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Family decries lack of action in son’s June shooting death VOL. 107, NO. 39
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by Christian Morrow Courier Staff Writer
On June 3, Richard West-Gray was riding on Route 65 out of Pittsburgh on the way to his girlfriend’s apartment in McKees Rocks in her cousin Carlton Watson’s car. They did not even get to the McKees Rocks Bridge. Just before 5 a.m., someone shot them both multiple times from the passenger side of the car. By the time police arrived, Watson, 24, and Gray, 26, had died from their injuries. In the nearly four months that have passed since the killing, Gray’s mother Louise Gray and his Great Aunt Davine Bundridge said they haven’t learned anything more from po-
lice and are worried that the investigation is being put on the back burner as new homicide cases take precedent. “Richard was murdered June 3 and we haven’t heard a thing since,” said Bundridge. “Louise has been calling them weekly. We don’t know if it’s ongoing or if nothing is going on. It looks to me like (the police) aren’t doing a damned thing.” “Through the end of August, 58 Black lives have been taken in Pittsburgh,” she added. “Well, one of those 58 was Richard. He’s not just a statistic.” Gray said her son was not part of the thug life, he had a job at Target and was continuing to try to launch a rap career under the
n a m e ‘Shooter Rich,” unlike his fraternal twin brother Rufus, who is serving time in Western RICHARD WEST-GRAY Penitentiary. “He was a happy kid, enjoyed life—he wasn’t no bad dude. He was so thin anyone could have whipped his ass,” she said “He was my oldest child, my first born. He had three SEE FAMILY A4
Women’s Walk for Peace draws hundreds by Christian Morrow Courier Staff Writer
With drummers drumming, dancers dancing, cheerleaders stepping and signs waving, residents from across the city took to the streets of the North Side for the 9th Annual Women’s Walk for Peace. Ronell Guy, whose Northside Coalition for Fair Housing has sponsored the walk for all of its nine years, welcomed everyone and reminded them why they were there. “We’re here to celebrate the lives of all those we lost in the past year to street and domestic violence,” she said. “We are marching against all forms of violence; domestic violence, Black-onBlack-violence, police vio- FORWARD—Residents from across the city join in the Northside Coalition for Fair Housing 9th Annual Women’s Walk lence—we just want peace. for Peace on the North Side to call for action against all forms of violence. (Photo by J.L. Martello) And we’re going to start Stubbs, the crowd of more than 300 started their help our communities stop the violence. right here where we stand on the Various speakers, including Brandi Fisher of nearly two-mile trek from the Pittsburgh Project north side and spread it throughthe Alliance for Police Accountability, noted that on North Charles Street to West Park. out the city of Pittsburgh.” Thirteen-year-old Ruby Honaker from the And following a prayer from new SEE WALK A4 North Side said she is marching because it can evangelistic minister Dorothy
by Christian Morrow Two weeks ago the National Fraternal Order of Police announced its endorsement of Donald Trump for president. While national FOP President Chuck Canterbury acknowledged this is “an unusual election,” he said the endorsement came down to a choice between a candidate who engaged the union and one who did not.
“We have a candidate who declined to seek an endorsement and a candidate without any record as an elected official,” Canterbury wrote in a Sept. 16 press release. “Mr. Trump, however, has seriously looked at the issues facing law enforcement today. He understands and supports our priorities and our members believe he will make America safe again.” An endorsement vote, Canterbury wrote, requires at least a two-thirds majority of
Actor in ‘Do The Right Thing’ NEW YORK (AP)—Bill Nunn, a veteran character actor whose credits ranged from the “Spider-Man” movie franchise to such Spike Lee films as “Do the Right Thing” and “He Got Game,” has died. His wife, Donna, said Nunn died Saturday at his home in Pittsburgh. He was 63 and had been battling cancer. A longtime Pittsburgh resident and graduate of Morehouse College, Lee’s alma mater, Nunn b r o k e through in movies in the late 1980s, first in Lee’s BILL NUNN III “ S ch o o l Daze,” then in the Oscar-nominated “Do the Right Thing,” as the ill-fated Radio Raheem, who dies when choked by police during a street brawl in Brooklyn. “Radio Raheem is now resting in power,” Lee wrote on Instagram, SEE NUNN A5
Residents reinforce need for more affordable housing by Christian Morrow Courier Staff Writer
the FOP national board, which consists of one trustee from every state lodge—fifty people. The union boasts more than 330,000 members. Both the Pittsburgh and Philadelphia FOP lodge votes followed suit endorsing Trump. But while Pittsburgh FOP President Robert Swartzwelder said he has heard no pushback from members who
One day after a rally by advocates filled downtown streets marching for affordable housing, those same advocates and others filled city council chambers for a pubic hearing on creating and funding an affordable housing “Opportunity Fund.” Council president Bruce Kraus promised a vote on the matter before year’s end after listening to more than 50 city residents speak in favor of creating the fund. Betty Pickett, retired executive director of the National Conference for Community and Justice, said she doesn’t want to see a fourth re-gentrification of the Hill District. “I’ve lived there for 38 years it’s a neighborhood not revolving door. The fight to get affordable housing on the parking lot sites in the lower hill has been a hand wringer.
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Trump’s inner bully comes out swinging, goes out flailing in debate by Keith A. Owens For New Pittsburgh Courier
FIRST DEBATE—Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton smiles as Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump speaks during the presidential debate at Hofstra University in Hempstead, N.Y., Monday, Sept. 26. (Rick T. Wilking/Pool via AP)
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Donald Trump stayed calm and measured for about the first 10 minutes of the debate before he could no longer contain his inner bully. Hillary Clinton countered with reasonable facts and figures, sometimes to her benefit and sometimes not quite so much as she worked to remain decent in the face of an adversary who is anything but. However, as the debate rolled on, Hillary Clinton’s steady command of the facts and of
the issues won the night as Trump folded into Rumpelstiltskin mode and devolved into full meltdown. An early sign of the crack in Trump’s facade began when Clinton hit her adversary hard on his questionable business record, bringing up his numerous bankruptcies, and reminding viewers of the many times when he stiffed his own workers hired to work on his own projects. She even made it personal, talking about Trump’s life of privilege and reflecting on her father, a small business
owner, who she said she was glad had never been employed by a Trump project where the workers were not paid. But as the night wore on, Trump’s lack of preparedness, combined with his thin skin, began to make for an increasingly uncomfortable night for the Republican contender. When it got to the point where Trump incredulously asserted that he had performed a great service for the nation, and even for President Obama, SEE TRUMP A5
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PAGEANT WINNER—Tryphena Natukunda, left, a Ugandan living with HIV/Aids the winner of the third annual Uganda Network of Young People Living with HIV beauty pageant at Golf Course Hotel Kampala, Uganda, Saturday Sept. 24. (AP Photo/Stephen Wandera)
AIDS pageant in Uganda seeks to stem stigma, discrimination by Rodney Muhumuza Associated Press Writer
KAMPALA, Uganda (AP)—When she was younger, Tryphena Natukunda’s mother discouraged her from swallowing her antiretroviral medicines among strangers or even distant relatives. Because the girl had AIDS, which can fuel stigmatization and invite harsh judgment, the mother wanted her daughter’s condition kept a secret within the family. Yet as she grew older, Natukunda, now 18 and the latest winner of a beauty pageant for young Ugandan women with the virus that causes AIDS, yearned to live openly, even if it meant people saying harsh things behind her back. Natukunda was crowned Miss Young Positive during a boisterous affair at a Kampala hotel early Sunday, besting nine other contestants in an annual competition organized to enlighten people about the dangers of discriminating against people with AIDS. A similar competition is held for young men. “If my mother was not with me, I couldn’t go any place where they didn’t know my status,” Natukunda recalled late Saturday, as she had her makeup done backstage before the show. “What we used to fear was people seeing me taking my drugs and then asking, ‘What are those drugs for?”’ It’s a question that haunts other AIDS patients in this East African country, where experts warn that discrimination remains an obstacle to preventing new HIV infections. Many Ugandans still regard an HIV diagnosis as proof of irresponsible sexual behavior and a source of shame. Mothers suffering from AIDS have been known to breastfeed their infants in public places, exposing their children to HIV because they don’t want a bottle and formula to make others suspect they are infected.
Organizers of the HIV-themed beauty pageant, which launched in 2014, say one way of curbing the irrational fear of AIDS that fuels discrimination is for more people living with HIV to open up about their status rather than conceal it. “In Uganda, many young people die not because they do not take their medicine. It’s just because the stigma and discrimination around them hindered them from taking their medicine well,” Lovinka Nakayiza of the Uganda Network of Young people Living with HIV & AIDS, the civic group which put on the pageant, said. “Our family members discriminate against us because they think HIV moves on our faces when we touch their cups, when we talk to them.” Whoever wins the pageant is expected to become a roving ambassador in the fight against AIDS, Nakayiza said. Instead of physical attributes or special talents, contestants were judged on their knowledge of HIV, including basic questions such as the term for which HIV serves as an acronym. The Ugandan government has been campaigning to persuade more people to get tested for HIV, since experts believe those who know their status are more likely to abstain from risky sexual behavior. The HIV prevalence rate in Uganda stood at 7.1 percent in 2015 among adults aged 15 to 49, according to the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS. Nakayiza said the beauty pageant was inspired by a desire to do something new in the AIDS prevention movement, which she said was dominated by “too many workshops” that can bore instead of motivate young people. Robinah Babirye, a 23-year-old who won the Miss Young Positive title in 2015, has spent the last year speaking at schools and other public places where young people living with HIV need encouragement. Babirye, who went through “rough” times of her own when long-time friends shunned her, said connecting with others in the same situation has been good for her and for them. “Most of the young people that I have met have seen me as an inspiration, have seen me as an example, and that I am proud of,” she said. “Through talking and relating with young people living with HIV, I have empowered young people and made them positive about life.”
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Week of Sept. 28-Oct. 4 September 28 1785—Abolitionist and writer David Walker is born. Walker is best known for his powerful anti-slavery pamphlet “David Walker’s Appeal.” The “Appeal” was published on this same day in 1829. 1833—Reverend Lemuel Haynes dies at 88. He was one of the leading Black veterans of America’s war for independence from England. 1868—The Opelousas Massacre occurs. Racist Whites launch a terror campaign in St. Landry Parrish, La., resulting in the deaths of at least 200 Blacks. 1895—The National Baptist Convention is founded. 1991—Jazz Trumpeter Miles Davis dies in Santa Monica, Calif., of a stroke. He was 65. September 29 LEMUEL HAYNES 1784—First African-American Masonic lodge is established by Prince Hall. Hall headed lodge number 459 and was referred to as the “Worshipful Master.” He would also become a leading figure in the struggle for African-Americans rights during this early period in U.S. history. 1940—The first U.S. merchant ship commanded by a Black captain—Hugh Mulzac—is launched in Wilmington, Del. The ship is named the “Booker T. Washington.” 1962—President John F. Kennedy finally sends federal MILES DAVIS troops to force the integration of the University of Mississippi. 1975—The nation’s first Black-owned television station—WGPR—begins broadcasting in Detroit. 1979—William Arthur Lewis, economics professor at Princeton University, becomes the first Black to receive a Nobel Prize in Economics. 2001—Mabel Fairbanks dies at 85. She was the first Black woman to be inducted into the Figure Skating Hall of Fame. She coached Olympic greats Tai Babilonia and Randy Gardner. October 1 1841—Fannie M. Richards is born. She becomes one of the nation’s early civil rights advocates as well as a prominent educator. 1868—John Mercer Langston (1829-1897) organizes the nation’s first Black law school at Howard University in Washington, D.C. WILLIAM ARTHUR LEWIS Largely forgotten today, Langston was a major Black political figure during his day. He was one of the nation’s first African-American lawyers, elected political officials and he influenced Black education throughout the country. The town of Langston, Okla., is named in his honor. 1872—Morgan State College is founded in Maryland. 1937—The NAACP awards the prestigious Spingarn Medal to Walter White for his work against lynching. The light complexioned White had “passed for White” to gather evidence against terrorist organizations such as the Ku Klux Klan. 1960—Africa’s most populous JOHN MERCER LANGSTON nation-Nigeria-declares its independence from colonial rule. 1966—The militant Black Panther Party is founded in Oakland, Calif., by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale. October 2 1800—Nat Turner is born on this day in South Hampton, Va. The spiritually inspired Turner would organize and carry out one of the deadliest slave revolts in American history. His rebellion led to the deaths of 57 Whites including men, women and children. NAT TURNER 1937—Famed attorney Johnny Cochran is born on this day in Shreveport, La. He was the lead-attorney in the 1995 murder trial which resulted in the not guilty verdict for football legend O.J. Simpson. In addition to Simpson, Cochran was involved in several other high profile cases. He died on March 29, 2005 at the age of 67. 1967—Thurgood Marshall is sworn in as the first Black justice on the United States Supreme Court. President Lyndon Johnson had nominated him in part because of his distinguished career in the NAACP fighting to desegregate American institutions. Marshall had been the lead attorney in the historic Brown v. Board of Education case which led to the desegregation of the nation’s schools. 1986—The U.S. Senate imposes economic sanctions on the then White minority government in JOHNNY COCHRAN South Africa. The sanctions were imposed only after the Senate overrode a veto of the measure by President Ronald Reagan. Reagan had angered Blacks and progressive Whites by favoring a policy he referred to as “constructive engagement” with the racist South African regime. Black majority rule was not achieved in South Africa until 1994. October 3 1856—Journalist and fiery advocate for Black rights T. Thomas Fortune is born in Marianna, Jackson County, Fla. He was an orator, journalist and militant civil rights advocate. He attended school at Howard University in Washington, D.C., but later moved to New York City where he founded the New York Age newspaper. Fortune died in Philadelphia at the age of 71 in 1928. 1935—The then-independent East African nation of Ethiopia is invaded by fascist Italy in an attempt to join other European nations which had used military force to establish colonies in Africa and exploit its economic T. THOMAS FORTUNE resources. Blacks throughout the world rallied to Ethiopia’s defense, in part, because the nation was viewed by many as the place on Earth where human life began. The U.S. effort was led by prominent Harlem, N.Y., minister Adam Clayton Powell Sr. 1949—One of the first Black-owned radio stations in America begins broadcasting in Atlanta, Ga. The principal organizing force behind WERD was businessman J.B. Blayton. 1995—Former professional football great O.J. Simpson is found not guilty of the murders of his ex-wife Nicole and her friend Ronald Goldman. The trial had been a national ADAM CLAYTON POWELL sensation. The verdict angered a majority of Whites. Polls showed that better than 80 percent of Whites surveyed felt Simpson got away with murder. October 4 1864—What was to become the nation’s first Black daily newspaper began publishing on this day in New Orleans, La. Amazingly, the New Orleans Tribune began distribution while slavery still existed. It was founded by Dr. Louis C. Reudanez. It began O.J. SIMPSON as a tri-weekly but soon became a daily published in both French and English. 1969—Howard Lee and Charles Evers became the first Black mayors of Chapel Hill, N.C., and Fayette, Miss., respectively. Evers was the brother of civil rights legend Medgar Evers who was murdered by Ku Klux Klan member Byron De La Beckwith on June 12, 1963. 1988—The Martin Luther King Jr. federal building is dedicated in Atlanta, Ga. It thus became the first federal building to CHARLES EVERS bear the name of the slain civil rights leader.
