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Wilkinsburg Youth Reporters Attend “Community Conversations”

By Kevin Blackwell - 10th Grade, Wilkinsburg High School and David Green - 10th Grade, Wilkinsburg High School
On Thursday, June 25, the Wilkinsburg community was brought together by Borough Councilwoman Marita Garrett at Eastridge Library for "Community Conversations." The Eastridge Library was once a church, but now it is used for community events. Read more [...]

aside 19 Aug

GirlGov Participants Learn and Earn Political Knowledge

By Serena Zets - 10th Grade, Pittsburgh CAPA
GirlGov graduate Miciah Foster said, "I have 50 sisters. The morning before last they were all gathered in a hotel room listening as I spoke about the injustice of black women. When I finished, every one of my sisters clapped in agreement, outrage, support Read more [...]

aside 24 Oct

Fearless: Women Empowerment in the Middle East

By Evan Sweeney, Senior, Northgate High School Afghanistan, the twenty-first century: eighty-seven percent of women are illiterate. Only thirty-percent of girls have access to education. One in every three Afghan women experience some kind of physical, sexual, or psychological abuse. (Integrated Regional Information Networks, 2007). These statistics are only the beginning of a larger problem plaguing much of the Middle East: Afghanistan is just one of several Middle Eastern countries in which Read more [...]

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Wilkinsburg Youth Reporters Attend “Community Conversations”

GirlGov Participants Learn and Earn Political Knowledge

Fearless: Women Empowerment in the Middle East

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