Michael Bennett and Denzel Glover Editor’s Note: This is part of our series exploring the juvenile justice landscape in Pittsburgh with a focus on education and mental health. These stories were funded by Staunton Farm…
Breaking the cycle: Addressing trauma and building resilience…
Maria Guido is a licensed clinical social worker at Wellness Warrior Group, an outpatient therapy practice specializing in the treatment of trauma. She writes that the juvenile criminal justice system and the child welfare system…
Book Excerpt, “Death in Custody: How America Ignores…
Roger A. Mitchell Jr., MD, and Jay D. Aronson, PhD. This month, Johns Hopkins University Press released “Death in Custody: How America Ignores the Truth and What We Can Do About It" by will be…
Pittsburgh Institute for Nonprofit Journalism turns two years old
By Brittany Hailer I started considering that PINJ was turning two in the wee hours of a maternity leave morning, and realized that my co-founder, Jody DiPerna, and I are not the best at patting…
Review of “We Shall Not Be Moved,” a…
by Matthew Benusa In May, 1985, the Philadelphia police dropped explosive devices onto the roof of the building occupied by the Black liberation MOVE organization. Fire spread through West Philadelphia. Six adults and five children…
Labor, Solidarity and Nursing
Soon, nurses saw the gulf widen between their values and those of an increasingly commodified healthcare system by Eva Rosenfeld for Belt Magazine “Why do nurses strike?” A nurse and state union leader named Nadine…
In Pittsburgh, local journalism is worth the fight
Having two major news sources in the city owned by notoriously anti-worker management can’t be good. For local journalism to be good, local journalism jobs need to be good. By Noelle Mateer, Belt Magazine Local…
Pa.’s criminal legal system increases overdose deaths and…
By Sean Fogler and Carla Sofronski , Pennsylvania Capital-Star In 2021, over 5,300 Pennsylvanians lost their lives to a preventable drug overdose. Pennsylvania policy makers and local government officials have led the charge in fueling…
On the Post-Gazette Picket Line
By Vince Guerrieri, Belt Magazine Of course, the irony here is that 30 years ago, the Post-Gazette found itself in the midst of a similar strike. And it’s the only reason the Post-Gazette is still…