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Kathryn Nesbitt talking to soccer player on the field

Meet the Pitt-trained chemist shattering global glass ceilings as a soccer referee

Last year, Kathryn Nesbitt became the first woman to referee a men's World Cup match.

  • Global
  • Alumni
  • Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Alex Randall speaking into microphone in broadcasting studio

This Pitt junior made hockey history

Alex Randall is the first Black broadcaster to call a Canadian Hockey League game.

  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
  • Students
  • Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
Robin Brooks standing outside wearing light purple jacket

ICYMI: A conversation on class, gender and fiction

Hear from Africana Studies’ Robin Brooks on her new book, “Class Interruptions.”

  • Arts and Humanities
  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
  • Faculty
Illustration of K. Leroy Irvis sitting in chair with blue background

Pitt's Black History Month Program is named after the first Black speaker of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives

Alumnus K. Leroy Irvis was instrumental in reshaping education in the commonwealth.

  • Community Impact
  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
  • Our City/Our Campus
  • School of Law
Haliyat Oshodi wearing blue and gold sweater posing in front of the Cathedral of Learning

See the new digital archive that puts Black history front and center

The Blue, Gold and Black Archive, debuting Feb. 21, will provide a permanent home for the stories and photos of Pitt’s Black community. Register now.

  • University News
  • Community Impact
  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Gabby Yearwood wearing grey suit with patterned blue bowtie

This Pitt anthropologist studies race, class and sports. Here’s what he thinks about the 2022 Olympics.

Gabby M.H. Yearwood turned his experience as the only Black kid on the ice rink into a career of thinking critically about the cultural importance of sports.

  • Global
  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
  • Faculty
  • Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
Elayne Arrington standing with her arms folded in front of chalkboard

Meet one of Pitt's ‘hidden figures’

After becoming the first Black woman to graduate from the Swanson School of Engineering, Elayne Arrington made aerospace history, too.

  • Technology & Science
  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
  • Alumni
  • Swanson School of Engineering
UPMC doctor speaking to student at a desk

A new Pitt-UPMC residency program is bringing better health care to patients in rural Pennsylvania

Second- and third-year residents will work in Tioga and Potter counties as part of the only such program in north-central Pennsylvania.

  • Health and Wellness
  • Community Impact
  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
  • School of Medicine
Illustration of woman with flowers covering her mouth

There's more to health inequities than income

Modern medicine promises bountiful health, so why have Black Americans been left behind? The risk factor is not race, but racism and its legacy.

  • Health and Wellness
  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
  • School of Medicine
Tim Stevens standing outside wearing black coat during winter

Advice for activists from a former Pittsburgh NAACP president and Pitt alumnus

Tim Stevens has been advocating for Black people’s civil rights for 50 years.

  • Community Impact
  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
  • Our City/Our Campus
Two people smiling and celebrating Juneteenth

The University of Pittsburgh adds Juneteenth as an observed holiday

Beginning this academic year, all campuses will close in observation of Juneteenth, often referred to as Black Independence Day.

  • University News
  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Limited registration is open for the Racial Equity Consciousness Institute’s spring cohort

The series creates a framework for fostering anti-racist practices and creating racial equity.

  • University News
  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Art exhibition with drawings of people's faces on brown paper bags

See the University Art Gallery’s longest-running Black women’s exhibit

Quilts, photos, paintings and other artworks from 22 artists form the Women of Visions exhibit, which is on display through Feb. 25.

  • Arts and Humanities
  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
  • Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
Valerie Kinloch holding up her hand and smiling with a young girl

New Pitt School of Education program supports future Black educators

The initiative seeks to add 35 Black teachers to the Pittsburgh Public School District over seven years.

  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
  • School of Education
  • Community Impact
  • Teaching & Learning
De’Jovia Davis wearing blue and gold uniform

Pitt’s first Black female assistant drum major marches with passion and persistence

De’Jovia Davis may have been raised in the South, but she discovered her home at Pitt Band.

  • Arts and Humanities
  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
  • Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
People gathered in the Cathedral of Learning wearing black shirts

Save the date for these Black History Month programs at Pitt

See the Blue, Gold and Black Experience Gallery, contribute to a new digital archive and attend the Black Excellence Bash.

  • University News
  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Haben Girma wearing red shirt in front of blue background

Pitt’s Center on Race and Social Problems marks 20 years with lecture on disability justice

Hear from human rights lawyer and White House Champion of Change Haben Girma Feb. 2 at 4:45 p.m.

  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Multiple red lanterns lit up in the dark to celebrate the Lunar New Year.

Celebrate the Lunar New Year with Pitt student groups

Here are three ways to ring in the Year of the Tiger, beginning Feb. 1.

  • University News
  • Global
  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Cathedral of Learning aerial shot with view of city in the background

School of Education summer academy to complement Pittsburgh Promise’s Advancing Educators of Color scholarship

The scholarship aims to add 35 Black educators to the Pittsburgh Public School system in the next seven years.

  • Community Impact
  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
  • School of Education
Paintings of Malcolm X and others on display for Black History Month

How to find Pitt’s Black History Month events

This year's theme is the Blue, Gold and Black Experience.

  • University News
  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
  • Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences