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Maria Manautou-Matos sits in Mellon Green Park in Downtown Pittsburgh in a blue shirt and white pants on September 29, 2023. She started going there during her lunchbreak when she worked in the area to meditate and dream. It is where the idea of Presente was born. (Photo by Amaya Lobato Rivas/PublicSource).

Three incidents made me feel like an outsider in Pittsburgh — and drove me to make other Latinos feel included

by Maria Manautou-Matos October 6, 2023October 7, 2023

Presente’s Pittsburgh Latino Magazine, founded by Maria Manautou-Matos, was born to help connect, celebrate, and empower Latino communities in Allegheny County.

Brook Emery, left, and Anita Zhu, stand outside of Deer Lakes High School where they are both seniors on Sept. 27, 2023, in Cheswick. The two started KFIVE tutoring as a way to pass on the lessons they have learned from adversity. (Photo by Stephanie Strasburg/PublicSource)

From pink pencil to nonprofit: How a writing utensil ignited a passion for tutoring in our community

by Anita Zhu and Brook Emery September 29, 2023September 29, 2023

A bike standing in front of a dimly lit building

The accident that changed a city

by Robert Isenberg August 30, 2023August 30, 2023

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A high school senior’s perspective on how adults frame gender roles and talking with teens about sexual safety | S4, Ep. 3

by Jourdan Hicks November 9, 2022December 20, 2022

Am I next? If you don’t have a body like mine, that question might not haunt you.

by First-person essay by Ashanti McLaurin October 21, 2022October 25, 2022

Jeffrey Shockley (Courtesy of Prison Journalism Project)

Programming in Pennsylvania prisons gave this lifer purpose

by Jeffrey Shockley October 10, 2022October 7, 2022

Avoid the ‘bad’ kid? Or invite them back to the team? Imagine that’s your child

by First-person essay by Maria as told to Lajja Mistry September 30, 2022September 29, 2022

Kaycee takes photos in her college bedroom depicting how she felt after the incident of sexual violence. A shadow falls over her face, illuminating only a strip of her features and a strip of the blank wall behind her. She looks off to the right of the frame.

The videos on his phone taught me that it can happen to anyone

by First-person essay and photos by Kaycee Orwig September 26, 2022October 4, 2022

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Pittsburgh’s Black Muslim history uncovered.

by Jourdan Hicks May 6, 2021May 6, 2021

Jeffrey Bolden stands looking at the camera with his back facing a shelf of books at the Lawrenceville Branch of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh.

Mental Warfare: What I recognized in the eyes of Nipsey Hussle’s alleged killer

by First-person essay by Jeffrey Bolden February 5, 2020November 5, 2021