Black History Month

Urgency, anger and a local focus fuel black activism in Pittsburgh

“This is going to be a catalyst. We’re taking back our community.”

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Pittsburgh's glittering black culture: Baseball, boxing, business and jazz

“Smoketown” revisits Pittsburgh’s 30-year black renaissance.

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“Take the ‘A’ Train” put a writer on track to discover Pittsburgh’s rich jazz culture and fascinating rhythms.

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August Wilson Center leader charts progress made and what's to come

After nearly six months on the job, Janis Burley Wilson lays out some of the plans “to catapult the center nationally and globally.”

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Hill District restaurant owner rolls out welcome mat to the rich, famous and locals

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South Side soul: Restaurant crosses rivers, engages new audience

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Longtime businesses ride ups and downs of East Liberty gentrification

Like other longtime business owners in East Liberty, Kevin “Bat” Andrews is hoping to survive dramatic changes in the neighborhood.

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Pittsburgh Public Schools spotlights alumni who are making a mark in Pittsburgh's arts and culture

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Learn about the slave who taught Jack Daniel how to make whiskey

March 5 talk at Threadbare features Fawn Weaver, who’s helping tell the little-known story of Nathan “Nearest” Green in words and whiskeys.

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“Lost Tapes of Malcolm X” shows rare footage of the charismatic Muslim minister

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The Black Experience

Pittsburgh's African-Americans often leave or languish in region

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Two shots

See captivating images of black mid-century life in Pittsburgh, captured by famed photographer Charles "Teenie" Harris.

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Pittsburgh's African-American Historic Sites

Take a journey through more than 200 years of the African-American experience in Southwestern Pennsylvania.

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Freedom House Ambulance: 'We were the best'

Designed in part to create jobs for black Pittsburghers, it also pioneered new techniques in emergency medicine.

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Let's tip our caps to Pullman porters

As Harold Hayes grew up in the hillside neighborhood of Beltzhoover, he looked up to his grandfather, Thomas Burrell, who was a deacon at South Hills Baptist Church and a Pullman porter on the Pennsylvania Railroad.

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Jazz legend Dakota Staton

Dakota Staton’s strong, sultry, soulful voice will transport you back to the 1950s, an era when people flocked to nightclubs to hear live music, especially jazz or rhythm and blues.

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