never had a break in this constantly changing landscape. The realization that he was dying, piece by piece, was horrible, and there was nothing anyone could do about it.
FIRST PERSON
Getting a hysterectomy in a world-class healthcare city like Pittsburgh should be easy. Trust me, it’s not.
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Compelling personal stories
told by the people living them. When I learned that I would need a hysterectomy at age 47, I anticipated bumps in the road — but only of the medical sort. I didn’t foresee the ways in which institutional issues would complicate my recovery. I’m a lesbian in a 15-plus year relationship with another woman. We have no children by design.
FIRST PERSON
From Ramadi to Pittsburgh: How Mustafa persisted through sanctions, bombings, ISIS and personal tragedy
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I hope love and prosperity return to Iraq soon. I hope to see my family, relatives and friends find stability.
FIRST PERSON
I, too, was a child separated from my mother by the broken U.S. immigration system.
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We — the children of parents who at one point made the difficult decision to leave our home countries due to crime, poverty and abuse — are humans and we have a voice.