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Historic Black church may return to Lower Hill after half century of displacement

“We troubled heaven, worked our faith, and God answered our prayers,” wrote Bethel AME Pastor Dale Snyder.

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Read more: How did Pittsburgh's oldest Black church form?

Four months after a frack out, a rural community is told it still shouldn’t drink the water

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URA sells off land for affordable housing, approves first-time homebuyer plan

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Essay: Who helped me to understand mental illness? The Who

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“So make your playlist. Dance if you’d like. Call a doctor. Insist on good care. Sometimes you might need medication. It’s OK,” writes one Pittsburgher.

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What are your priorities?

This fall, yet-unnamed contenders will vie for county executive, the most powerful political post in Western Pennsylvania. What should their platforms address? We want your input, for use in a coming story. Email your top 3 county government priorities, and any other thoughts, to Reporter Charlie Wolfson at [email protected].

These teens are fighting to change the rhetoric and reality around youth violence in the Pittsburgh area

From the Source podcast | S4, Ep. 1

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"Making change": Youth violence and its effects in Pittsburgh

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Essay: One love, one fight for tomorrow

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“When violence happens, it changes lives and when lives change, the environment changes, and when the environment changes, the community changes, and when your community and the world change, you must adapt and change with it,” writes Deahmi Mobley, a teen essayist.

‘How I can make a change’: Youth programs are helping the next generation halt the cycle of gun violence

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When a Jeep smashed me and my bicycle, it flattened my life’s mission – and then came the traffic ticket

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"Soon, I started re-thinking and re-imagining street design and cities and dreaming how much more efficient and fun and affordable life could be if everyone had the option to safely choose bicycles," the essayist writes. 
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