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The Pitt News

The University of Pittsburgh's Daily Student Newspaper

The Pitt News

Kenyatta Bundy performs a poem he wrote during the Pitt Progressives' open mic night in Nordy's Place on March 29. Elaina Zachos | Senior Staff Photographer

Pitt Progressives aims to fill gap in the left

By Amanda Reed / Contributing Editor April 11, 2017

Becca Tasker, a junior majoring in anthropology, first started researching civil rights in middle school. She had learned about the murder of Emmett Till, a 14-year-old African American boy who was...

Jill McDonnell painted Laura Andrea, a girl from Bolivia whose favorite color is pink. Courtesy of Jill McDonnell

Making memories: Pitt students paint portraits for underprivileged children

Jill McDonnell surveyed a set of portrait pictures laid out on a Hillman Library table and picked her next art subject based on their name and favorite color — the only information provided with the...

Celebration of 'America's Instrument' draws young and old alike

Celebration of ‘America’s Instrument’ draws young and old alike

By Sam Bojarski / Staff Writer November 11, 2013

In 1976, Frank Rossi joined an organization that had one goal: the preservation of America’s instrument — the banjo. It is no surprise that Rossi’s very own Pittsburgh Banjo Club shares the same...

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