According to the Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh, a Black reporter at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette has been recently barred from covering Black Lives Matters protests. Pittsburgh City Paper obtained a letter that was sent to members of the Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh, which is the union that represents 140 journalists at the P-G...

On Fri., June 5, for the third time since the start of the pandemic, Bandcamp is waiving a share of its sales to support artists impacted by COVID-19. Musicians in Pittsburgh are taking it a step further...

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Video Archive Barack Obama's virtual Town Hall meeting from yesterday has raised Lynn's spirits...

On Monday night, Pittsburgh Police fired rubber bullets or bean bags and tear gas at a crowd of about 100 protesters marching on Centre Avenue in East Liberty. Public safety officials claim they needed to use crowd-control equipment to break up the march, which they called a “splinter group” that had vandalized storefronts in the neighborhood, and initiated throwing rocks and bottles at the police...

On Wednesday afternoon, the East Liberty Presbyterian Church hosted a silent, peaceful vigil for George Floyd and other victims of fatal police brutality. Over 200 people gathered outside the church, which takes up a city block, wrapping around all sides of the building...

You Don’t Have to Go to Mars for Love by Yona Harvey Yona Harvey's list of writing achievements is lengthy: she is one of the first Black women to write for Marvel Comics, and her works of poetry have won numerous awards, including the Kate Tufts Discovery Award for her first poetry collection, Hemming the Water...

UPDATE —  3:30 p.m., June 3: Number of today's new confirmed positive cases in Allegheny County: 24...

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Video Archive A moment between a protester and National Guardsmen yesterday moved Lynn, and she's talking about the powerful moment today...

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Even when we reach the green phase, you still should be scrubbing your hands for 20 seconds. (Don’t make us go back to red or yellow, people!)

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When the pandemic forced events to close, many Pittsburgh arts organizations moved programming online. Can you find some of our favorites?

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The letters of the words above are in the wrong order! Clean them up by figuring out what words they spell and write them in the boxes below the letters...

A Pittsburgh fill-in-the-blank puzzle inspired by Mad Libs

No matter what stage of the pandemic you’re in, the masks stay on and the social distancing continues. Whether you’re in the red, yellow, or green phase, we created some fun coloring and activity pages to fill the time while you’re stuck at home waiting for your favorite events and business to reopen...

Today, a group of about 300 protesters marched from Downtown to the Allegheny County Jail and then on to South Side in a peaceful march that ended without incident. The march was led by the group Pittsburgh I Can’t Breathe, a grassroots organization that was recently created in response to the death of George Floyd, a Black man killed last week by a Minneapolis Police officer, and Breonna Taylor, a Black woman killed in March by police in Louisville...