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TAKING A KNEE—Demonstrators take a knee during the national anthem outside Bank of America POLICE VIDEO—This image made from video provided by the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police DepartStadium before an NFL football game between the Charlotte Panthers and the Minnesota Vikings Sep- ment shows Keith Scott on the ground as police approach him in Charlotte, N.C., on Sept. 20. (Assotember 25, in Charlotte, North Carolina. (Sean Rayford / Getty Images) ciated Press Photo)
Charlotte police release video of shooting but doubts remain by Meg Kinnard, Emory P. Dalesio and Tom Foreman, Jr. Associated Press Writers
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) —Nightly protests have shaken the city of Charlotte since the shooting death of a Black man by police last week, but Sunday’s NFL game between
“What we know and what you should know about him is that he was an American citizen who deserved better.” RAY DOTCH, Keith Scott’s brother-in-law
the Carolina Panthers and the Minnesota Vikings managed to open without interruption. A group of around 100 demonstrators gathered across the street from Bank of America Stadium to keep up the pressure in the aftermath of the death of Keith Lamont Scott. The 43-year-old man was shot and killed Tuesday after a confrontation with Charlotte police. Five nights of protests followed, two of them violent. On Sunday, protesters led by a man with a bullhorn across the street from
Bank of America Stadium were surrounded by at least two dozen police officers on bicycles. Their message competed with the noise of fans streaming toward the stadium and an impromptu jazz band playing tunes less than a block away. When the national anthem was played, the protesters all dropped to one knee as many NFL players have been doing for weeks to call attention to issues, including police shootings. Inside the stadium, Carolina safety Marcus Ball raised his fist during the anthem. Video footage released Saturday by police of the incident hasn’t settled questions about whether Scott threatened authorities with a gun before he was felled by a Black officer. Police Chief Kerr Putney said Saturday that Scott was “absolutely in possession of a handgun,” adding that, while officers didn’t break the law, the State Bureau of Investigation continues to pursue the case. While police say Scott had a gun, residents contend he was unarmed. It’s not apparent in the video if he’s holding anything shortly before he was shot. The dramatic video released by Charlotte police shows officers with guns drawn surrounding the man just before the shooting.
FUNERAL PROGRAM—A man holds a copy of the program for the funeral of Terence Crutcher during services to honor him in Tulsa, Okla., Saturday, Sept. 24. Crutcher was fatally shot Sept. 16 by Officer Betty Jo Shelby. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)
Funeral held for unarmed man shot by Tulsa officer
TULSA, Okla. (AP)— Hundreds of mourners packed a church for a funeral honoring an unarmed Black man who was fatally shot by a White Tulsa, Oklahoma, police officer. Terence Crutcher was remembered Saturday evening at Antioch Baptist Church. The 40-year-old Crutcher was fatally shot Sept. 16 by Officer Betty Jo Shelby. Shelby has been charged with first degree manslaughter and turned herself in Friday. She was released after posting bond. Crutcher’s fatal shooting was captured on video taken from a police helicopter and a dashboard camera. The killing prompted several rallies and protests throughout the city in the past week, all of them peaceful. One of the speakers at the funeral was Crutcher family attorney Damario Solomon-Simmons. He told that crowd that “it could
have been me,” before reciting the names of Black residents who died after police encounters nationwide in recent years. “Just like Terence, I’m 40; just like Terence, I’m bald; just like Terence, some think I’m a bad dude,” Simmons said. Tulsa Mayor Dewey Bartlett also spoke at the service. “Too many young people have died in this community, way too many,” the mayor told attendees. “We must stand up and say no more.” Others who attended Saturday said they hoped the service could help draw attention to future incidents involving police officers and Black men. Tulsa resident Wanda Armstrong, 69, said she hopes Crutcher’s killing will bring better scrutiny after similar incidents across the country. “I say that this was the shot that was heard around the world,” Armstrong said.
videos were released, a fifth day of protests against Scott’s fatal shooting was largely peaceful. Police blocked off downtown streets late into the night as they had throughout the day, allowing demonstrators to take over roadways without confrontations with vehicles. Away from the marching, others are speaking out about the videos. Reda Burch, one of the dozens of people who stopped by a makeshift memorial near the site where Scott died, said she has watched the police videos and doesn’t think Scott was threatening officers or that the shooting was justified. “His hands never left his side,” Burch said Sunday afternoon. “So no, I don’t see a reason to kill him. I mean, if they needed to wound him in the leg, that would be been acceptable MY LIFE MATTERS—A protester raises her fist as she marches in the streets of Charlotte, N.C., Friday, Sept. 23, over Tuesday’s fatal to get him down. ...Why weren’t the Tasers depolice shooting of Keith Lamont Scott. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton) ployed?” Relatives and their atFour shots are heard in Police also released photorney have also said their quick succession, and he tos on Saturday of what questions aren’t answered crumples to the ground they said was a loaded by the release of partial mortally wounded. handgun found at the police video footage. Police also released phoscene, adding it bore Scott’s “There is no definitive tos on Saturday of what DNA and fingerprints. evidence in this video as to they said was a loaded They also said Scott had whether or not there is an handgun found at the marijuana. object in his hand, and if scene, adding it bore Scott’s there is, what that object In the police vehicle DNA and fingerprints. dashboard camera video is,” Justin Bamberg, an They also said Scott had released Saturday night, attorney for Scott’s family, marijuana. Scott could be seen slowly said Saturday. “But what After the dashboard cam- we do know is that the backing away from his SUV with his hands down. era and police body-cam moment Mr. Scott is shot,
it appears as though he’s not aggressively moving toward law enforcement; he’s actually doing the opposite. He’s passively stepping back.” Ray Dotch, Scott’s brother-in-law, said some reporters had been looking into Scott’s background but added that background shouldn’t matter. “What we know and what you should know about him is that he was an American citizen who deserved better,” he said. Charlotte has been on edge ever since Scott’s death. The demonstrations reached a violent crescendo Wednesday before the National Guard was called in a day later to maintain order. Forty-four people were arrested after Wednesday’s protests, and one protester who was shot died at a hospital Thursday. City officials said police did not shoot 26-year-old Justin Carr, and a suspect was arrested. The next two nights of protests were free of property damage and violence, with organizers stressing a message of peace at the end of the week. Charlotte is the latest U.S. city to be shaken by protests and recriminations over the death of a Black man at the hands of police, a list that includes Baltimore, Milwaukee, Chicago, New York and Ferguson, Missouri.
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the constant exposure to violence is leaving a generation of youth walking around with post-traumatic stress disorder. She urged the crowd to make a personal commitment to stopping violence. “It’s not cute when a man hits a woman, its not cute when a woman hits a man,” she told the crowd. “We have to say it when we see it, and not just march about
it once a year.” Once at the park participants were greeted by various vendors, activities for kids, food and entertainment by a number of artists, including the House of Soul and headliner Keke West, a mother and wife that, as a solo artist has had numerous songs and albums that have been featured on “Billboards Top 100,” including the hit single “Nothing in this World”.
Additionally, Wyatt has dealt with violent situations within her personal life and can attest to the importance of nonviolence and the importance of The Women’s Walk for Peace. Rose Price from Wilkinsburg said the march “made her day.” “I came here to march because I lost two family members to domestic violence and I just wanted to reach out to these women here and let them know there are organizations that can help them,” she said. “This is important, because you never know who’s life you can touch.”
BLACK AND BLUE—Patrol officers who maintain an increased presence downtown also maintain silence on the FOP local and national endorsement of Donald Trump in. (Photo by J.L. Martello)
Pittsburgh officers silent on FOP endorsement might disagree with the vote representing Fort Pitt Lodge 1’s 750 dues paying officers. Swartzwelder said Clinton did not respond to a survey, and declined to be interviewed by the national FOP. Trump did both. “You don’t want to hear from the people who police and keep people safe every day? And you don’t care what they have to say,” he added. “That’s a little annoying and frighting,” With the demise of the Guardians Black police as-
sociation more than a decade ago, there is no simple way to guage Black officer reaction. When asked for comment, past NOBLE President and Allegheny County Assistant Police Superintendent Maurita Bryant declined . According to the 2015 Bureau of Police Annual Report there are 776 police officers in Pittsburgh, with 118 of them being African American, 15 percent. That was not the case in Philadelphia, where the president of its Black police association, also call the
Guardians, blasted the National FOP and Philadelphia Lodge 5 leadership for endorsing Trump. Calling the Trump campaign “racist” and “sexist,” Guardian Civic League President and retired Philadelphia officer Rochelle Bilal called on the FOP membership to denounce the endorsement.” “In a climate [where] we are constantly trying to build a bridge between us and our communities, do we need our fraternal order to endorse somebody to divide us more,” she said.
ers had lived there when they were young before moving and growing up in Hazelwood—and he was last seen on surveillance cameras at the Western Avenue 7-11 on the North Side. “He was seen talking to somebody in the store—but the cops wouldn’t tell me anything beyond that,” she said. “All I have is rumors— and all I know for sure is my son is dead.”
Gray said what little she knows is the result of her frequent calls to the homicide squad. “After Richard was shot, nobody came to my house or anything—the only reason I know Det. O’Neil is because I called,” she said. “We still haven’t met faceto-face. I want to know why isn’t this case a priority like some others? I just don’t think they are dragging
their feet.” Police spokesperson Sonya Toler said that is not so. “Our detectives are not dragging their feet,” she said. “For anyone to think there is a priority placed on a case based on a person’s race they don’t understand what police detectives are going through. They pride themselves on solving cases and working with the community to solve cases. “
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younger bros who looked up to him and relied on him, like I did. This has changed our life tremendously.” Gray said putting together what happened that night is nearly impossible, especially since police have not told her much, if anything, about what they know. She said. West-Gray had been in at an after-hours club in the Hill District—he and his broth-
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Residents reinforce need for affordable housing two things—they buy in a neighboring community or the rent. “Raising the transfer tax will force them out, costing the city real estate taxes, or push them into the rental market—exacerbating the shortage. They flood the rental market and that forces up the rent. It defeats they whole purpose.” (J.L. Martello contributed to this story.)
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I understand city wants to modernize—I’m just asking council not to do it on the backs of people least able to afford it.” Alethea Sims, who has advocated for low-income housing in East Liberty since before the public housing highrises were torn down, also supported creating the fund. “I’ve been extremely low income my entire adult life. I’m happy to see this fund created,” she said. “It’s not just welfare queens and drug addicts like some people think— there are working people who can’t afford the rents. I just want council to make sure the low-income residents represented in everything—that when these decisions are made, someone
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who is affected by them is on these boards.” Josh Malloy, who is also from East Liberty, said the people who stay from the good time, through the bad times to see new good times, should be able to stay without paying all their income to rent. “I make $13 an hour at UPMC Mercy,” he said. “Where do I and the other members of the Black community go? If I’m forced to move to Penn Hills or Wilkinsburg where it’s cheaper, I lose the transportation options and other support I need just to work.” Council’s Affordable Housing Task Force, cochaired by City Councilman Danny Lavelle, reports that there is a shortage of 17,000 affordable rental units in the city and essen-
tially no federal or state money to help build new ones or renovate existing housing stock. It has proposed a $10 million annual tax assessment to feed the trust fund that would create those units. The method most preferred by City Councilman Rev. Ricky Burgess; increasing the realty transfer tax on home sales, could raise the funds faster than other options. Real estate agents, however, have testified at multiple hearings that such a plan has too many deleterious effects— especially since Allegheny County already increased that tax to balance the budget during Dan Onorato’s administration. Realtor Nancy Wright said if the closing costs on buying a house go up prospective buyers do one of
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by forcing the President to produce his birth certificate, it was rather clear that Trump was starting to unravel. As one commentator said after the debate, Trump just ran out of gas. Perhaps part of the reason Trump began to unravel is because, for the first time since he announced his candidacy, Trump finally encountered a moderator, Lester Holt, who wouldn’t allow him to run away with the show and who repeatedly insisted that he answer an actual question. Although some have criticized Holt as not being forceful enough in restraining Trump, that criticism is not quite accurate. Early on in the debate Trump did get away with elbowing and shoving his way through, but that tactic proved far less effective as the night progressed. And sometimes it appeared as if Holt figured it might be better just to sit back and let Trump hang himself with his own long rope, which he did more than once. This was also the first time Trump met Clinton face-to-face, and it obviously was a bit more difficult doing battle with Clinton when she was standing on stage next to him. Whether it was discussing foreign policy or the potent issue of race relations in America, Clinton’s answers were clearly more well thought-out, and she also did a better job of actually answering the questions. Perhaps the most outrageous and hilarious point of the night came when Trump said that his best feature was his temperament, after which he put on display one of the most bizarre temperaments ever displayed by a Republican—or Democratic— presidential nominee. Later, Trump whined that Clinton had not been nice to him with her mean-spirited TV ads, even though he claimed he has done no such thing to her. Apparently his repeated reference throughout the campaign to his opponent as ‘lying Hillary’ slipped his mind. Clinton also managed to skewer her opponent as a follow-up to Lester Holt’s ques-
tion to Trump, asking what he meant when he said that Clinton did not have a presidential ‘look’. Trump denied saying any such thing. Clinton would not let Trump off the hook, pushing the ‘look’ question to include how Trump has referred to the ‘look’ of various women as pigs, dogs, and worse. Having said all that, there are still two debates remaining. The final verdict of who the viewers consider to be the winner of this debate will become clear in coming days, but Clinton needs to not simply beat Trump but to beat him decisively, leaving little to no doubt. Because one thing for near certain is that Trump will likely be graded on a curve, simply because much less is expected of him than of Clinton. It should come as no surprise that few minds will be changed among voters who have already identified themselves as pro-Hillary or pro-Trump. At this stage of the game, with only weeks remaining, it’s not about changing the minds of those whose minds are made up. It’s about the fairly large number of undecideds. I’m guessing their indecisiveness has a lot to do with explaining the huge number of viewers watching the debate. People want to see the candidates for themselves, not filtered through the lens of what a reporter or pundit has to say. In tonight’s debate, Clinton showed her mastery of the issues, and her depth of experience and knowledge was on full display against a candidate who has coasted thus far largely powered by his cult of personality and a lazy press corps hungry for juicy sound bites, regardless of the content. If Clinton keeps applying pressure through the coming two debates, jabbing Trump’s weak spots such as his business failures, his documented history of housing discrimination and racism, and his continued lies about why he can’t release his tax returns (he says his hands are tied behind his back until the audit is completed, the IRS says Trump is free to release his taxes anytime he wants), Clinton’s lead in the polls will almost certainly hold through Nov. 8 on Election Day.
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also calling Nunn “My Dear Friend” and “My Dear Morehouse Brother.” “Radio Raheem will always be fighting da powers dat be. May God watch over Bill Nunn.” Nunn, who stood well over 6 feet tall, went on to appear in dozens of films and TV programs, including “New Jack City,” Sam Raimi’s “Spider-Man” trilogy and “Sirens.” Nunn was the son of a prominent Pittsburgh Steelers scout, also named Bill Nunn, and befriended future Steelers president Art Rooney II while both worked as ballboys for the NFL team. They would long savor a youthful prank, stealing the car of star defensive tackle “Mean” Joe Greene. “Joe showed up in a beautiful, green Lincoln Continental,” Rooney explained last year. “Me and Bill Nunn were ballboys and somehow Bill got the keys one night and we decided to take it for a ride. “We only told Joe that story about 10 years ago. We figured enough time had passed that we could disclose the little joyride.”
