Pittsburgh media lost the voices of several African-American journalists during one of the most critical moments for race in U.S. history. Here are their stories.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: What It Means to Be a Black Journalist in Pittsburgh Right Now
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette barred two black journalists from protest coverage after one jokingly compared the aftermath of a concert tailgate to city looting.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: How Cities Offload the Cost of Police Brutality
Cities spend tens of millions of dollars on lawsuits over police violence and killings. But municipalities are effectively using residents to mortgage the cost.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: The Toxic Intersection of Racism and Public Space
For black men like Christian Cooper, the threat of a call to police casts a cloud of fear over parks and public spaces that others associate with safety.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: ‘Coronaman’ Is the Horror Spoof PSA Georgia Needs
With Georgia lifting shelter-in-place restrictions, Atlanta filmmaker Bobby Huntley II’s spoof trailer “Coronaman” takes a different tack on a stay-home PSA.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: What Happens to Democracy When Schools Close
A forthcoming book documents how politically active communities became disengaged after local schools were shuttered. Now, more schools may face permanent closure.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: U.K. Told Immigrants ‘Go Home,’ But Now It Needs Them
Immigrant deportation policies forced some nurses and medical support workers out of the U.K. before the coronavirus pandemic. Now the U.K. needs them.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: How America Has Racialized Medicine During Epidemics
As data emerges that African Americans are suffering disproportionately from Covid-19, medical practices from past epidemics shed light on a history of racism.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: These States Are Sowing Confusion About Cities’ Power to Fight Covid-19
Mixed messages on the legal concept of preemption are confusing cities that want to pass stronger Covid-19 actions, like closed beaches and shelter in place.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: A State Besieged by Coronavirus Asks Police to Slow Arrests
Despite Covid-19’s spread in New Orleans, police have recently increased arrests for nonviolent crimes. Louisiana’s top court could put a stop to that.