Carlos. T. Carter, President and CEO of the Urban League of Greater Pittsburgh, comments on this month’s health focus on violence prevention, including how...
Black youth suffer unequally from community violence, which takes a toll on their mental health. When youth experience violence directly, they face even greater...
The Neighborhood Resilience Project (NRP) supports community transformations that turn trauma affected neighborhoods into healthy, healing, and vibrant places where residents can thrive.
Using a...
Mob rule is not conducive to representative democracy. Nosyrevy/iStock via Getty
by Rachel Locke, University of San Diego
Threats and harassment are pushing some politicians out of...
Sean “Diddy” Combs was arrested in New York City late Monday, and federal prosecutors confirmed that an indictment obtained against the music mogul will...
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by Silvia Molina Roldán, Universitat Rovira i Virgili; Garazi Lopez de Aguileta, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Itxaso Tellado, Universitat de Vic – Universitat Central...
Many restaurant workers see violence as a core aspect of a hardscrabble kitchen culture that has existed for generations.
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Managers who abuse their employees may be suffering from a perceptual bias. imtmphoto/iStock via Getty Images
Their own biases may be the problem
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Kimberly Durden, Contributing Writer
Embarrassment. Hopelessness. Distress. Helplessness. Defeat. Brokenness. Repeat. Latosha Barnes, founder, and director of Patricia’s Place, knows this cycle of shame and pain...
Elle Benet (Courtesy Photo) by Blair AdamsFor New Pittsburgh Courier (NNPA)--When Elle Benet looks back on her childhood, the memories are almost unbearable. For 18 years she lived in a world defined by verbal abuse and was part of a church that forced its members to live a life so austere that the outside world was held in disdain.
