GlassCeiling: Inspiring girls to enter STEM, one trading card at a time
My roommate and I - two women of color - created GlassCeiling during the SheInnovates 36-hour Hackathon, and won the 3rd place prize....
Transgender Inmate Stages Hunger Strike Against San Francisco Jail’s Housing Policy
Note: This was written as an assignment for my Public Relations course. Some dates, quotations, and other small details have been...
Pennsylvania Begins Covering Gender Transition Care Under Medicaid
Image by Emma Lee for Newsworks Last week, Pennsylvania became the twelfth state to explicitly cover gender transition-related care in...
Profit Over People: Affordable Housing Torn Down for Whole Foods
Over the past year, more than 100 residents have been forced to move out of the Penn Plaza Apartments, one of the few affordable housing...
Clean Drinking Water is Now a Luxury
Photo by Joe Brusky of the Overpass Light Brigade This year, for the first time ever, Americans will drink more bottled water than soda....
White People “Offset their Privilege” with Gifts and Services on Reparations Website
When a United Nations panel of experts recommended the US government pay out cash reparations for slavery last February, most saw it as a...
Black Success Matters: How Affirmative Action Creates Equality
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 that...
Pride is Political: Roots Pride Celebrates Diversity in the LGBTQIA+ Community
What would you do for freedom? That was the theme of 2016’s Roots Pride celebration. The weeklong series of events urged Pittsburgh’s...
Over 2 Million Kids Spend Father's Day with Dad in Prison
America loves fathers. In response to a rising number of families led by single mothers and studies linking single motherhood to poverty,...
Allegheny County Jail Health Justice Project to Document Abuse via Survey and Documentary Film
"Our county jail is currently in a crisis... People are not getting the medicine that they need. People are not getting the care that...