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Community Calendar Police Community Forum SEPT. 28—The NAACP Pittsburgh Branch and Black Women for Positive Change will host “Street Talk 101” with police from several communities, from 5:30 to 8 p.m. at Petra International Ministries, 235 Eastgate Drive, Pittsburgh, Pa. 15235. The event will also include a presentation on housing concerns. Refreshments will also be served.
PA Physician General Presentation SEPT. 30—Allegheny County Community College will host a presentation by Pennsylvania Physician General Dr. Rachel Levine, at 11 a.m. at the Boyce Campus, West Wing, 595 Beatty Road, Monroeville, Pa. 15146. Her “State of the State—Taking the Pulse of Pennsylvania’s Health” presentation will offer an opportunity to learn about the issues and concerns impacting health care in Pennsylvania.
Police-Community Relations Forum OCT. 4—The Church of the Redeemer presents the first in a series of Great Issues Forums on Race in Pittsburgh, 7 p.m., in its sanctuary, 5700 Forbes Ave. in Oakland. The police-community relations forum will feature presentations and discussions among University of Pittsburgh Law Professor David Harris, Pittsburgh police Chief Cameron McLay, Adjunct Professor at the Pitt School of Public Health Richard Garland, and Alliance for Police Accountability President Brandi Fisher.
50th Anniversary Celebration OCT. 5—The Community College of Allegheny County will celebrate its 50th year, 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. beginning with a ribbon cutting and rededication of West Hall, 808 Ridge Ave. On Pittsburgh’s North Side, which has been repurposed as the college’s new Cultural &
Fine Arts Center and includes the Art, Music, Speech, Language and Criminal Justice departments, as well as an art gallery and choral performance area. Tours of West Hall will follow the ceremony, as will presentations and a reception at the Forester Student Center from alumni, staff and members of the class of 1966.
Lifesharing Fair OCT. 6—The Allegheny County Lifesharing Coalition will host its 5th annual Lfesharing Fair from 5-8 p.m. at Citizen Care, 250 Clever Rd., McKees Rocks, Pa. 15136 for people diagnosed with an intellectual disability, their families, and anyone interested in becoming a provider family to learn more about Lifesharing, a residential service designed to provide care and support in a family home setting for someone with an intellectual disability. To register or for additional information, contact the Office of Intellectual Disability at 412-253-1252.
Citywide Interfaith Service OCT. 6—Pentecostal Temple Bishop Loren Mann, the Black Political Empowerment Project and the Coalition Against Violence will host an citywide interfaith service on violence and civic engagement at 6 p.m. The service will feature the blessing of youth in attendance and of those who have lost loved ones to violence. The Pentecostal Ensemble, the Mon Valley Community Choir, and Pastor Deryk Tines and the Lemmington Gospel Choral will perform. For more information, call 412-758-7898
Military Career Fair OCT. 20—RecruitMilitary will sponsor an All Veteran Career Fair, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Heinz Field, 100 Art Rooney Ave. The free hiring event is designed for veterans, transitioning military personnel, National Guard members, reservists and spouses. For more information, visit www.recruitmilitary.com.
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Black history finds home on National Mall with new museum by Jesse J. Holland and Darlene Superville
seum with an impassioned 31-minute speech on the National Mall. His audience included two former
legislation establishing the museum, and John Lewis, a veteran civil rights activist and longtime Democratic
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WASHINGTON (AP)— Black history officially has a new, prominent place in America’s story. With hugs, tears and the ringing of church bells, the new Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture opened its doors Saturday to help this nation understand, reconcile and celebrate African-Americans’ often-ignored contributions toward making this country what it is today. President Barack Obama, the nation’s first Black president, wiped away a tear as he formally opened the Smithsonian’s 19th mu-
“We’re not a burden on America, or a stain on America, or an object of pity or charity for America. We’re America.And that’s what this museum explains, the fact that our stories have shaped every corner of our culture.” PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA
RECEPTION—President Barack Obama walks into the Grand Foyer with Lonnie Bunch, Director of the Smithsonian Museum of African American History and Culture, and first lady Michelle Obama, to speak at a reception for the museum opening at the White House in Washington, Friday, Sept. 23. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
DEDICATION—First lady Michelle Obama wipes aways tears as she listens to her husband President Barack Obama speak at the dedication ceremony for the Smithsonian Museum of African American History and Culture on the National Mall in Washington, Saturday, Sept. 24. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
BASEBALL LEGEND—Baseball great, hall-of-famer Hank Aaron arrives for the dedication ceremony of the Smithsonian Museum of African American History and Culture on the National Mall in Washington, Saturday, Sept. 24. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
presidents, leaders from all branches of the federal government, and first lady Michelle Obama, whose lineage has been traced back to slaves in the South. She too shed a tear as her husband spoke. Obama noted one artifact in the museum: a stone marker from a slave block where Andrew Jackson and Henry Clay spoke in 1830. This item, Obama said, chronicles not just the fact that two powerful men spoke, but also that multitudes of slaves were “bought and sold, and bid like cattle.” “This national museum helps to tell a richer and fuller story of who we are,” Obama said. “It helps us better understand the lives, yes, of the president, but also the slave. The industrialist, but also the porter; the keeper of the status quo, but also of the activist seeking to overthrow that status quo; the teacher or the cook, alongside the statesman. And by knowing this other story, we better understand ourselves and each other.” Ground for the $540 million museum was broken in 2012 on a five-acre tract near the Washington Monument, and construction was completed earlier this year. Millions of donors, known and unknown, contributed $315 million in private funds ahead of the opening. “It’s like walking across the desert and finally getting to a fountain of water to quench your thirst. It’s absolutely breathtaking for me,” said Verna Eggleston, 61, of New York City. The names of some big donors are on prominent spaces inside: the Oprah Winfrey Theater; the Michael Jordan Hall: Game Changers; and the Robert F. Smith Explore Your Family History Center, named for the CEO of investment firm Vista Equity Partners after a $20 million gift announced Monday. With exhibits ranging from the glass-topped casket used to bury lynching victim Emmett Till to a fedora owned by late pop superstar Michael Jackson, the museum helps to complete the American tale by incorporating highs and lows, triumph and trauma experienced by Black Americans since the first African slaves arrived on this continent almost 400 years ago. “We’re not a burden on America, or a stain on America, or an object of pity or charity for America. We’re America,” Obama said. “And that’s what this museum explains, the fact that our stories have shaped every corner of our culture.” Obama was joined on stage by his predecessor, former President George W. Bush, who in 2003 signed
congressman from Georgia who co-sponsored the bill. Bush, accompanied by his wife, Laura, said the museum tells the unvarnished truth, that a country founded on the promise of liberty once held millions of people in chains. “A great nation does not hide its history,” Bush said. “It faces its flaws and corrects them.” Lewis, who is featured in the museum, said he could feel the weight of history around the museum, with slave voices whispering of escape and church choirs singing of freedom. “All their voices, roaming for centuries, have finally found their home here, in this great monument to our pain, our suffering and our victory,” Lewis said. After the speech, Obama hugged the congressman as he returned to his seat. Also on hand were former President Bill Clinton, Chief Justice John Roberts and House Speaker Paul Ryan; celebrities including Oprah Winfrey, Robert De Niro, Will Smith, and Angela Bassett; and thousands of Americans who just wanted to witness the museum’s opening firsthand. “I’m just elated and can’t express how much joy and gratitude I have to be here today and witness history,” said Master Sgt. Donald Sparks of Houston, who just finished a yearlong deployment in Iraq. The honor of helping Obama open the doors went to Ruth Bonner, 99, daughter of a Mississippi slave who escaped to freedom. The president and first lady joined Bonner and her family in ringing a bell from the historic First Baptist Church of Williamsburg, Virginia, to signal that the museum was officially open. The church, believed to be among the first Baptist churches organized entirely by Black people, acquired its Freedom Bell in 1886. It will be returned to the church for its 240th anniversary later this year. The 400,000-square-foot museum, designed by British-Ghanaian architect David Adjaye, strikes a unique shape on the Mall with its three-tiered bronze exterior panels inspired by an African wooden column. The exterior tiles are inspired by 19th century ironwork created by slaves in the South, and allow sunlight into the museum through patterned openings. Inside, museum officials say they have nearly 3,000 items occupying 85,000 square feet of exhibition space. The museum’s opening “finally marks the place and time where we’re finally recognized...and it’s about time,” said Shenise Foster of Alexandria, Virginia.
VIEW FROM MUSEUM—The Washington Monument is framed by a window at the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, Wednesday, Sept. 14. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
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College players join protests, raise fists for anthem by Joe Reedy AP Sports Writer
Football players for Michigan and Michigan State along with a group of students at North Carolina CAMPAIGNING WITH A LEGEND—Democratic presidential candi- raised their fists during date Hillary Clinton takes the stage with Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., the national anthem Satright, during a rally Sunday, Feb. 14, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/John urday. Locher) The gestures at the games come following a week punctuated by riots in Charlotte, North Carolina, and the killing of an unarmed Black man in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Three Michigan State players — Delton Williams, Kenney Lyke and Gabe Sherrod — held their right fists in the air while standing on the sideline before the No. 8 Spartans hosted day of rallies in Charlotte, by Thomas Beaumont North Carolina, since a No. 11 Wisconsin. Associated Press Writer “Whether somebody Black man was shot by poDES MOINES, Iowa (AP) lice earlier in the week. Vi- salutes, puts the hand over their heart or does someolence peaked Wednesday — Democrats wasted no before the National Guard thing else, everybody has a time looking for political choice to make,” Michigan was called in the next day opportunity after Donald State coach Mark Dantonio to maintain order. Trump falsely accused added after the Spartans’ Trump this month put Hillary Clinton of starting 30-6 loss. “Our young peoto rest the myth he had the rumor that President ple are in college, and I can peddled for years that Barack Obama was not promise you one thing, that Obama might have been born in the U.S. when the flag is presented born outside the U.S. But Just hours later, Rep. Hain the same breath, he said in some respect, I guess it keem Jeffries of New York becomes much more imClinton started it. In fact, was on Philadelphia R&B portant now. It’s not just, she steered clear of the station, WDAS, critiquing oh by the way, we’ll just conspiracy theory when Trump’s behavior. Days stand for ‘The Star-Spanit bubbled up in the 2008 later Clinton’s North Cargled Banner.’ primary campaign and olina state organizers met “All I can do is try and disregarded advice from her pollster to contrast her lead the best way I can, “If they feel like American roots favorably and be positive and accepting to our football team they have the Afri- with Obama’s. and our players,” the coach Although Clinton camcan-American com- paign aides said the added. “When we come together after the national birther issue would stay at munity locked up, anthem, we come together the forefront in outreach they should be very, to African-Americans and with solidarity, and I think that’s what’s important.” voters, they devery careful about undecided Several players for No. clined to say whether they 4 Michigan also had their expected to run TV ads making that assumpabout it. The campaign did fists up before facing Penn tion.” State in Ann Arbor, Michproduce an online ad that igan. Among them were SARA LOMAX REESES, could convert to a televiKhalid Hill, Mike McCray, sion spot. president of Former Obama campaign Devin Bush, Elysee MbemPhiladelphia’s pollster Paul Harstad said Bosse and Jourdan Lewis. Most college conferences independent Black radio the added pressure, if kept play the anthem before up, could make a difference station WURD in competitive states with the teams take the field. The Big Ten is among the large segments of Black exceptions. in Raleigh, in part to chart voters. The University of Michi“Trump further alienhow to use negative reacates Blacks and gives tion to Trump’s statement them marginally more to motivate the state’s motivation to turn out, disproportionately high
Clinton team hopes ‘birther’ flap will motivate Black voters
TRUMP SUPPORTER—Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump listens as he is introduced by boxing promoter Don King prior to speaking to the Pastors Leadership Conference at New Spirit Revival Center, Wednesday, Sept. 21, in Cleveland, Ohio. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci) Black voting bloc to turn out. And Clinton’s team welcomed Georgia Rep. John Lewis, a civil rights activist, to a Philadelphia voter registration event where he railed against Trump’s claim. Polls suggest Clinton can count on an overwhelming percentage of support from African-Americans. But she can’t necessarily count on them to vote. “If they feel like they have the African-American community locked up, they should be very, very careful about making that assumption,” Sara Lomax Reese, president of Philadelphia’s independent Black radio station WURD, said of Clinton and her team. One of the biggest questions of the 2016 election is whether African-American voters will turn out for Clinton as they did for the first Black president. They voted at a historic level in 2008 and an unexpectedly high rate in 2012. Also to be seen is how political consequences play out over tensions between majority-White police departments and Black communities, stirred by police shootings of African-Americans and ensuing unrest. Saturday marked the fifth
which could be a significant factor in close states like Ohio, Pennsylvania, Florida, North Carolina or Georgia,” he said. It’s hard to know whether it’s worth spending the money to advertise about the issue because it’s uncharted territory, said University of Florida voter statistician Mike McDonald. “Romney and McCain didn’t go there,” McDonald said, referring to the two previous GOP presidential nominees who didn’t question Obama’s birthplace. Seven in 10 Blacks nationally say they would be afraid if Trump is elected, compared with 56 of all likely voters nationwide, in an Associated Press-GfK Poll taken Sept. 15-19. About two-thirds of African-Americans would be excited if Clinton is elected president, twice the percentage of all likely voters. Mo Elleithee, a former Clinton adviser, said ads taking Trump to task on the birther issue might be worth it in states such as Pennsylvania and North Carolina if there’s a chance that would help Clinton even marginally increase her support from Black voters. “They ought to make that play,” Elleithee said.
PLAYERS PROTEST—Michigan football players raise their fists up in protest during the National Anthem, before an NCAA college football game against Penn State, Saturday, Sept. 24, in Ann Arbor, Mich. (Junfu Han/The Ann Arbor News via AP) gan is 6 miles from Eastern Michigan University, where chanting students marched on the field Friday night after the school’s 27-24 victory over Wyoming. The students were protesting racist graffiti on the campus earlier in the
Michigan President James Smith said in a statement Saturday. Before North Carolina hosted Pittsburgh, students wearing black shirts remained seated with fists raised. Some 60 to 70 Black and White students
“Whether somebody salutes, puts the hand over their heart or does something else, everybody has a choice to make. Our young people are in college, and I can promise you one thing, that when the flag is presented in some respect, I guess it becomes much more important now. It’s not just, oh, by the way, we’ll just stand for ‘The Star-Spangled Banner.” MICHIGAN STATE COACH MARK DANTONIO
week. “We have great respect for our students engaged in the constructive efforts underway to address the issues we face,” Eastern
participated. The protests date to the refusal by San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick to stand for the anthem before NFL
preseason games. He cited racial injustice and police brutality among the reasons. Since then, other athletes across the country have made their own protests. Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh was Kaepernick’s coach for four seasons in San Francisco. Last month, Harbaugh said he supported Kaepernick’s motivation to speak out but took exception to his method. Saturday’s gestures came a day after it was announced that Tommie Smith and John Carlos will join the U.S. Olympic team at the White House for a meeting with President Barack Obama. The raised-fist salutes by the American sprinters on the medal stand at the 1968 Olympics became a political flash point. U.S. Olympic Committee Scott Blackmun has asked them to serve as ambassadors as the federation tries to bring more diversity to its ranks.
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What about Black men’s Second Amendment rights?
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Clinton needs to reach young voters Hillary Clinton is clearly qualified to be president. She has been a first lady, U.S. Senator and Secretary of State. She is also a Yale-educated lawyer who has deep knowledge of domestic and foreign policy. But will her record and resume be enough in an election where many voters are seeking change? Her opponent, Republican Donald Trump, is asking Americans to vote for him because he will “Make America great again,” a vague enough assertion that is left up to the voter to interpret. He has demonstrated a superficial knowledge of domestic and foreign policy. But in the Republican primaries he defeated opponents with far more experience and knowledge of the issues. Still, the contest between Clinton and Trump should not be this close. But it is. Trump is gaining on Clinton in the national polls, including in the important battleground states. Some Democrats are nervous, even though Clinton holds a clear advantage in the Electoral College. Clinton is vulnerable, especially when it comes to young voters, which is why she was in Philadelphia September 19 to discuss her “Pennsylvania Millennials for Hillary” agenda. The initiative was announced recently in an effort to reach millennials, those who fall between the ages of 18-34. Clinton’s visit and her new initiative comes after the publication of a Sept. 6 New York Times story titled, “Young Blacks Voice Skepticism on Hillary Clinton, Worrying Democrats.” The article stated, “Their skepticism is rooted in a deep discomfort with the political establishment that they believe the 68-year-old former first lady and secretary represents. They share a lingering mistrust of Mrs. Clinton and her husband over criminal justice issues. They are demanding more from politicians as part of a new, confrontational wave of Black activism that has arisen in response to police killings of unarmed African Americans.” Clinton has a problem with young voters in general, not just Black young voters. Her problem is not age. U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders had young voters supporting him even though he is 75 years old. It is not a matter of being in politics too long. Again, Sanders has held elective office since 1981. It is not gender. U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren is a favorite among young Democrats. Clinton needs a better message and focus to reach young voters. In some cases it is not her message but emphasis. Earlier in the summer she sought to win over young voters with her proposal for debt-free college tuition. The Clinton campaign is currently placing emphasis on portraying Trump as racist and reckless. This does not appear to be enough. The latest New York Times/CBS News poll showed that 36 percent of voters under 30 planned to vote for a third-party candidate such as Gary Johnson of the Libertarian Party or Jill Stein of the Green Party. In 2008, Barack Obama beat a more experienced Hillary Clinton in the primaries and Republican opponent Senator John McCain in the general election, partly because of a historically high turnout of voters age 18-25. Obama convinced American voters that he was going to transform politics with the campaign themes of hope and change. (Reprinted from the Philadelphia Tribune)
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With the two most recent killings of Black men two big questions popped up. When is it going to end? And why don’t Black men have Second Amendment Rights? On Sept. 16 Terence Crutcher’s car broke down on the middle of a bridge in the middle of the road. Either he or someone called for assistance. But instead of help, he was gunned down by the police because they saw him as a threat because he was big, Black, and wore loose fitting cloths. So instead of assisting a stranded motorist the police killed an innocent man they saw as a threat because he was big and Black. They never found a gun. They tried to say he had PCP in the car, but I’ve never heard of PCP being a deadly threat to anyone other than the user. But at least in this case the shooter, a White female police officer, has been charged with First Degree Manslaughter. Now whether she is actually convicted by the all White jury, yes I’m going out on a limb in saying it will be an all White jury, is another matter. Another police shooting of Keith Scott in Charlotte, N.C., Sept. 20 who police said he had a gun, followed this shooting. But video once again showed he was no threat to the police. This time the shooter was a Black officer. There was a dispute over whether the police video should be shown. Well once again it took video from the victim’s family, his wife Rakeyla Scott, who made her video begging the police not to shoot him, which eventually forced the police to release their video, which still showed he posed no threat. But one video did have a gun lying on the
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Just Sayin’ ground near Keith Scott’s body, but his family and lawyer said he had no gun. If it wasn’t for private videos by family members from their cell phones most if not all of the latest cases of police killing Black men would not have been made public. Yet North Carolina along with several other states is working to make it illegal to release police video to the public. North Carolina law will be in affect Oct. 1, stating that it infringes on police and citizens rights to release the videos. So basically what it is saying is that the victim has no rights. The purpose of the videos, body cameras, and dash cameras is to give a correct showing of what happened in each incident. But if the police are not forced to release the videos, how are the victims protected? Another question I have behind all this is if the Republican Right Wing can cry about how this country is going to the criminals if everyone doesn’t have the right to bear arms, then why can’t Blacks bear arms? The right to bear arms means with a license you can carry a gun. Some states it’s concealed, some revealed and some both. So does this mean open season on Blacks because they
have guns. Oh, I’m sorry, it’s already open season on Blacks. What I’m saying is the first thing out of the police mouth is “he had a gun.” So what happens to the thousands of Blacks young and old who have licensed guns? Will they even get a chance to tell the police they have a licensed gun? Or will the police see the gun and shoot, stating they felt their life was in danger. It has gotten to the point in the Black community that with all the Black on Black violence most young men are going to have to have a gun to protect themselves if things don’t get better, which is all the more reason why something must be done about out of control police departments who are shooting first and asking questions later. *** The alleged killer of the young man, Justin Carr, 26, who was killed during the Charlotte protests, has been arrested. Rayquan Borum, 21, reportedly admitted to the shooting. The ACLU in the Tulsa shooting stated that the police not only was wrong in its shooting of Crutcher but that the police did nothing to prevent Crutcher from bleeding out in the streets by not providing assistance. Some say police aren’t trained to give emergency assistance but I say it stands to reason that all police officers would be trained how to stop the bleeding because what would happen if an officer is shot or cut. If other officers haven’t been trained then the wounded officers bleeds to death when it could have been prevented. (Ulish Carter is the managing editor of the New Pittsburgh Courier.)
Blacks should have animal rights (NNPA)—It appears that the law enforcement officers of America have declared open season on African Americans, both male and female. “Open Season” occurs in the hunting world when one is free to kill a particular species at “anytime” as opposed to “regulated hunting,” which provides certain times and seasons of hunting of specific species. Seasonal hunting requires permits and it appears that the police badge has become a permanent hunting permit. The continued shooting of African American males, in particular, in spite of the fact that the number of such shootings in recent months and years have clearly shown deadly force was not necessary. The facts surrounding these shootings suggest that the “to protect and serve” slogan found on patrol cars no longer applies to the communities supposedly being served, but now only apply to the police themselves. If African Americans and Blacks had animal rights, there would be serious penalties for shooting “out
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Commentary of season.” Clearly, we are no longer considered human beings. The frequency and the conditions under which “unarmed” Black men are being shot suggest that maybe police training manuals have included language from the March 7, 1857, U. S. Supreme Court Decision in the Dred Scott case which held that in a “free” state where slavery was outlawed, a Black man was not entitled to his freedom and that an African American could never be a citizen of the United States. The translation has been “A Black man has no rights that a White man is bound to respect.” As farfetched as this might sound, clearly the continued police killing
of African Americans under the same “quick shoot” circumstances suggest either a lack of awareness to the many blatant shootings of unarmed Black men, or an ideology so ingrained within law enforcement that all Black males are dangerous, that there is no concern for public reaction or perceptions. If we were formally declared an “endangered species” we would have more protection under the law than we are currently being given under police encounters of “any kind.” As citizens of the United States, we are guaranteed “due process,” which includes a trial by a jury of our peers, and the right to confront our accusers with the burden of proof on the prosecution. Instant police shootings under the present “open season” policies applied around the country appear to have cancelled all these rights. Law enforcement should remember that for every action, there is a reaction and all those cannot be controlled by force.
(Dr. John Warren is publisher of the San Diego Voice and Viewpoint/NNPA Member.)
How non-compliance almost became a deadly offense I think that what is lost in many of the discussions about police accountability and the need for transparency in police-community relations are the real experiences that real people are having everyday with aggressive policing. Here is one of mine: After teaching a class at the University of Pittsburgh, on a spring evening a few years ago, I walked through Schenley Park to pick up my contact lens order from Eyetique in Squirrel Hill. I decided to walk, even though my car was parked at the university, because it was one of the first days with warmer weather that year. I wanted to enjoy it. On my way back to the university, on Circuit Drive, a police car, lights flashing, came to a halt beside me. The officer jumped out and shouted for me to get spread eagle across the trunk of his car because, he said, a burglary had just been committed in the area. I tried to comply but something inside of me was repelled by the thought of seeing myself, wearing eyeglasses, business casual clothing and carrying a little plastic bag containing contact lenses, being spread across the trunk of the policeman’s car. There were other people along Circuit Drive that evening, but they were White and they weren’t stopped. I was startled by the police man’s aggressive behavior. I froze in my tracks. I did not comply. Although I wanted to comply, only to avoid making a bad situation worse, my body resisted. This is what was running through my mind: “I can’t do this. The university
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Commentary is right down the street and my church, St. Paul Cathedral, is within blocks of here. What if my students, or members of my parish, see me spread eagle across the trunk of this cop’s car? There will be nothing I can do to squash the rumors in my church that ‘that Black lector and Eucharistic minister’ had committed a crime. And there will be nothing I can do to stop those same rumors from spreading among my students and colleagues at the university.” I froze. The officer reached for his gun because I was not in compliance. A description of the perpetrator of the burglary crackled over his radio: “We’re looking for a White male in his early 20s, about 5’7, wearing a white t-shirt and running away from the scene of the crime.” I was a middle-aged Black male, 6’1, dressed in business casual clothing, and I hadn’t been breaking a sweat until the cop rushed up on me. Once we both heard the description of the perpetrator he was forced to let me go, but not before he defensively and unapologetically shouted over his shoulder “I’m just doing my job.” When I had a chance to catch my
breath, my heart was still pounding, I thought about what had just happened I realized that I could have easily wound up as another story on the evening news: a Black man who was shot dead because he didn’t comply with police orders. If not shot, then I could have been arrested. Try to explain that to the dean. Non-compliance is a favorite discretionary charge that many officers use against Black people in the city of Baltimore, where I am currently attending seminary. Neighborhood perceptions that this is happening are supported by the results from recent investigations of the Baltimore PD by the U.S. Department of Justice. It is easy to say all one has to do is comply, but when the situation happens, and you are in-the-moment, if the officer’s behavior seems unreasonable and you are physically threatened, the fear that leads to non-compliance should probably not be justification for summary execution, or—in many cases—even arrest. Police should try to diffuse the tension in their interaction with the public, not ratchet up these situations. After more than 50 years of this, we are not crazy for saying this is a problem, and we are not unreasonable for being fed up with it.
(C. Matthew Hawkins is a seminarian in Baltimore, MD for the Pittsburgh Catholic Diocese. He previously taught in the School of Social Work, at the University of Pittsburgh, the History Department of Carlow University and Imani Christian Academy in East Hills.)
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Time to take Black community heroin overdoses ignored, the ‘deplorables’ White community heroin overdoses a crisis seriously Are your friends, acquaintances, or colleagues a “deplorable”? Are they the “racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamaphobic—you name it” people of Hillary Clinton’s basket comment? Or in some other manner, are they a . . . gasp . . .Trump supporter? (Insert Alfred Hitchcock-like theme music here.) Republican Presidential candidate Donald Trump’s supporters apparently are not who we think they are. Trump is actually leading by 5 percentage points in a new Bloomberg poll among Ohio voters. Yes, you read that right, leading. A whole state is taking him seriously. (Trump is leading in Florida too— by 2 percentage points—but politically, that’s not a real state. After the hanging chads thing in the 2000 presidential tallies, it became more like an outlying land mass of unpredictability that we all have to tolerate.)
Sheila Simmons
Commentary The Bloomberg poll says Trump’s supporters are made up of more than just uneducated White people. They now include the educated White people—the supposedly more enlightened. Personally, I don’t generally do name-calling. So Clinton’s description of American residents whom she might have to serve later left me slightly uncomfortable. But then came word of the protest at a Trump rally in Asheville, N.C., where a 73-year-old South Carolina man punched a female protester in the face. The 69-year-old victim, recalled the incident recently on WLOS-TV, the local news station in Asheville, saying, “I said, ‘You better learn to speak Russian,’ and I said, ‘The first two words are going to be ‘ha ha.’ He stopped in his tracks, and he turned around and just cold-cocked me.” She reported falling on her oxygen tank, and being left with sore ribs, a sore jaw and a cut to her elbow, according to the story on WLOS.com. Cold-cock a 69-year-old woman with an oxygen tank? Who does that? People who are, err, deplorable? The deplorables are not ashamed of their deplorableness. In a rally in Ohio recently, Trump supporters showed up with “Deplorable Me” T-shirts. It all has the eerie glee of a KKK rally, or one of those pick-a-nigger (picnic) events whose images featured smiling children. Trump’s base is still largely White. According to Bloomberg, his biggest demographic is White men without a college degree (+43 percent), White men overall (+27 percent) and White women without a college degree (+23 percent). It also said 7 in 10 of the Trump supporters polled in Ohio acknowledged that the Mexican wall was “unrealistic.” (“Dumb” is a better word, but hey, I don’t write the poll questions.) For the voters surveyed, their negative feelings about Clinton boiled down to their distrust around the 2012 Benghazi attacks in Libya (59 percent), her private email server (57 percent) and the Clinton Foundation’s donors (53 percent). Fifty-seven percent were also skeptical of the trade deals. Unemployment and jobs were also top issues. In Ohio, enough people had worked through their issues on race to give Barack Obama a more favorable opinion than of Clinton or Trump. Forty-six percent indicated they viewed him favorably. So Trump supporters are not exactly illiterate people who’ve never traveled beyond the hills of West Virginia. Some are part of our daily lives. And they don’t care if their leader has called Mexicans racists, ordered supporters to sock protesters in the face or called a woman a fat pig. They’re with him. But Black voters and others who have laughed off such episodes need to start taking Trump seriously. We need to consider that this man could be the next leader of our nation and of the free world. Pennsylvania voter registration deadline is Oct. 11. If you’re not registered, get on it, before we become what the rest of the world considers—a nation of “deplorables.”
(Sheila Simmons is an award-winning journalist and a public relations specialist. She is the author of “Memoir of a Minnie Riperton Fan.” She can be reached at ssimmons@phillytrib.com or www.simmonssheila.com.)
