“This is going to be a catalyst. We’re taking back our community.”
“Smoketown” revisits Pittsburgh’s 30-year black renaissance.
After nearly six months on the job, Janis Burley Wilson lays out some of the plans “to catapult the center nationally and globally.”
Like other longtime business owners in East Liberty, Kevin “Bat” Andrews is hoping to survive dramatic changes in the neighborhood.
March 5 talk at Threadbare features Fawn Weaver, who’s helping tell the little-known story of Nathan “Nearest” Green in words and whiskeys.
Pittsburgh's African-Americans often leave or languish in region
See captivating images of black mid-century life in Pittsburgh, captured by famed photographer Charles "Teenie" Harris.
Take a journey through more than 200 years of the African-American experience in Southwestern Pennsylvania.
Designed in part to create jobs for black Pittsburghers, it also pioneered new techniques in emergency medicine.
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.
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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