July 8, 2016 By Vivian Le Over the past few months, J.K. Rowling, author of the Harry Potter book series, has unveiled new information about her wildly popular magical world, detailing the […]
July 6, 2016 By Angelica Walker When I first realized that I had earned a full scholarship to my first-choice college, I wanted to tell everybody. As a black woman who grew […]
July 6, 2016 By Angelica Walker Over the past 50 years, America has slowly cycled through phases of socially accepted public racism, to behind-closed-doors racism, and then back again. After a decade […]
July 5, 2016 By Angelica Walker “What we need is unity. The only race I belong to is the human race!” said the white man. Acknowledge that as you ask us to […]
July 3, 2016 By Nijah Glenn On June 17th, a group of student activists gathered at the Pittsburgh Public School Board to discuss changes in school code for the benefit of current […]
July 2, 2016 By Angelica Walker *The following article is an expansion of a post previously published online here* What would you do for freedom? That was the theme of 2016’s Roots […]
June 13, 2016 By Christina Acuna Castillo As a Latina who could just as accurately be called a “person of color,” I have some trouble with identifying as such. It’s not that […]
June 8, 2016 By Angelica Walker This Sunday, Downtown Pittsburgh will be filled with rainbow flags, glitter, drag queens, and Christians. Representatives from more than 130 companies, nonprofits, universities, and places of […]
June 2, 2016 By: Angelica Walker What would you do for freedom? That’s the theme of 2016’s Roots Pride celebration. This year, Roots Pride will be asking Pittsburgh’s LGBTQIA+ community members to […]
June 1, 2016 By Vivian Le In cities all over the United States, neighborhoods that used to be predominantly populated by black and Latinx communities are now more likely to be homes […]
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