{"id":286159,"date":"2026-09-15T01:26:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T01:26:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/286159\/"},"modified":"2026-09-15T01:26:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T01:26:14","slug":"young-people-take-center-stage-at-eradicate-hate-global-summit-in-pittsburgh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/286159\/","title":{"rendered":"Young people take center stage at Eradicate Hate Global Summit in Pittsburgh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Eradicate Hate Global Summit, a major world conference on reducing and eliminating the influence of hate in society, is underway in Pittsburgh.<\/p>\n<p>Monday&#8217;s portion focused on young people.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have 42 schools from six counties across southwestern Pennsylvania,&#8221; Eradicate Hate President Brett Steele said.<\/p>\n<p>Six hundred students gathered to focus on how to prevent hate-fueled violence and make their schools safer. This part of the four-day event is called the student summit.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s hard to pinpoint hate,&#8221; Baldwin High School student Lily Baumgardner said.<\/p>\n<p>For Baumgardner, hate at her age comes from the herd mentality, especially among the young. Take part in the hate or be hated yourself.<\/p>\n<p>As Baumgardner puts it, hating is easy. Compassion takes courage.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Be an advocate and be brave and call out your friends or people you might not know and just talk to them, see where they&#8217;re coming from and provide perspective,&#8221; Baumgardner said.<\/p>\n<p>Each school represented will get $1,000 to fund student-led initiatives to combat hate in their school. Attendees also received the opportunity to network with groups focused on understanding and combating prejudice. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think the way to stop hate is through care and kindness,&#8221; St. Joseph High School student Julian Jiggetts said.<\/p>\n<p>Jiggetts believes the summit is a place to develop a skill set to discuss with his fellow students how to move past personal prejudice they may learn from their parents, peers or social media.<\/p>\n<p>He says the internet can be just as effective in bringing people together as it can in dividing them.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There are forums, there are areas, there are chat groups for people with different interests that live different lives that go through different experiences.<\/p>\n<p>Penn Hills student Michael Boyle echoed that sentiment.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Hate is going to be in your life. You just have to help others through it. If you&#8217;re dealing with hate, there&#8217;s someone out there for you,&#8221; Boyle said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Eradicate Hate Global Summit, a major world conference on reducing and eliminating the influence of hate in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":286160,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[73,75,74],"class_list":["post-286159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=286159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286159\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/286160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}