“The New Pittsburgh Courier has learned that Lynne Hayes-Freeland, award-winning reporter and host of The Lynne Hayes-Freeland Show on KDKA-TV, will host a four-hour weekday show (10 a.m. to 2 p.m.) on KDKA Radio (1020 am), beginning Jan. 3, 2019. Hayes-Freeland becomes the first African American to host a full-time, weekday show in the nearly 100-year history of KDKA Radio.”
Read MoreThe decision for the Port Authority of Allegheny County to Adopt "Ban the Box" followed the Thursday, November 1, 2018 meeting with Port Authority Executive Director Katharine Eagan Kelleman.
Read MoreJosh Sayles and five other members of the Community Relations Council attended a press conference Monday at Freedom Unlimited in the Hill District organized by nine community groups including the Black Political Empowerment Project, NAACP Pittsburgh, and the Urban League of Greater Pittsburgh.
Read MoreUNITY SERVICE TO SUPPORT THE VICTIMS, FRIENDS AND FAMILY MEMBERS of those killed in the October 27th tragedy.
Read MoreOn Tuesday, October 23, 2018 Mayor Bill Peduto awarded Alma Fox the “Key to the City”.
Read MoreLocal activists expressed outrage and demanded racial justice in a press conference Thursday morning about the police killing of 17-year-old Antwon Rose in East Pittsburgh.
Read MoreThe simple sanctuary in a quiet North Hills neighborhood is miles from the city streets that have been scenes of violence and protest — and thousands of miles from border scenes of family separation.
Read MoreTurahn Jenkins stood at the corner of Grant Street and Forbes Avenue and watched as hundreds protesting the fatal shooting of Antwon Rose II gathered outside the Allegheny County Courthouse, where he has spent most of his 13-year career as an attorney.
Read MoreCommunity members in East Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, continue to protest the police shooting this week of an unarmed black teen whose fatal encounter with an officer Tuesday was captured on video by a bystander’s cell phone.
Read MoreThey swore an oath to protect us. Every decision could mean life or death. And their job isn’t getting any easier.
Read MoreA successful day at the Pittsburgh Theological Seminary. We are in a State of Emergency. Countless women of color have been assaulted, murdered, disappeared and shamed. Community members from all around Pittsburgh came to discuss action and the future of Women and girls. Check out more photos at coalitionagainstviolence.net
Read MoreA single mother of two young girls had just left work Thursday afternoon when she was shot and killed in what investigators believe was a robbery planned by one of her co-workers.
Read MorePennsylvania's Supreme Court has redrawn the map of the state's congressional districts, overturning a Republican gerrymander that's been used in the past three congressional elections.
Read MoreWith the Pittsburgh region facing a building boom of hospitals, offices, apartment complexes and a $6 billion chemical plant, the construction industry got exactly what it wanted on Saturday.
Read MoreTim Stevens, Chairman and CEO of the Black Political Empowerment Project, has called for an “immediate assessment of whatever offer has been made to Leon Ford, and that a new offer be made that can indeed bring this matter to a positive conclusion.”
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