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Opinion | We need to talk about the real emotions of speaking up as a minority

By Grace Harris, Staff Columnist • October 16, 2023

Grace Harris talks about the absence of conversation surrounding the guilt and anxiety that minorities feel after speaking up.

Opinion | Witnessing discrimination in a white workplace

By Lynnette Tibbott, Staff Columnist • February 20, 2023

People, especially those who say awful comments, tend to project their hate onto other people. However, if you don’t speak out, you’re letting the other person know that you will not argue with them.

Opinion | Kanye isn’t a ‘free thinker.’ He’s a mouthpiece.

By Paul Beer, Staff Columnist • October 24, 2022

West fails to provide any substantive ideas to the conversation of Black empowerment. He is simply restating hateful rhetoric that only propagates more racism in America.

Editorial | History should be taught the way it happened, no matter how bad it is

By The Pitt News Editorial Board • September 8, 2021

To limit its teaching in school classrooms is to blatantly ignore the struggles of generations of Americans and is a step backwards in recent progress in school curriculum reform.

‘Heartbreaking’: Panel discusses rise in anti-Asian violence during pandemic

By Allison Radziwon, Staff Writer • March 17, 2021

Pitt’s department of sociology, Global Hub and Asian Studies Center co-sponsored a Monday panel titled “Combatting Anti-Asian Violence Amidst COVID-19” to raise awareness about the increase in anti-Asian violence during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Opinion | The model minority myth is downplaying anti-Asian hate crimes

By Nithya Achanta, For The Pitt News • March 10, 2021

Stereotypes have proven to be very problematic when it comes to the handling of recent anti-Asian hate crimes.

Poetry | New Face

By Ajani Powell, Staff Columnist • November 13, 2020

Columnist Ajani Powell shares a poem exploring issues surrounding mental health, racism and COVID.

Opinion | Trump’s a racist — vote him out

By Devi Ruia, Senior Staff Columnist • October 5, 2020

Voting for Trump is giving a rubber stamp to his harmful and unprecedented rhetoric and policies.

Some classics translations skirt conversations about race, Yale professor says

By Martha Layne, Assistant News Editor • September 30, 2020

Greenwood’s Monday afternoon talk, “Overthrowing Deadly Metaphors,” kicked off the Center for African American Poetry and Poetics’ week of Black Study Intensive sessions. The event featured Greenwood presenting her unpublished paper on the language of Aristotle, as well as discussion with Greenwood moderated by Dan Kubis, senior English literature lecturer.

Op-Ed | Grappling with systemic racism

By Jack Daniel, Retired Pitt administrator • July 7, 2020

Jack Daniel, the first chair of Pitt’s Africana Studies department, says in an op-ed that we in America, and at Pitt, must confront an elephant in the room.