Pittsburgh is an American Apartheid city. Here’s the reality.

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(2) As sociologists Nancy Denton and Doug Massey wrote in their seminal book, American Apartheid, “Although America’s apartheid may not be rooted in the legal strictures of its South African relative, it is no less effective in perpetuating racial inequality.”

(3) Pittsburgh, the city I love, remains one of the most racially segregated cities by neighborhood in America.

(4) Pittsburgh has one of the highest rates of occupational segregation between Whites and Blacks.

(5) Fetal deaths are 2 times more likely among Black women than White women.