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.
DATA
In transracial adoptions, differences should be embraced—not ignored
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In 2012, 916 of the 1,941 children the Pennsylvania Adoption Exchange Council served were black, while only 6 percent of adoptive families were black, which means that sometimes, white families adopt black children, and, in doing so, begin building their families through transracial adoption.
IN-DEPTH
Here’s what it’s like to be an immigrant and move to Pittsburgh on a work visa
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Living in America on a work visa, especially as a single mom, as Angélica Ocampo, president and CEO of the World Affairs Council of Pittsburgh attests, is living in uncertainty. Your life hanging on a thread, “that any day you could be three weeks away from a plane back to your home country.”
DATA
There are ways to end the school-to-prison pipeline. Child advocates offer solutions in Pittsburgh.
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Child advocates at a Pittsburgh event said arrests of students of color, LGBTQ youth, homeless students and students with disabilities must stop.
DEVELOP PGH
Is it too late for equitable development in some parts of Pittsburgh?
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diversity Equitable development is the central theme of this year’s p4 conference, sponsored by the Pittsburgh mayor’s office and The Heinz Endowments. It means as Pittsburgh grows and prospers, every kind of resident — rich/poor, black/white — should equally prosper from that success. The tide lifting all boats.
DATA
The Pittsburgh police force has gone through a ‘rewhitening.’ Find out what the city is doing to recruit minority officers.
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Today, the bureau is predominantly white and male. The agency has struggled for years to become diverse again and mirror the breakdown of the city’s population.
Diversity
Gwen’s Girls summit highlights how suspensions derail black girls’ education
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“I am not a label / I am not a symptom,” Jayla Youngblood read to the room of about 200 people at the Gwen's Girls Equity Summit on Friday. “I am not a sickness, so please stop trying to tell the story of my life / unless you fight the battles that I fight and know how it feels to be me.”
On the beat
Relive the Gwen’s Girls Equity Summit through what was discussed on social media
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diversity See what PublicSource and other organizations have been talking about on social media during the Gwen's Girls Equity Summit.
DATA
A story of two girls: Why being black means more scrutiny and punishment in Pittsburgh schools
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Why does Kelis Campbell feel pressure to work twice as hard as so many others? She realized it in the seventh grade. Simple reasons: She is black. And she is a woman. Just basic identity.