As a teenager growernment from the federing up I witnessed drug Louis ‘Hop’ Kendrick al level to the local level dealers and users from a did not give a damn, afdistance. We were pointter all no one was using ed out who the dealers the junk but the monwere, the ones with the keys, “colored folks”. fancy cars, pretty womTwo experiences ocen, and pockets full of curred in my lifetime money. They were big when I was a narcotics spenders and usually detective that I will albig braggers about how ways remember. The much money they were making. Often they first occurred during a raid where no drugs would come in the bars, clubs, buying alcohol were found and the chief who was in charge of for the entire bar, front and back. All of their the raid asked the man where do you live and jokes were funny, their view point was always the reply was Homewood. The chief then said right because they were the big spenders. The we will be back Friday, if we don’t find any users were generally the ones always in a hur- drugs we will bring some, so take your poison ry and sometimes they looked like they were out our town and take it back to “Homewood sleeping, but it was the effect of the drugs, it where it belongs.” The second was the Diswas referred to as nodding. However the first trict Attorney issued a directive to the office time some others of our football team and I after my partner and I went to Mt. Lebanon witnessed the effects of drugs close up was on a drug raid that from that day no raids during a night football game our team was were to be conducted in the affluent White playing on Kennard field. The quarterback neighborhoods unless his top D.A. cleared was calling signals and all at once he grew the warrant. A reporter asked me about the silent. We glanced and he was nodding, the directive and I responded that it was unconyear was 1950. Those of us who realized what stitutional and racist to have two standards was going on called time out and replaced the for White and Black persons. That following quarterback. The next day a meeting of the Monday when I arrived in the office I was football team was called and to our dismay told to surrender my gun and badge. It was there were about six other players who were the end of my understanding from the inside shooting heroin, and over an extended peri- how the system does not work equally. od of time some others became involved. At a Open drug corners still exist in Black neighperiod of time there were 27 members of our borhoods in September 2016, because the club, but as I write this column only two of us powers to be don’t care and try to justify it are still living. by saying, “Blacks don’t care.” Some Blacks The selling and using of heroin began to ex- try to justify our sons and daughters’ actions pand and the dealers were now known across by saying Blacks don’t have ships and planes Allegheny County and they were idolized by to bring drugs in the country and they are some and known by untold numbers of per- right, but they are the ones who bring it into sons. The majority of people did not view the our neighborhoods. When Blacks cried out for dealers as merchants of destruction, but as help we were ignored; they continued to echo neighborhood guys, who were making mon- in the inner office “it is the monkey’s probey. After all they did money favors and even lem.” financed sport teams and contributed to the Tragically in the White influential commueconomy. How? The police would accept their nities “chickens have come home to roost” but money, or confiscate their money, bonds men they still are reluctant to call it like it is; they got rich, and lawyers got rich, certain judges want to be different than us they’d rather use prospered, and certain politicians Black and terms like overdose crisis. (Louis “Hop” Kendrick is a contributor to the New White benefitted financially. In my estimation the greatest tragedy was that the gov- Pittsburgh Courier.)
To Tell The Truth
All police shootings are local In the 1980’s speaker woman. There were of the house Tip O’Neil J. Pharoah Doss four officers, three male always emphasized “all and one female, and the politics is local”. In othwoman fired her gun at er words, the hierarchy the same time another of problem solving for officer fired his Taser. the citizen is local, state, In less than a week she federal. was charged with first He’s right. degree manslaughter. One problem, nothing After the officer was has been more opprescharged the sister of the sive for Black Americans than this hierarchy. victim said, “We know the history of these Black Americans had to appeal to the federal cases, we know this is a formality, we know government to declare local and state laws she’s been charged, but then we get no conunconstitutional. victions.” The LA Times called the felony That’s history. charges “unusual” and said, “Since the fatal And based on that history President Barack shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo, Obama said racism is in the DNA of America, in 2014 the string of officer-involved shootbut is it possible the byproduct of that DNA ings has given visibility and momentum to is that Black Americans automatically indict the Black Lives Matter movement … And the nation for local incidents? members of the Congressional Black Caucus Example: in Washington stood outside the Department Back during the 2000 Presidential Race civ- of Justice and demanded a stronger, toughil rights advocates made racial profiling, or er response to repeated instances of police Driving-While-Black, a national issue. These shooting Blacks.” advocates asked candidates if they were Sounds good. elected president, would they sign an execuExcept they recited a national narrative tive order banning racial profiling. Candi- that is not representative of the local realidates either made a campaign commitment ty, just four months ago in Tulsa a volunteer to consider the possibility or they promised, sheriff’s deputy was convicted of second-delike George W. Bush, that as president they gree manslaughter by a jury with no African would end the practice. American members. He was sentenced to Bush became president. four years in prison. The volunteer sheriff’s In 2003 headlines read: Bush Issues Feder- deputy stated he mistook his handgun for his al Ban on Racial Profiling Taser when he shot and killed an unarmed It was the first time the federal government Black man last year. imposed across the board guidelines on racial This case in the same city of Tulsa is a profiling. It governed the conduct of 70 feder- better comparison than what took place in al law enforcement agencies. Ferguson, New York, or Baltimore because Great. the recent incident with the woman officer But there are over 12,000 local police de- also involves the use of a gun instead of a partments, each with their own policy man- Taser. The fact that two officers with the ual, which a federal ban can’t regulate. The same training, with the same equipment, in Washington director of the American Civil the same situation pulled different weapons Liberties Union said, “This policy acknowl- means one of them inaccurately assessed the edges racial profiling as a national concern, degree of the threat and the inaccurate offibut it does nothing to stop it.” cer was charged. Sound familiar? And she’ll be found guilty. President Barack Obama has been accused But after the woman is convicted in Tulsa of doing nothing to stop police shootings of those that automatically indict the nation for unarmed Black men in America but all police local incidents will change my title to the disshootings are local. missive: All convictions are local. (J. Pharoah Doss is a contributor to the New Pittsburgh Recently in Tulsa, Oklahoma another Black man was killed by a police officer, a White Courier. He blogs at jpharoahdoss@blogspot.com)
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When catcalling kills INDIANAPOLIS—Tiarah Poyau. She is one of the latest names added to a growing list of young women whose lives have been brutally cut down at the hands of men who couldn’t accept that their advances had been spurned … men who couldn’t take no for an answer. Poyau, a 22-year-old student, was fatally shot while walking the J’Ouvert parade route with her friends this past Labor Day weekend. Witnesses say she told the alleged shooter to “get off of her” before being shot at close range above her right eye. The accused gunman, 20-year-old Reginald Moise, was trying to grind on Poyau before their brief and deadly exchange. Moise reportedly left the scene soon after, and four hours later was picked up by police for drunk driving and shooting up his cousin’s Brooklyn apartment. In an hour-long interview with the Daily News, Moise was remorseful and added that he has no recollection of his actions that night. This disregard for human life, this reckless behavior and toxic masculinity can be a woman’s worst nightmare. Just ask the friends and loved ones of Mary Spears or Janese Talton-Jackson. In January, Talton-Jackson, 29, was shot in the chest and left to die on a Pittsburgh city street after reportedly telling Charles McKinney she wasn’t interested in his date offer. In October of 2014, 27-yearold Spears was out with her fiance at an American Legion Post on Detroit’s east side when a man approached her, asking for her phone number. He became upset when she didn’t oblige, and even after being escorted out of the nightclub, he took things to another level by letting off a couple gunshots in the venue. One of those shots fatally wounded Spears. Despite the numerous instances of fatal catcalling encounters, there are some men who believe conversations around street harassment are overblown and frivolous. I’ve experienced this personally when explaining to my male friends and family what is and is not OK when interacting with the opposite sex. One friend remarked to me that he hates it when he goes out to clubs and all girls want to do is hang out with the friends they came with. I probed deeper to get more of an understanding of what, exactly, frustrated him about this. “Well, what’s the point in them getting all dressed up to be anti-social all night?” I explained to him that a woman’s choice to engage or not engage him in dancing, conversation or whatever is just that— her choice. Women do not owe men anything—not our time, attention, phone numbers, or bodies. Nothing. It bothered me that this seemingly simple concept didn’t click right away. For him, there was still room for debate. It made me wonder what happened in his upbringing that allowed for this sort of thinking. I imagine he received certain social cues from his father, brothers and uncles about how men and women should interact with one another. Judging from his reaction to our talk, I think it’s fair to infer it was his first time being informed on a woman’s right to choose, and that’s scary. Though street harassment is a grossly under-researched topic, international advocacy organization Stop Street Harassment reports that of 2,000 people surveyed, 65 percent of women had experienced street harassment. Of that number, 23 percent had been sexually touched, 20 percent had been followed and 9 percent had been forced to do something sexual. The numbers are startling, and for those of us who have experienced such, the fear of being harassed—or worse, physically attacked—causes you to constantly be on guard, analyzing your surroundings, clothing choices and the way in which you respond (or don’t respond) to unwanted advances. It is exhausting and troublesome. In fact, if I had $1 for every time my friends or I experienced harassment, we’d probably have enough to live on an island, free from potential harassers. So where do we go from here? I don’t believe law or policy are viable methods to end street harassment, and to be frank, as long as people exist on this planet, someone will be disrespected, someone will be mistreated and someone will be harassed. It is an unfortunate reality. I believe we lessen the instances of street harassment by continuing to educate our brothers, fathers, boyfriends, teachers and our children on what it means to be an asset to society, as opposed to a liability. I think that we need to provide more safe public, professional and social places for women to exist without fear of onslaught. If you see something, say something. If you’re out and you see a young woman being put in an uncomfortable situation, a simple, “You OK, sis?” (Thank you, Feminista Jones) could literally save a life. If you’d like more information on street harassment or would like to share your own story, visit stopstreetharassment. com. (Ebony Chappel, The Indianapolis Recorder @ EbonyTheWriter)
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Leaders tour Creative Youth Center at Homewood YMCA Local leaders and elected officials got an early glimpse of progress on the construction of the Creative Youth Center during the “Better Together” Advocacy Tour of the Homewood
YMCA. Phase one of construction is nearly complete, and YMCA leaders will show officials how students will use the new music education suite, recording studio,
demonstration kitchen and high-tech flexible classroom will transform the Y’s afterschool and summer enrichment programs. In addition, YMCA leaders also showed plans for the
COMPLETE TOUR—James Brown of the Lighthouse and the YMCA Homewood takes everyone around the YMCA under construction and explains what they are doing. (Photos by J.L. Martello)
MEN WORKING TO GET CENTER READY
outdoor garden and plaza, black box theater, art & design lab, computer lab and much more that will be included in later phases of construction. The “Better Together” Ad-
vocacy Tour of the Homewood YMCA was part of the Pennsylvania State Alliance of YMCAs’ Advocacy Week. The YMCA marks advocacy week by inviting elected officials, local lead-
ers and community members to tour YMCA buildings and activities to see how the YMCA’s programs support youth development, healthy living and social responsibility.
A NEW COMPUTER LAB FOR THE YOUTH
NEW KITCHEN—Everyone speaking while they are in the new kitchen and dining area.
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You may wonder how the costumes from “The Wiz Live” landed in Pittsburgh. Something like this just doesn’t happen overnight. On the evening of the gala one name continued to be credited for bringing the unique exhibit to Pittsburgh, Demeatria Boccella (co-founder of Fashion Africana). Evan Frazier spoke about her drive to find sponsors and co-founder of Fashion Africana Darnell L. McLaurin talked about her creativity and her drive and tenacity. Pittsburgh based Designer Kiya Tomlin and husband Mike Tomlin got involved as well. Boccella was amazed to find out that Kiya‘s maternal grandfather, musician Bobby Tucker worked with Quincy Jones to arrange the music for the 1978 film version of “The Wiz.” Brynn Williams is Kiya Tomlin’s niece and has performed on Broadway. Williams’ credits include Lazarus, Bye Bye Birdie and 13, A New Musical. On the night of the Gala she did a killer version of Home. How about this Pittsburgh connection, The Wiz Live costume designer Paul Tazewell was on faculty at Carnegie Mellon University from 20032006. Tazewell’s next project is “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks.” Do your research on that one. A movie is being made on this phenomenal story. The evening was exciting and this is just the type of events that belong at the August Wilson Center. Boccella has put the exhibit to good use and has created a curriculum for young students interested in design. The students will be able to see the costumes and learn about the designer. I think this is fantastic. You can see the costumes as well for just a $5 donation. The donation is to support educational programming. Take your children, go on a date and enjoy Downtown Pittsburgh. For all of you who have not kept up with what is going on at the August Wilson Center here is a schedule of upcoming events. By the time you read this you will have missed recording artist “Joe” yes that sexy fine chocolate drop was there on Sept. 23, and it was a sold out event. Here is a list for the “there is nothing to do in Pittsburgh” crowd. Esperanza Spalding will be there on Oct. 7, Ricky Smiley will be there on Oct. 8, Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Co. is scheduled for Oct. 21, Lalah Hathaway will be there on Nov. 9 and in 2017 the Dance Theatre of Harlem will be there for about a week in March. The theater space is wonderful and every seat is a good seat. This is just the schedule for the August Wilson Center I’m sure there will a lot of things happening all around the city. Read your emails, watch Facebook and read the New Pittsburgh Courier for what is happening around you. Thanks to Tony Fountain for the correction on my information on the “High Roller” in Vegas. I stated that each pod holds six people, it actually holds 40. Big difference huh? Go on line and take a look at it. I know there are a lot of Las Vegas travelers out there. (Email the columnist at debbienorrell@aol.com)
BEHIND THE GREEN CURTAIN—Adrianne YOU HAD TO BE SEEN IN GREEN— Holmes (WIZ Gala event planner) and Blayre ON THE YELLOW Jacqueline Hale ROAD—Terri White Holmes (WIZ Gala director of marketing)
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BRICK ON THE YELLOW BRICK ROAD—Evan Frazier and Demeatria Boccella
movie screening. Guests then eased on down the road for cocktails and hors d’oeuvres and to witness the work of Paul Tazewell. The evening ended with an Emerald City dance party. The Wiz Live! Premiered live on NBC on Dec. 3, 2015 with Akron, Ohio native Paul Tazewell as the costume designer. Tazewell has been designing costumes
“We aren’t in Kansas anymore!” On Sept. 17 at the August Wilson Center for African American Culture guests knew they were not in Kansas and wondered if they were still in Pittsburgh. Fashion Africana along with presenting sponsor Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield presented “Costumes of the Wiz Live! The work of Paul Tazewell.” On this m a g i c a l o p e n i n g gala evening guests walked the yellow brick road and were welMEET PAUL TAZEWELL—Designer of The Wiz Live costumes comed to Emerald City by a trio of handsome greeters. It was strongly suggested that guests should be seen in green and they complied from lipstick to stilettos. Visitors to Oz enjoyed a VIP recep- STRAIGHT FROM BROADWAY—Brynn Williams tion, a show stopping performance by for theater, dance, opera and film for over Broadway’s Brynn Wil- 20 years. His Broadway credits include liams performances by “Hamilton,” “Dr. Zhivago,” “Jesus Christ Kingdom People with mu- Superstar,” “The Color Purple” and “Bring sic director Dwayne Fulton in Da Noise, Bring in Da Funk.” The Cosand a performance by the tumes of the Wiz Live! Exhibit will continAlumni Theater Company. ue through Nov. 30 and is open to the pubThe in theater performance lic at AWC with a $5 donation. Purchase FASHION AFRICANA CO-FOUNDER—Darnell L. McLaurin concluded with The Wiz tickets at www.wizliveexhibit.com
WELCOME TO OZ !—Demeatria Boccella (Fashion Africana co-founder) with Oz greeters: David McIntosh, Ike Black and Zim Zon Lelo SUPPORTERS—Harlyn and Kiya Tomlin
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Praise & Worship
Church Circuit September to Remember Revival
ST. BENEDICT THE MOOR CATHOLIC CHURCH Crawford & Centre Ave. Pgh., PA 15219 412-281-3141
Unity Baptist Church will host its revival every Wednesday in September at 7:30 p.m. Sept 28—Rev. Dr. Jerry Carter, Calvary Baptist Church, Morristown, NJ. Rev. Dr. Richard W. Wingfield, Host Pastor. For more information call 412-646-1787.
