Introduction: In These Uncertain Times, Pittsburgh

ABSTRACT

The issue includes an examination of the history of resistance to the Pittsburgh Bureau of Police, an analysis of mercy as a resistant social value among Black migrants leaving the South in August Wilson's Pittsburgh Play Cycle, and a community-engaged research article offered in support of a reconnection between young Black women and their cultural history in order to enhance maternal health. There is a moving poem that addresses systemic racism and the denial of justice, a living stories analysis of an online writing and performance course that included both police officers and returning citizens, and an interview with a man facing a life sentence in prison, where he offers his perspective on the problems our communities are facing. [...]the issue offers a follow-up to Norman Conti's piece "Stanton Heights," which was published in Kalfou vol. 5, no. 2 (2018), as well as a review of David A. Harris's A City Divided Race, Fear and the Law in Police Confrontations.