By Jody DiPerna Pittsburgh Current Senior Contributor jody@pittsburghcurrent.com Brian Broome’s literary voice is the kind he and I were both denied growing up. Our school curriculums didn’t include any Black…
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By Jody DiPerna Pittsburgh Current Senior Contributor jody@pittsburghcurrent.com A Bridgeville man in jail awaiting trial for his part in the January insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, was unable to appear…
By Jody Diperna Pittsburgh Current Senior Contributor jody@pittsburghcurrent.com Like the history of America itself, Alaina Roberts’ family history is knotty, astonishing and, to a large degree, hidden. With her first…
By Jody DiPerna Pittsburgh Current Senior Contributor jody@pittsburghcurrent.com Gregg Behr and Ryan Rydzewski have written a new book about the art of the learning sciences and what we can still…
By Jody DiPerna Pittsburgh Current Senior Contributor jody@pittsburghcurrent.com More than a full year into the new reality of pandemic living, Pittsburgh Arts & Lectures has upped their game in order…
By Jody DiPerna Pittsburgh Current senior Contributor jody@pittsburghcurrent.com For most hearing people, Alexander Graham Bell is the guy who invented the telephone. But in Deaf culture, he is the man…
Jody DiPerna Pittsburgh Current Senior Contributor jody@pittsburghcurrent.com Ron Donoughe has devoted much of his career to chronicling Western Pennsylvania with a canvas and brush. A plein air painter, Donoughe spent…
Jody DiPerna Pittsburgh Current Senior Contributor jody@pittsburghcurrent.com Kenneth Grayson, a fifty-one year old white man from Bridgeville, went to DC “to fight, not hang around,” according to messages obtained by…
By Jody DiPerna Pittsburgh Current Senior Contributor jody@pittsburghcurrent.com A preliminary hearing was held yesterday afternoon by videoconference in the case of USA v. George Tanios, filed in Federal Court stemming…
By Jody DiPerna Pittsburgh Current Senior Contributor jody@pittsburghcurrent.com As most people across the state prepared to welcome or at least live with a new presidential administration, some Pennsylvanians, from Philadelphia…