Mass Sunday 9:00 A.M. & 12:00 P.M. Sunday (Gospel Choir Mass) 12:00 P.M. www.stbtmchurch.org
METROPOLITAN BAPTIST CHURCH
Honoring Rev. Perrin
22 Sampsonia Street, Northside Pittsburgh, PA 15212 412-231-2554 FAX 412-231-6395 Rev. Lacy F. Richardson, Ph.D., Pastor Church School.................................9:30 A.M. Worship Service.................8:00 & 10:45 A.M. Bible Study/ Prayer Wednesday...................6:30/7:30 P.M. www.metropolitanbaptistchurch.com metropolitanbaptist2224@gmail.com
SIXTH MOUNT ZION BAPTIST CHURCH 6556 Shetland Ave., Pittsburgh, PA 15206 (412) 441-7839 Church School Worship Service Wednesday Night Bible Study
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East Liberty Presbyterian Church Rev. Dr. Randy Bush, Senior Pastor 412-441-3800 116 S. Highland Ave., Pittsburgh, PA 15206
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Journey Worship........8:45 a.m. Sanctuary Worship........11 a.m.
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BAPTIST TEMPLE CHURCH CELEBRATES—On Saturday Sept. 10 Baptist Temple Church celebrated a Prayer Brunch at the Doubletree Hotel at the Monroeville Convention Center. Rev. Dr. Vernard Hinton delivered a celebratory message. A slideshow chronicling the people and pastors of the Church over 95 years was also presented. A highlight of the evening was the presentation to the Church of three Teenie Harris images taken of the Church. In the photo above from left: Rev. Dr. Vernard E. Hinton, one of the former pastors of the church who is now Senior Site Pastor of The Mount, North Carolina, Rev. Rodney Adam Lyde, pastor of Baptist Temple Church; Rev. Jacqueline Lyde, First Lady and Associate Minister of Baptist Temple Church; Dominique Luster, Teenie Harris Archivist of the Carnegie Museum of Art and Charlene Foggie Barnett, Archive Specialist of the Carnegie Museum of Art.
COGIC, U.S. Fund for UNICEF launch initiative as part of ongoing partnership (Black PR Wire) New York—The Church of God in Christ and the U.S. Fund for UNICEF have developed and produced two new Direct Response TV spots with both Bishop P.A. Brooks and his daughter, Evangelist Faithe Brooks. Bishop Brooks is the First Assistant Presiding Bishop of COGIC and Evangelist Faithe Brooks is a noted Evangelist who has performed as singer and lecturer around the world in regard to the teachings of Christianity. The new DRTV ads will air every Sunday on the Word Network at 3 p.m. through to at least the end of the year. The DRTV campaign is part of an ongoing partnership between the U.S. Fund for UNICEF and COGIC, which aims to engage faithbased communities to support UNICEF’s lifesaving work on behalf of the world’s most vulnerable children. In 2015 the joint campaign, I AM #STOPPINGEBOLA raised $100,000 in support of UNICEF’s work to halt the spread of Ebola in Liberia. “We are thrilled to launch this new production endeavor with COGIC, who have proven to be a great partner over the years,” said Caryl M. Stern, president and CEO of the U.S. Fund for UNICEF. “COGIC has stepped up every time we have reached out to them, providing support for UNICEF’s water and sanitation, nutrition, health, education, and protection programs for children around the world.” “We are more than enthused to have partnered with the U.S. Fund for UNICEF to support UNICEF programs on the frontlines to combat many
health and social related issues in the heart of the most vulnerable communities around the globe. Although the Black church has been working in places like Africa since the early 1900’s, having the relationship with UNICEF only enhances our distinctive ability to expand our missions to an unparalleled level of expertise,” states Bishop Brooks, First Assistant Presiding Bishop of COGIC. “We encourage everyone to watch our new program on every Sunday on the Word Networkat 3 p.m.to see the new DRTV spots that both my daughter and I are very thrilled to participate in and support.” The DRTV spots were shot on location in Detroit at Bishop Brooks’ home based church. The Bishop is a member of a FaithBased Leadership Consor-
tium, which was formed in 2014 to assist the U.S. Fund for UNICEF in spreading its brand presence and mission to a more diverse & inclusive audience around the U.S. Through this unique partnership with the Consortium, The U.S. Fund for UNICEF has not only raised over $100,000, but has garnered a greater respect for UNICEF’s mission with the ever growing minority population. “We are honored that Bishop Brooks and his daughter Faithe are helping the U.S. Fund for UNICEF reach new audiences in the African-American community that includes not only faith-based organizations, but other key membership groups and associations,” said Edward G. Lloyd, Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer of the U.S.
Fund for UNICEF. “We hope that through this collaboration we can connect members of the African-American community with UNICEF’s work on behalf of the world’s most vulnerable children.” Members of the FaithBased Leadership Consortium include Dr. Calvin Butts, the Pastor of the Abyssinian Baptist Church in the City of New York and the President of the State University of New York College at Old Westbury; Dr. Williams B. Moore Chairman, Chair of the Foreign Relations Committee, National Baptist Convention, USA; Dr. James C Perkins, 20th President of the Progressive National Baptist Convention, Inc.; and Bishop P.A. Brooks, First Assistant Presiding Bishop on the presidium of the Church Of God In Christ, Inc.
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111th Church Anniversary
OCT. 2—The members of Second Baptist Church, 108 W. 12th Ave., Homestead, invites all to worship and celebrate the 111th Church Anniversary, Sunday, 10:30 a.m. regular service and 3:30 p.m. with the Family and Friends’ Choir of Second Baptist Church in concert, Min. John Burwell, Director. Church contact: 412-461-8235.
Installation Service
OCT. 2—Word Missionary Baptist Church, 134 8th Street, McKeesport will install Founder Rev. Henry M. Billingsley on Sunday, October 2, with guest Preacher Rev. Willis M. Hickerson, of Charlotte, N.C., delivering the 11 a.m. message and Rev. A. Charles Ligon, pastor of New Jerusalem Missionary Baptist Church, Cleveland, delivering the 3 p.m. message. Also there will be pre-installation services at 7 p.m. each night beginning on Wednesday, Sept. 28 with Rev. Archie Perrin and choir, Macedonia Baptist Church, Duquesne, Pa; Thursday, September 29 with Rev. George A. Williams and choir, First Baptist Church of West Mifflin, Pa; and Friday, Sept. 30, Rev. Dr. Melvin G. Rippy and choir, Macedonia Missionary Baptist Church, Wheeling. W.Va. For additional information please contact the church at 412-672-0907.
150 Years of Blessings
ON THE SET—A representative from the Church of God In Christ and UNICEF
McAuley Ministries Awards $1,991,337 in grants PITTSBURGH—McAuley Ministries, Pittsburgh Mercy’s grant-making foundation, has awarded 33 grants totaling $1,991,387 this year to 29 Pittsburgh-area nonprofit organizations to expand outreach initiatives to vulnerable populations. The grants support workforce development and summer youth employment, health and wellness, community and economic development, education, and capacity-building initiatives in Pittsburgh’s Hill District, Uptown, and West Oakland communities, as well as ministries that serve in the tradition of the Sisters of Mercy in Pittsburgh. Since 2008, McAuley Ministries has awarded 499 grants totaling more than $20,428,000 million to local nonprofit organizations. The grant-making foundation awards approximately $3 million in grants annually.
O C T. 1 — M a c e d o nia Baptist Church, Duquesne, will be honoring or First Lady, Rev. Carolyn Perrin. She is one of many honorees at this event which will be held at the Georgetown Inn in Pleasand Hills. The program will start at 4 p.m. and last until 7 p.m. Tickets are $40. Call 412-466-4722.
Grouped by category, the recipients of the outreach grant awards are: Affordable Housing Action Housing: $37,000 Bethlehem Haven: $100,000 Rebuilding Together Pittsburgh: $200,000 Workforce Development Acculturation for Justice, Access and Peace Outreach (AJAPO): $60,000, Neighborhood Learning Alliance: $30,000 Three Rivers Workforce Investment Board: $50,000 Health and Wellness Acculturation for Justice, Access & Peace (AJAPO): $5,000 Albert Schweitzer Fellowship: $20,000 Carlow University: $105,000, Grow Pittsburgh: $40,000 Jewish Healthcare Foundation: $30,000 Pittsburgh Mercy: $200,000, Pittsburgh Mercy: $50,000 Venture Outdoors:
$15,000 to provide 90 children enrolled in the Center that C.A.R.E.S. summer camp with outdoor recreational activities such as hiking, biking, kayaking, geocaching, and fishing. Community and Economic Development NeighborWorks of Western PA: $50,. Northside Industrial Development Company: $25,000 Small Seeds Development: $37,500 Uptown Partners of Pittsburgh: $13,833 Education ACH Clear Pathways: $20,000 Macedonia Family and Community Enrichment Center (FACE): $50,000 for implementation of Girls Circle, an evidence-based, gender-relevant program for girls ages 9-18 who attend University Preparatory School at Pittsburgh Milliones 6-12. The model is designed to increase positive connections, personal
and collective strengths, and competence in girls. Pittsburgh Association for the Education of Young Children: $48,000 Pittsburgh Public Schools: $50,000 Capacity-Building Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Pittsburgh: $35,000 Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Pittsburgh: $195,000 Center that C.A.R.E.S.: $35,000. Hill House Association: $100,000 Mercy Volunteer Corps: $49,254 Program to Aid Citizen Enterprise: $9,000 Robert Morris University: Shepherd’s Heart Fellowship: $111,800. Shepherd’s Heart Fellowship: $150,000, United Methodist Foundation of West Virginia: $5,000 Urban Innovation21: $50,000
OCT. 2—Shadyside Presbyterian Church celebrates its 150th anniversary in a worship service on World Communion Sunday, October 2, at 10:45 a.m. Founded in 1866, Shadyside Presbyterian Church carries on a traditional ministry of worship in the Presbyterian/Reformed tradition. While the church’s interior life and worship have been characterized by an uncompromising commitment to excellence in preaching and music, it is the congregation’s demonstrable concern for outreach beyond its walls that has distinguished its service over many years, both locally and globally.
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OCT. 6, 7, 8—Macedonia Baptist Church, 17 Cochran St., Duquesne will host a Revival at 8 p. m. Rev. Dr. Willie Thompson will be the guest speaker. He will speak from 2 Chronicles 7:14. “Which are called by my name shall humble themselves and pray, and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways...”
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Wonderful Weeknight Dining Make any day taste like Sunday (Family Features) With school, work and evening activities all spiraling in different directions, most families find that some things have to give. Make sure quality time around the dinner table isn’t one of them with these savvy solutions that can help make weekday meals a cinch. One-dish wonders Most busy families are well-versed in the benefits of slow cooker meals, but when you haven’t planned that far ahead there are other options, such as your oven’s broiler, that allow you to capture the convenience of single-dish meals. A cookie sheet filled with your favorite protein, veggies and a sprinkle of seasoning will broil in minutes. Just remember to cut your protein into small pieces that will cook through quickly and line your sheet with foil for easier cleanup. Another quick-fix idea: empty the odds and ends from the pantry and veggie drawer to make a stir-fry in minutes. Go for the gold When it comes to mealtime, Sunday dinner is the gold standard. It’s the one day of the week when you’re most likely to go “all out” and prepare a great-tasting meal. But you can achieve similar meals during the week using delicious, time-saving sides such as packaged Idahoan Signature Russets mashed potatoes, which can be made in just 5 minutes. The smooth flavor of Idahoan Signature Russets - like original homemade mashed potatoes with just a hint of butter and cream - makes any day taste like Sunday. Quick-prep proteins Every family has its favorite go-to meals that stand the test of time. Build your repertoire with a few recipes centered on proteins that take next to no time to prepare. Eggs don’t have to be restricted to the breakfast table, especially in preparations like a frittata or quiche. Or rely on seafood, which can be seared to perfection in minutes. A mild white fish is an ideal foundation for creating diverse, rich flavors, such as this Seared Halibut with Lemon Butter Sauce. For more tips to increase family time and get quick meals on the weeknight dinner table, visit idahoan.com.
Seared Halibut with Lemon Butter Sauce Serves: 4 Lemon Butter Sauce 1/2 cup white wine 1/4 cup fresh lemon juice 8 tablespoons whipping cream 3/4 teaspoon fresh garlic, chopped Turmeric, to taste Salt, to taste White pepper, to taste 8 tablespoons unsalted butter, diced Halibut 4 teaspoons olive oil 4 halibut filets (6-8 ounces each) Salt Pepper Lemon zest Herbs Vegetables 2 tablespoons olive oil 2 small zucchini, cut into 1/4-inch strips 2 small yellow squash, cut into 1/4-inch strips 2 small red peppers, washed, seeded and sliced into strips Potatoes 2 cups Idahoan Signature Russets Mashed Potatoes (from 16.23-ounce package) For lemon butter sauce, add white wine, lemon juice, cream, garlic, turmeric, salt and pepper to saute pan. Heat on high heat and reduce to half its original volume. While lemon sauce is reducing, prepare fish and vegetables. Once reduced, remove from heat and swirl in diced butter. For halibut, heat non-stick skillet on medium-high heat with olive oil. Season halibut with salt and pepper. Sear until deep golden brown, approximately 5 minutes each side. Remove from heat and cover with foil. For vegetables, add olive oil to skillet over medium-high heat. Saute zucchini, squash and pepper until crisp-tender, about 2-3 minutes. Keep warm. For potatoes, prepare mashed potatoes following package instructions. To serve, plate mashed potatoes, vegetables and halibut. Drizzle halibut with lemon butter sauce and garnish with lemon zest and fresh herbs. Note: Haddock or striped bass can be substituted for halibut.
Hoisin Roasted Pork with Steamed Greens Serves: 4 2 tablespoons hoisin sauce 2 tablespoons honey 1 tablespoon soy sauce 1 pork tenderloin filet (16 ounces) 8 ounces fresh sugar snap peas 8 ounces green beans 2 cups Idahoan Signature Russets Mashed Potatoes (from 16.23-ounce package) Heat oven to 350 F. In bowl, combine hoisin, honey and soy. In non-metallic bowl, pour marinade over pork and set aside for 15 minutes. Heat medium nonstick frying pan over medium heat. Add marinated pork and cook each side 1-2 minutes. Transfer pork to baking tray and cook 15 minutes, or until cooked to desired doneness. Steam fresh sugar snap peas and green beans together. Set aside. P r e p a r e mashed potatoes following package instructions. To serve, plate mashed potatoes, sliced pork and steamed vegetables. Spoon pan juices over pork and enjoy.
