A few years ago, The Pitt News published a story on the stunningly low number of Black students at Pitt. According to University data, Black students represented just 5.26% of the undergraduate student body in 2019, a statistic Black student leaders called “embarrassing.”
The same leaders argued that the culture within the University needed to change to attract, and retain, more Black students. Internally, at The Pitt News, we also acknowledged that we needed to adapt to improve as a student news organization and to better reflect the needs of the diverse Pitt community, and Pittsburgh generally.
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