![The Black Action Society: Demanding Change, Then and Now](https://pittnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Sil_BASLeaders1_PS-900x600.jpg)
The Black Action Society: Demanding Change, Then and Now
By Natalie Frank, Rebecca Johnson, Sinead McDevitt, and Jon Moss
• May 26, 2021
![Pitt’s Bradford campus, the Office for Equity, Diversity and Inclusion, the Center on Race and Social Problems and the Black Action Society sponsored a panel Thursday afternoon called “The Black Impact: Black Faculty and Administrators’ Influence on Black Student Success.” Fellow members of the Black Pitt community, including faculty, students and administrators attended.](https://pittnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/N_Black-Impact_Via-900x600.png)
‘The same fire’: Black students, faculty discuss diversity, activism on campus
By Rebecca Johnson, News Editor
• February 26, 2021
![Black student leaders from colleges around Pittsburgh came together to discuss racial equity on their respective campuses. Jasiri X, the executive director and co-founder of 1Hood Media, moderated the event.](https://pittnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/N_Town-Hall_Via-900x506.jpg)
‘No way we can do this alone’: Panel uplifts local Black student leaders
By Maura Scrabis, For The Pitt News
• August 30, 2020
![According to Pitt data, Black students represented 5.26% of the undergraduate student body in 2019.](https://pittnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/N_blackstudentenrollment_KO-1-900x600.jpg)
‘Embarrassing’: Black student leaders criticize low Black student enrollment
By Rebecca Johnson and Jon Moss
• August 26, 2020
![Ibram Kendi, author of the 2019 book “How to Be an Antiracist,” discusses anti-racism during a Wednesday event as part of the Diversity Forum series.](https://pittnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/N_DFKendi_Via-900x563.png)
‘Allow us the space to be Black’: Diversity forum talks anti-racism with Ibram Kendi
By Benjamin Nigrosh, News Editor
• July 29, 2020
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