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‘Crossing the Thinnest Line’
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by Terri Schlichenmeyer For New Pittsburgh Courier
Your business is doing well. It could do better. Just like every other business in America, you have good weeks and bad. Sales go up and they flatten. You have financial feast-or-famine and you’d like more of the former than the latter. Author Lauren Leader-Chivée says she knows how you can achieve that and in “Crossing the Thinnest Line,” she explains. Open the door to your office and look around. What does your staff look like? Many managers, as Leader-Chivée learned at a conference, tend to surround themselves with people who look like them. That might feel most comfortable, she indicates, but to do so is to miss out. While some may find it awkward to actively, purposefully seek diversity, Leader-Chivée says it’s important to remember that most of us have ancestors
who were outsiders once. It’s also rare in today’s world for anyone to live in a bubble: you probably already know, are related to, or come in regular contact with someone who is different than you, and you think nothing of it—which is to say that while humans generally resist change, you may already have “acquired diversity.” Many folks find acquired diversity through family relationships and personal discoveries. Others simply jump in and get to know people who don’t look like them. Insisting on diversity in the workplace not only “sparks creativity,” but it’s also forward-thinking: within the next 25-to-30 years, the U.S. will “become a majority-minority.” Diversity makes it easier to tap into new markets with impressive buying power, it allows your company to gain a foothold on other continents, and it will help to avoid the embarrassment of miscommunication. By utilizing new experiences from divergent people, you and your employees will benefit from a fresh pointof-view, taking “full advantage of… talents, insights, and creative energies” and a much larger scope of knowledge. Without diversity, says Leader-Chivée, “we’ll suffer as a nation…” “It’s a mistake we can’t afford to make.” I cannot deny that what’s inside “Crossing the Thinnest Line” could be helpful. It’s filled with statistics, surprising solutions, and illustrative stories that show what world leaders and Big Business are doing. But that richness of info can also be a downfall: there’s just too much to take in here. I really found myself wishing that author Leader-Chivée had made this into two books, or even three; that might have eased the overwhelmed feeling. (“Crossing the Thinnest Line” by Lauren Leader-Chivée, c.2016, Center Street, $27/$35 Canada, 336 pages.)
Police Brutality Nationwide (BlackNews. com)—Although police brutality can happen to any one, government statistics confirm that police brutality in the United States is more likely to happen to Black individuals—especially men. According to MappingPoliceViolence.org, in 2015 alone, an estimated 336 Black people were killed by police, and an estimated 102 of these people were unarmed. In response to these devastating statistics, UrbanE-
books.com has announced the release of their newest publication, entitled “Know Your Rights! Everything to Know About Police Brutality (What to Do If You’re Stopped,” What’s Legal, What’s Illegal, and How Not to Get Killed!). This 65page guide is the first of it’s kind, designed to specifically help African American men and teens to better understand their legal rights when it comes to dealing with the police.
Lil Wayne
NEW YORK, N.Y.—Four time GRAMMY award-winning hip hop icon, LIL WAYNE, announces the release of “Lil Wayne: Sqvad Up,” a mobile skateboarding game app that now available for download starting on across Apple and Android platforms. Lil Wayne: Sqvad Up, developed by mobile media and technology company, UTILITY, is a new, action packed game that celebrates the Hip Hop icon’s love for
the thrill of skateboarding. Designed to be simple, fun and addictive for all audiences, the throwback arcade-style game offers users a chance to join Lil Wayne on an authentic tour of his hometown, New Orleans. The game soundtrack was curated by Lil Wayne himself and produced by Hollygrove-based producer Nesby Phips. (For more information, you may follow Lil Wayne: Sqvad Up on Instagram: @sqvadupgame.)
Yuna
NEW YORK, N.Y.—Malaysian singer-songwriter, Yuna, released her highly anticipated third studio album, Chapters, via Verve records. Yuna’s newest release includes features from Usher, Jhene Aiko and DJ Premiere. “Chapters” includes Yuna’s mesmerizing hit single “Crush” featuring Usher, which is quickly climbing the rhythmic radio charts around the globe. Watch the duo sing about love in the official video for “Crush” The album further showcases the songstresses contemporary pop, acoustic folk and soulful R&B sounds, which have won her comparisons with the likes of Feist, Adele and Norah Jones. Chapters follows Yuna’s 2013 album, Nocturnal.
4EY The Future
Emerging R&B/pop trio 4EY The Future, release its infectious and smooth brand new single “No Time To Waste.” Comprised of three powerhouse artists— Kenny Iko, Mechie So Crazy, and Leo Amari—4EY The Future focuses on bringing back good music by giving listeners luscious melodies and feel good lyrics. The high energy trio combines genuine talent, sharp
choreography and fluid symmetry to give the audience a full musical experience. 4EY proves that in a short period of time, hard work, dedication and faith can turn passionate dreams into a beautiful reality. Though they have achieved great success already they are anything but complacent and their determination continues to open doors for infinite possibilities
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DALLAS, Tex.—Four-time GRAMMY Award-winning singer, songwriter and producer Erykah Badu has released the music video for “Mayisha (So Long).” The song is collaboration with GRAMMY Award-winning jazz pianist, producer and long-time friend Robert Glasper. The song can be found on the Glasper-spearheaded Miles Davis reimaging project “Everything’s Beautiful,” which recently debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard Jazz Album chart. Upon the song’s release earlier, the reimaging of “Mayisha (So Long)” has received attention and acclaim unanimously across the board, from Rolling Stone to Pitchfork, The FADER, the BBC, Stereogum and everywhere in between. The unique take on the classic Miles Davis song features an electronic bossa nova with all-new, original lyrics by Badu herself. With creative concept, storyline and direction by Badu herself, the video is everything one has come to expect from the auteur—poetic, tongue-in-cheek, imaginative and stylish. In keeping with the song’s deceptively humorous lyrics, the clip is a somewhat satirical, wink of the eye at the musical guest performances from classic variety shows of the late ‘50s and early ‘60s. The star of the short is a neurotic, beatnik chanteuse named Sarah Bellam—one of Badu’s many personas–with Glasper as her tormented keyboard player and lover. The video also features a cameo by acclaimed harmonica player Frédéric Yonnet as the trumpet player (performing Miles Davis’ solo), and the track’s musicians Rashad “Ringo” Smith and Braylon Lacy.
(BlackNews.com)—Baltimore-based R&B artist and family trio, KSTONE, released their long awaited CD single, “Tic Toc”, on their independent label, Unome Music, and is now available for digital distribution on iTunes, Google Play and Spotify. The long awaited single release launches a vision and dream started about 20 years ago. Despite a few minor setbacks, the family trio has kept the dream alive by working with Atlanta based producer,
George Short, to arrange a unique old school R&B sound that makes any lover of the pop music genre, appreciate its music once again. The tables have indeed turned for KSTONE as they’ve just released their brand new debut single, “Tic Toc” along with two bonus tracks, “Time after Time” and “Bring it 2 Me”, all which bring back the distinct sounds of harmony and creativity with original lyrics for the R&B genre. (For more details, visit www. kstone4u.com)
Charles Wright LOS ANGELES, Calif.—Borrowed by Dr. Dre, Madonna and Diplo; sampled looped by N.W.A. and themed by the NBA, Charles Wright’s “Express Yourself” has touched the lives of generations since 1970; being deemed the most licensed song. Yes, you’ve heard it on ESPN, Burger King commercials, and numerous movies, the song has taken on its’ own personality to the point it over shadows the creator’s name Charles Wright. In fact, when N.W.A. introduced the song to the hip-hop generation, youth could not believe it was originated by Wright. Wright recalls, “A young man next door came home from work one day blasting “Express Yourself” and I was like, that’s my song. The boy said no, that’s N.W.A!” Not new to Wright, he discovered West Coast’s hottest rap group failed to give him
songwriting credit. After calling Ice Cube, Cube apologized and gave him his royalities. Today, Charles Wright continues making history and setting the stories right! With the first of several memoirs to come, Charles Wright has released “Up From Where We’ve Come.” While many would think Wright tells the historical facts about his experience in the music industry and the relationships he has and had with various music greats, it makes more sense to start from the beginning and to reveal his life story growing up outside Clarksdale, Mississippi when Jim Crow reigned. Wright’s recall of his relationships with his family, sharecropping, commerce, and racism is an honest, personal account of his life and what he endured as well as thousands of other African-Americans.
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‘I Love The 90s’ concert spotlights Salt N Pepa
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The “I Love The 90s” concert featuring Vanilla Ice and Salt N Pepa with DJ Spinderella took place Saturday, Sept. 24, at the Peterson Event Center.
“I really enjoyed the concert. I wasn’t sure how it would go because it’s been years since I seen Salt N Pepa perform live. But I had fun. They killed it,” said event attendee Ronneisha Roy. The concert began at
8 p.m. with a few select opening acts, and old school music delivered by the DJ. The crowd rocked out to all sorts of music from the 1990’s such as; Biggie Smalls, Tupac, OPP, The Chronic, Jay Z, Snoop Dog,
Missy Elliot, Conspiracy, and more. “I couldn’t wait to see my girls perform their hit song ‘Push It’ I love that song! My and my friends performed to that song back in the day in our high school talent show.
I had a ball, and Salt N Pepa still look great,” said event attendee Chay’onna Jones. Hundreds filled the venue at the Peterson Event Center in Oakland. The group Salt N Pepa was formed in 1985, Cheryl James (Salt), Sandra Denton (Pepa), and Deidra Roper (DJ Spinderella). Robert Van Winkle, better known as Vanilla Ice graced the stage and performed his hit songs “Hooked,” “Play That Funky Music,” “Ice Ice Baby,” and more. “Vanilla Ice is still a crowd pleaser. Great show,” Matthew Jamison said.
“This new music in 2016 has nothing on the jams of the 90’s. This concert is proof that 90’s was the best time for music. I was on my feet the entire time. Me and my friends couldn’t sit down. No complaints, I had a great time,” Tami Finnigan concert attendee said. Salt N Pepa recently celebrated their 30th anniversary. Salt, Cheryl James said, “We want to thank our fans from the bottom of hearts. We love you for loving us. God Bless you guys, and keep the faith and keep striving for what you believe in.”
‘American Masters’ spotlights Ella Fitzgerald Episode seven of the American Masters Podcast features journalist Nina Bernstein and jazz legend Ella Fitzgerald's longtime friend June Norton, who discuss one of the singer's most difficult periods, with American MastersElla Fitzgerald: Something to Live For (1999) filmmaker Charlotte Zwerin: http://www.pbs.org/ wnet/americanmasters/digital-archive/ women-women-nina-bernstein-june-norton-ella-fitzgerald/ Before Ella Fitzgerald became the First Lady of Song and earned 13 Grammy Awards, she spent much of her teenage years as an orphan, finding odd jobs to get by and, at times, living on the street. Enduring harsh conditions at an abusive
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reformatory program in Hudson, New York, Fitzgerald faced prejudiced policies common in the institutional racism of the 1930s child welfare system. She battled through this adversity to achieve a career driven by sheer determination and talent. Hosted by series executive producer Michael Kantor, new episodes of the American Masters Podcast are available biweekly on the In Their Own Words: The American Masters Digital Archive website, iTunes, Soundcloud and Stitcher. Season one, "Women on Women," features long-form interviews with influential women discussing women cultural icons.
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Rev. Sharpton hosts star-studded Triumph Awards on TV One (ATLANTA)—On Sunday, Rev. Al Sharpton and the National Action Network along with TV One presented the 2016 Triumph Awards at the Tabernacle Concert Hall in Atlanta. Hosted by actress and philanthropist Tichina Arnold, the Triumph Awards recognizes distinguished individuals and corporations in civil rights, the arts, entertainment, education, business and sports. The show was taped in front of a live audience and will air Sunday, Oct. 2 at 7 p.m. and 9 p.m. on TV One. Attorney Benjamin Crump was presented the “Chairman’s Award for Historic and Transformative Service” by Clifton Powell “Saints and Sinners; Larenz Tate “House of Lies” presented the “Triumphant Man of the Year” award to Jermaine Dupri; The “Triumphant Woman of the Year” went to FedEx executive Gina F. Adams, who was introduced by legendary
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singer Dionne Warwick; actor and recording artist Derek “Fonzworth Bentley” Watkins was on hand to present the “President’s Award for Service and Humanitarian Efforts” to Sean “Diddy” Combs (who was not in attendance); Tim Murphy of Mastercard accepted the honor of “Corporate Partner of the Year Award;” and the final award
of the evening was the “Activism in the Arts Award” presented to Spike Lee by orthopedic surgeon Dr. Vietta Johnson, President of Spelman College Dr. Mary Schmidt Campbell and actress Teyonah Parris. Performers included gospel artist Jekalyn Carr, V. Bozeman, Nick Cannon, BJ the Chicago Kid, the James Brown Academy of Music Pupils, Joe, Eric Benet, Juan and Deborah Joy Winans, and Fantasia. Tichina Arnold, JB Smoove, Carl Payne, Erica Ash and Teyonah Parris also joined forces to perform a “Spike Lee Joint Medley,” a hilarious musical tribute. Additional appearances by Marc Lamont Hill, Dondre Whitfield, Kandi Burruss, Terri J. Vaughn, Pooch Hall, Denise Boutte, Ebony Steele, Angel McCoughtry; the “Mothers of the Movement;” Gwen Carr (mother of Eric Garner), Lesley McSpadden (mother of Mike Brown) and Sybrina Fulton (mother of Trayvon Martin); and Georgia State House Representative Erica Thomas. The 2016 Triumph Awards are produced by Bart Phillips of Sunseeker Entertainment. Eric Tomosunas and Keith Neal serve as Executive Producer for Swirl Films. Robyn Green Arrington is Executive in Charge of Production. Lamar Chase serves as Producer and D’Angela Proctor is Head of Original Programing and Production for TV One.
(For more information about The Triumph Awards visit the network’s companion website at www.tvone.tv. TV One viewers can also join the conversation by connecting via social media on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook (@tvonetv) using the hashtag #TriumphAwards and catch clips and promos on TV One’sYouTube Channel.)
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Leah Baker Fowler comes from a linage of entrepreneurs. Her great grandfather once owned a business in the Hill District and a great aunt and uncle owned the former Hicks Shop ‘n Save that was located in the Hill Plaza. Currently her grandmother LaVerne Baker Hotep and mother Tia Baker, both entrepreneurs serve as role models and examples to the 12year-old who has operated Cupcakes Most Wanted since January 2014. Fowler, founder and president of the business considers herself a food “preneur” who loves baking. She is a seventh grader attending the Milton Hershey School in Hershey, Pa. Cupcakes Most Wanted provides cupcakes that are baked fresh for each customer from top quality ingredients. Flavors include: Carrot, Red velvet, Chocolate, Vanilla and Strawberry and her signature specialty is Sweet Potato. “From the inception of Cupcakes Most Wanted Leah has served a steady stream of customers,” says Baker the chief operating officer of the business. She describes the customer base as including individuals, businesses and non-profit organizations entailing the Girls Coalition of Southwest PA, G&S Counseling Services, Gwen’s Girls, Inc., the Children’s Museum and the Thelma Lovette YMCA. Baker says Leah’s recipe for success in her business includes entrepreneurship and philanthropy. “She has natural philanthropic leanings a desire to share her good fortune with others and wants to make a difference in the world.” As a result, they established the Leah Baker Fowler Fund with the POISE
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flavor and frosting. Judges for the Bake Off are Kate Dewey; President of the Forbes Fund, Jasiya Green; CEO of Jojo’s PersonaliTV, Chef Karbowski; noted chef and instructor, R. Daniel Lavelle; Pittsburgh City Councilman and Ricardo Williams; City of Pittsburgh Office of the Mayor. Other than Fowler event host is Emmai Alaquiva, CEO of Ya Momz House, Inc. Also during the event BMe Community, a main sponsor and sup-
Foundation that focuses on providing support to children fighting battles against cancer. The concept for the fund originated as a result of her Bakers’ triumphant battle with breast cancer. The young baker in conjunction with the BMe Community this weekend, Saturday, Oct. 1 is sponsoring the First Annual Youth Cupcake Bakeoff. It will take place between 10 a.m. and 3 p.m. at the Jeron X.
