Social Justice

The mayor and the tenor: when Masloff met Pavarotti

By some metrics, Fox Chapel is a sundown town

How local organizers for Palestine are holding onto hope

A consent order brings the Allegheny County Jail close to wide-reaching mental healthcare changes

Wilkinsburg police shot Todd Robinson in 2017. Has justice finally been served in his case?

A forgotten 1909 incident shows how Pittsburgh has — and hasn't — moved on from racialized violence

Near-total isolation of juvenile girls at the ACJ raises concerns of illegal solitary confinement

ACJ inmates allege inadequate medical care. Legal experts see a human rights issue

Downtown's Pitt Building to become a Black-owned business incubator

Students take calls for a Gaza ceasefire from campus to Harrisburg

Meet the diverse Pittsburghers calling for peace in Gaza

A year and a half post-Dobbs, abortion organizing networks lift up local clinics

The Millvale Food + Energy Hub reopens to celebrate local nonprofits

Highwoods wants the Soul Food Festival out of PPG Place. Organizers say that's discrimination

How to support Pittsburgh's Jewish community this Giving Tuesday five years after the Tree of Life attack

What Britney Spears, and Allegheny County voters, show about the abortion movement today

A sex-trafficking bust in Monroeville has led one survivor to speak out

Here’s what local Pittsburgh nonprofits actually need this season

Former ACJ inmates with psychiatric disabilities settle for $120,000 in excessive force lawsuit

Art by and for everybody: meet the Disabled Artists Creative Cohort