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The University of Pittsburgh's Daily Student Newspaper

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Opinion | Social media ruined Martin Luther King Jr. Day

Opinion | Social media ruined Martin Luther King Jr. Day

By Ebonee Rice, Staff Columnist January 27, 2022
Social media has allowed activism to become purely performative, especially during MLK Day.
Nicole E. W. Parks, African American Alumni Council President, welcomes guests at “Say It Loud.”

Black student organizations celebrate 50 years of pride, progress

By Neena Hagen, Staff Writer January 16, 2019
During the height of the Civil Rights movement, in 1969, 40 members from Pitt’s newly minted Black Action Society shut themselves inside a Cathedral of Learning computer lab for seven hours to protest racial injustices on campus.
(Photo via Wikimedia Commons)

Editorial: Post-Gazette editorial not representative of newspaper or city

By The Pitt News Editorial Board January 16, 2018

If the Pittsburgh Post-Gazettes’ Monday editorial “Reason as racism” put a bad taste in your mouth, you’re not alone. The editorial defended President Donald Trump’s inflammatory statement...

Junior communication and political science major Aaron Hill speaks in front of participants at Alpha Phi Alpha’s Martin Luther King Jr. Day candlelight vigil Monday night. (Photo by Thomas Yang | Visual Editor)

Students serve, remember on MLK Jr. day

A group of students from Pitt’s Litchfield Tower B offered a warm respite from the bitter cold as they served soups and sandwiches to hungry Homewood residents who visited the Bethesda Presbyterian Church...

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