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Urgency, anger and a local focus fuel black activism in Pittsburgh

“This is going to be a catalyst. We’re taking back our community.”

Pittsburgh’s glittering black culture: Baseball, boxing, business and jazz

“Smoketown” revisits Pittsburgh’s 30-year black renaissance of athletes, entrepreneurs, crusading journalists and famous jazz musicians

A return to Vietnam: Veterans occupy a former battleground 50 years after Tet

Late last summer, George Haught, who lives in Monaca, made up his mind to go back to Vietnam.

In Hanoi, Lady Borton has legacy of Vietnam service

In 1969, at 27, the young Quaker with curly cinnamon-colored hair arrived in Vietnam as a worker for the American Friends Service Committee.

Wives of combat veterans deal with their own anxiety

“I know he adores me, but he doesn’t let me in.”

The names: A church once packed with terrified civilians is a place of remembrance

Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood

As the iconic children’s show turns 50, here’s a look back at how it all began.

Modern-day debtors’ prisons? The system that sends Pennsylvanians to jail over unpaid court costs and fines

The ACLU is intervening across the country in cases where the poor are jailed for failure to make court payments.

Find a fish fry

A hard path to walk

Artificial limbs, a backwater of medicine, get a new look