Katie Blackley
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90.5 WESA
Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh have launched a new six-week training program to guide white parents through conversations with their children about race and racism.
Senator John Heinz History Center
Kimberly Paynter
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WHYY
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The country auctions in Lancaster County began in the 1960s. These days some get thousands of bidders and can do more than a million dollars in sales. The auctions benefit local fire departments. -
Penn State’s College of Liberal Arts is marking the 100th anniversary of a restrictive U.S. immigration law with a new theme of its "Moments of Change" initiative. -
The district's board approved two resolutions restricting students’ access to sports teams and shared bathrooms separate from the ones that correspond with the sex they were assigned at birth. -
The nanas program targets those students, many of whom frequently miss school because their families lack the transportation or resources to get them there otherwise. -
Buprenorphine is prescribed far less in racially and ethnically diverse areas, according to new study from Pitt researchers. -
The Women's Law Project, along with lawyers at the Community Justice Project, filed the brief earlier this week on behalf of Lebo Pride, a local LGBTQ advocacy group. -
According to district data obtained through a Right-To-Know request, nearly 603,000 hours of missed services are owed to current students with disabilities alone. -
A new report, launched after a 2020 Spotlight PA investigation, finds students of color face racial harassment and stereotypes in the classrooms of Pennsylvania’s public universities. -
When 33-year-old Miguel Barragan shows up to the kitchen at Texas Roadhouse, people know to get out of his way. Next month, he's competing nationally in a very specific kind of competition — one that he's been dominating this year. -
"Soul to Soul," a National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene production celebrating the ties between Black and Jewish Americans, is coming to Pittsburgh.
