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storyThe Week Pittsburgh’s Grief Became FireAfter Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in April 1968, grief, anger, unrest and a later peace march transformed Pittsburgh’s Hill District in different ways across the same week.History1968Martin Luther King Jr
storyThe Mall That Pittsburgh Built to Save East Liberty—and Nearly Killed ItEast Liberty’s Penn Circle and pedestrian-mall experiment tried to compete with suburban shopping but disrupted the street network and commercial ecosystem it was meant to save.HistoryEast LibertyPenn Circle
storyPittsburgh Cleaned Up City Hall—Then Power Learned the New RulesIn 1911 Pittsburgh replaced its sprawling ward-based councils with nine at-large seats; decades later, representation problems forced the city to reform the reform.Historycity council1911 reform
storyThe Newspaper That Asked America Which Democracy It Was Fighting ForHow one young Black defense worker wrote to the Pittsburgh Courier and helped turn World War II into two battles at onceHistoryPittsburgh CourierDouble V