PUBLIC SAFETY
Collaboration between residents and police can reduce gun violence. But trust is crucial.
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We must confront gun violence directly.
PUBLIC SAFETY
Black communities are disproportionately hurt by gun violence. We can’t ignore them.
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Solutions to gun violence must acknowledge racial inequities in our neighborhoods.
The Pittsburgh area has stark racial inequities. Black Pittsburghers face a key question: Should they leave?
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A recent report highlighted stark racial inequities in Pittsburgh. For Black residents in the area, a common question is whether they should stay or move away.
Pittsburgh proposes prioritizing parks in vulnerable communities as research on parks’ benefits grows
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Parks can improve the health of people and communities, but there's some skepticism that the city has more pressing priorities and shouldn't use a tax referendum for this cause.
Black women and femmes say Pittsburgh’s inequity report exemplifies the problem: Black voices are left out.
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Researchers, nonprofit leaders and advocates who gathered Monday continued to criticize a September report on racial and gender inequity for its predominantly white research team and the failure to engage Black leaders and community organizations already working on similar issues.
First person: Pittsburgh’s museums have a diversity problem.
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Pittsburgh art museums have a problem. The artists they amplify and the staff they employ are not diverse enough, which means that our communities and our city as a whole suffer as a result. Because our museums don’t accurately reflect our population, many of our residents aren’t being served.
I’m a third-generation Black female living in this Pittsburgh nightmare.
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Compelling personal stories
told by the people living them. When I was 6 years old, I sat cross-legged in my grandmother’s living room. My hands framed my face as I hung onto her every word. She told a story highlighting horrific ways human beings treated each other, and she described juxtaposed realities of the people who lived in the same town. I thought it was the next installment in a series of fables she was telling.
FIRST PERSON
Yes, Pittsburgh; it’s racism.
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Since Tuesday, the airwaves and Twittersphere have been full of Pittsburghers discussing the newly released report entitled, “Pittsburgh’s Inequality across Gender and Race.” After spending the last 10 months getting the most up-to-date, comprehensive data, developing a brand new methodological approach and writing a 96-page report about the current status of Pittsburgh’s gender and race inequality, I am glad radio hosts, TV news anchors, newspaper reporters and city residents are engaging with our findings. Yet, it is simultaneously infuriating to hear these same Pittsburghers attempt to rationalize the observed inequities and claim they are not “racism.”
COVERING CLIMATE NOW
Global town hall highlights importance of gender equity in climate change solutions
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To more effectively and fairly address climate change, gender and sustainability, advocates propose an important solution: include women at every level of the conversation.
At a global town hall on climate, gender and sustainability, speakers from Pittsburgh and around the world described the broader harm of ignoring women and gender minorities.
Pittsburgh’s Black residents feel consequences of inequality more starkly than in other U.S. cities, new city report finds
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New Pittsburgh report examines racial and gender inequality together for the first time.
