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Thousands of shots are fired every year in Pittsburgh. The bullets fly from handguns and assault weapons, echoing past houses and schools. And the city's black communities experience an unequal share of the resulting chaos and trauma.
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.
Child advocates at a Pittsburgh event said arrests of students of color, LGBTQ youth, homeless students and students with disabilities must stop.
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.
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 See what PublicSource and other organizations have been talking about on social media during the Gwen's Girls Equity Summit.
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.
Troubling data is revealed in a new report funded by the FISA Foundation and The Heinz Endowments on the unequal struggle facing black girls in the Pittsburgh area.
The achievement gap between black and white students in Pittsburgh Public Schools remains. What are students and district leadership going to do about it?
For decades, Pittsburgh has handed out tax subsidies to private developers based on — gasp — friendships and political connections, Mayor Bill Peduto said Tuesday.
However, the city may put new standards in place beginning as early as next year that would bring those backroom deals into the spotlight.