LEAH BAKER FOWLER (Photos by Diane I. Daniels) Grayson Center, 1852 Enoch St. in the Hill District. Proceeds from the registration and ticket sales will go to the Leah Fowler Fund. Contestants in the bakeoff are ages between 10 and fourteen, have a passion for baking and are interested in entrepreneurship. Winners will receive a $200 Visa Gift-card, an educational mentoring course on entrepreneurship, a kid friendly course in financial education and a first place trophy. Judges will base the winning entry on cupcakes baked from scratch, the cupcake presentation, the cupcake display, the cupcake
YOUNG FOODPRENEUR MAKES STRIDES—Twelve-year-old Leah Baker Fowler displays her cupcakes in preparation for the Oct. 1 Youth Cupcake Bakeoff.
Western Pennsylvania, the first African-American Democrat elected to the Wilkinsburg School Board, Wilkinsburg Democratic Committee and the Wilkinsburg Borough Council. Currently, he said he lends his time and energy to projects driven toward business and community development. Reciting his tagline, increasing your network…increases your net worth he said, “Classic Events provides a public relations and marketing platform for small businesses while giving entrepreneurs a platform.” The organization hosts a series of market-specific signature events that included the Black History Celebration, the Business/Political Networking Mixer, the Ladies Who Network event and the Youthpreneur event. His Second Annual Salute to Legal Excellence Dinner, a semi-formal gala will take place Oct. 22 at the Doubletree Hotel in Monroeville. Harry Johnson II who serves as the Community Manager for Pittsburgh heads the Pittsburgh chapter of the BMe Community. Johnson describes the group founded in 2011, as a national network of inspired Black men and thousands of other community-builders of all races and genders that connect to share, inspire, and empower communities across America. The group based in Miami has chapters in Pittsburgh, Akron, Baltimore, Detroit and Philadelphia. Other sponsors for the cupcake bakeoff are Urban Innovation21, The Forbes Fund, McAuley Ministries, Eat-N-Park, New Voices Pittsburgh, the Ujamaa Collective, Pittsburgh Mercy, CCAC, Up Prize and Walmart.
porter of the cupcake bakeoff will present The Honorable Ralph P. Watson of Classic Events with the Youth Entrepreneur Advocacy Award. “I’m excited about this whole event,” Watson said. “Classic Events is one of the first organizations to recognize Leah for her good work.” Watson known for his steadfastness and driven commitment to the community has been involved in the field of politics throughout Wilkinsburg and surrounding area since the age of 19. He identifies (For more information, call 412-853himself as the youngest elected official (African-American or White) in 7217 or visit http://bit.ly/pghbakeoff.)
Young mother of seven turns life around at McDonald’s by Stacy M. Brown For New Pittsburgh Courier
(NNPA)—Ten years ago, Cameo Faust, a single mother of seven was working at an Atlanta-area McDonald’s, struggling to make ends meet and highly motivated to make a better life for herself and her family. Now, she’s the general manager, who is responsible for the operation of the restaurant and in charge of helping to build a team of employees to help the business flourish. Faust gave birth to her first child when she was 14. Faust’s mother, Shirley Randolph, had given birth to her first child at the age of 12. “By the time I was 15, I had twins, plus the baby. At 17, I had four kids, and then I had five by the time I was 18 and, finally, by 26, I had seven,” she said, unapologetically, naming them in range from the oldest to the youngest—Jasmine, Markiesha, Marcus, DeMarcus, Sparticus, Sparkle and Joshua. Now, Faust, at 36 years-old, realizes that with each pregnancy, she was desperately trying to fill a void created by the loveless, tumultuous relationship that she had with her own mother. “My mother would always be fussing at me telling me not to wear a head rag or not to do this or to do that…[she was] always so mean and I didn’t want to listen to her. I’m having these kids to have someone to love because nobody ever loved me,” Faust said. Although she continued in a relationship with the father of her children, Faust knew that a life of struggle wasn’t ideal. At the time, Faust didn’t even have a high school diploma. Why can’t more of us see that economics is the key to our freedom and the answer to the problems we talk about all the time? This political year has and continues to bring this fact to light, but the Colin Kaepernick protest illuminates the issue of economics even more. Here is a guy who chose to exercise his right not to stand at the playing/singing of the National Anthem, and as a result folks have called him everything but a child of God. Folks who have burned the flag have not received the kind of treatment Kaepernick has gotten. Now, as other football players have joined in to do similar acts of protest, the real deal—economics—comes to the forefront. Sponsors are exercising their rights to revoke their endorsements of these athletes. In other words, they are taking away their money in an effort to punish these players, the same thing they always do when a player says or does something they don’t like or agree with. It has happened to Black and White players alike. Opinions abound on what the players should do now, and it’s amazing that some of us tell them to keep it up no matter how much money they lose, but we are unwilling to do the same thing at our jobs. Yes, they make a whole lot more money than most of us do, but it’s all relative. Knowing that economics runs everything in this country and the world for that matter, Black folks in general and Black ath-
The proverbial light bulb in her head switched on when the town’s water company turned off her water, Faust said. “I was dating my children’s father and one day the water got cut off and I asked him what were we going to do,” she said. “He looked at me, told me that he didn’t know what I was going to do, but that he was leaving.” Stunned, the unemployed Faust showed him the door. “I just got tired,” she said. “I told him that he could go.” Now, with five children, no money, no job, no high school diploma, and a paltry $367-a-month welfare check, Faust began pounding the pavement. “I kept walking up and down the street for about three days. There were a lot of fast food restaurants and I would walk up and down every day asking for a job,” she said. “I stopped in at McDonald’s near Riverdale Road and asked if I could apply for a job. [The supervisor] told me to come back the next day,” Faust said. “I explained that it took me an hour to walk here, but he said, ‘I should come back.’ I kept coming back and he’d tell me to come back again and again. I was tired, but finally I was hired as a crew person.” At first, the job only added to Faust’s problems. She had five children at home with the oldest just 10 years-old. “I had my oldest watch the other children even though I also had an infant and a toddler in the house,” Faust said. “I know it was dangerous, but I couldn’t allow my kids’ father to come back. I’d walk back and check on them when I SEE MOTHER C2
FROM CREW PERSON TO GM—Cameo Faust worked her way up from crew person to general manager at a McDonald’s franchise in the Atlanta-area. Faust also attends McDonald’s Hamburger University. (Cameo Faust)
Turnabout is fair play letes in particular must exercise another game there. That’s money talking; and basic right: Use Black folks better money for leverage James Clingman take notice and and punishment, start using our ecothe same way other nomic clout to get entities do. What do what we want. I mean by that? ReDo you remember member the inciCraig Hodges, who dents with Michael played for the Vick, Adrian PeterChicago Bulls? He son, Plaxico Burress, filed a Federal lawand Ray Rice? Sevsuit, against the eral NFL sponsors notified the league that NBA accusing the owners and operators of they would withdraw their support if the the NBA as co-conspirators in NFL did not address those issues by pun- ‘’blackballing’’ him from the league because ishing those athletes in some form or an- of his “outspoken political nature as an other. The league saw the dollar signs and African-American man.” acted accordingly. When the Bulls championship team went Remember the State of Indiana law that to the White House after an invitation from gay people said was discriminatory toward President George H.W. Bush, Hodges wore them? Corporations threatened to move a dashiki and handed the President a letter their firms out of the state if the law was that asked him to do more to end injustice not changed. Governor Mike Pence took toward the African-American community. care of that problem right away by chang- Sound familiar? ing the law. How about the latest issue in ‘’It’s well known through the league that North Carolina with the transgender bath- there may be repercussions if you speak out room thing? The NCAA is sanctioning the too strongly on some sensitive issues,’’ said State by pulling its games, in all sports, out Buck Williams, head of the players associaof North Carolina. tion at that time. “I don’t know if Hodges The NBA has also refused to the All-Star lost his job because of it, but it is a burden
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when you carry the militant label he has.” Ironically and unfairly, during that same period, stars like Dennis Rodman and Charles Barkley, both known for doing outrageous things, were tolerated and even celebrated. Craig Hodges stood on his beliefs as did Denver Nuggets star, Mahmoud Abdul-Rouf, formerly known as Chris Jackson, who was probably second only to Michael Jordan on the offensive end of the basketball court. Long before Kaepernick, Abdul-Rouf refused to stand for the Anthem, and when he did, he prayed. This outstanding NBA player converted to Islam and soon after his conversion his NBA career came to a screeching halt. Both Hodges and AbdulRouf were vilified and sanctioned by the NBA for having the courage to stay true to their social, religious, and ethical convictions. Unfortunately, they stood alone for the most part. Their teammates and even the great Elgin Baylor turned their backs on him. I call that cowardly. If just half of the Black players in the NBA and the NFL would do as the University of Missouri players did, refuse to play just two games back to back, they would change those leagues. Money rules. Of course, it takes sacrifice, but isn’t it worth it? Hodges and Abdul-Rouf did, and they lost a great deal for their willingness to take a stand. They stood alone; a critical mass of Black athletes, standing together can win.
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could and I made sure that they had three meals every day.” She said, adding that a neighbor did, from time to time, peak in on the children to ensure that all was well. “It was all about perseverance and I didn’t want to be on welfare anymore, so I did what I had to do,” Faust said. Faust worked hard and began to earn promotions at the restaurant. Ironically, she said that she was inspired by Randolph who had given her such a difficult time. “My mother pushed me to be better than her, that’s why she was so hard on me,” said Faust. “She loved me. She’s really my role model.” Faust is now enrolled in school and she’s taking courses at McDonald’s famed Hamburger University, recognized by the American Council on Education as the only academically accredited restaurant in the country. Through a company program, employees can transfer as many as 46 hours toward a bachelor’s degree, certificate program, or associate’s degree. Hamburger University first opened in 1961 and more than 330,000 students have taken courses there including franchise general managers like Faust whose courses include shift management, introduction to management and guest services. In a statement about the university, Rob Lauber, McDonald’s chief learning officer, said that an educated workforce has huge value for the business. “We estimate between 20 and 30 percent of our restaurant managers haven’t finished high school and Hamburger University focuses more on leadership development, business growth, and operations procedures, with a special emphasis on service, quality, and cleanliness to help prepare students for managerial positions in the restaurant industry,” said Lauber. John Hurt, the McDonald’s franchise owner who employs Faust, said that she has done a great job.“This is one area of being an owner that really gives you satisfaction,” said Hurt. “Knowing you’re helping others and this one particular person, who was looking for a way out and knowing that we could provide that opportunity is special. I am really thrilled to have Cameo with me.” Hurt said that Faust manages about 55 employees, managers report to her, and that he’s pleased with the progress that she’s made over the years. Benjamin F. Chavis Jr., the president and CEO of the National Newspaper Publishers Association, said that the NNPA salutes McDonald’s for offering career advancement opportunities for their employees. “The success story of Cameo Faust in Georgia serves as an inspiring national example that millions of young single mothers should view as proof that social challenges can be overcome,” said Chavis. “Cameo’s career journey personifies selfempowerment with grace and elegance.” Faust said that she aspires to become an entrepreneur and a motivational speaker. Three of Faust children have graduated high school and one of her daughters attends Clark University, a historically Black college in Atlanta. “I love McDonald’s and all that they’ve done for me,” said Faust. “I still want to let God take me higher.”
ATLANTA, Ga. (BlackNews.com)—PZI Jeans, the leader in denim for the hourglass figure, announced the debut of their latest 2016 Fall/Winter Collection. Having mastered its perfect fit designed for women with smaller waists and curvy hips, rear and thighs, PZI Jeans has been able to offer fashionable jeans for women with curves for over 10 years. President and Founder of PZI Jeans, Daniel Jason says, “Denim is an essential statement piece in our customer’s wardrobe. We strive to remain on the forefront of the denim industry by producing fashion styles the modern day curvy girl wants. Our customer knows exactly what she is looking for, and we know exactly what to deliver.” The Fall/Winter 2016 Collection features 12 iconic styles offering medium rise, medium to dark washes and a variety of leg openings including: skinny, straight, and boot cut. The PZI woman will be delighted with her “day to night,” “work to after hours”, with a hint of “flirty and fun” denim options. Following hot on the heels of the anticipated Spring/Summer 2016 Collection and favored by the likes of celebrities including Singer and Songwriter, Syleena Johnson, the comfort and flexibility level has risen a notch. Known for producing “Live in Denim” and “All Day Comfortable Fits,” PZI Jeans Fall/Winter Collection features mid-rise styles including the Mila Distressed Skinny, Avery Skinny, India Straight, Piper Straight, Zoey Boot, and Heather Black Boot. All styles will include the signature “P” logo on the left back pocket. PZI Jeans is a ground breaker, providing the denim solution for curvy women. Salena Smith, Online Customer Service says, “We have the best customers at PZI Jeans and pride ourselves as a lifestyle-changing brand that our customers can count on.”
THE ULTIMATE FITTING JEANS for hourglass figures releases Fall/Winter 2016 styles every curvy girl will love. The first release of styles from the Fall/Winter Collection will be available in September. PZI Jeans sizes range from sizes 418, with short, regular, long and extra long lengths. Retailing in price from $59-$89, PZI Jeans has positioned itself as a trend conscious brand for women with a streamlined waist, fuller hips and rear. PZI Jeans is available in specialty boutiques throughout the country and online. For more information about PZI Jeans, or to shop the FW16 Collection visit www.pzijeans.com. Follow the conversation on social media platforms using handle @pzijeans and hash tags #pzijeans,
Work Affects Your Benefits, at www.socialsecurity.gov/pubs. Question: I plan to retire soon. When will my monthly Social Security benefits paid? Answer: Social Security benefits are paid each month. Generally, new retirees receive their benefits on either the second, third, or fourth Wednesday of each month, depending on the day in the month the retiree was born. If you receive benefits as a spouse, your benefit payment date will be determined by your spouse’s birth date.
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SEPT. 30—Education and outreach staff from the Department of Banking and Securities will be meeting with senior citizens, employee and service provider groups, and members of the general public at Rep. Mike Turzai’s Senior Health Fair from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. at the Community College of Allegheny County North Campus, 8701 Perry Highway.
SEPT. 30—Goodwill of Southwestern Pennsylvania is accepting nominations for its 20th Anniversary Power of Works Awards to recognize efforts by employers and/or organizations that support workforce development for individuals with special needs or barriers to employment, and also to encourage all employers to emulate the actions and achievements of the winners. Winners will be honored at an awards ceremony and luncheon Nov. 17 at the Wyndham Grand Hotel in downtown Pittsburgh. Nomination forms are available at www.goodwillswpa.org, or from Ms. Lloyd at 412-632-1931.
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Here’s a chart showing how your monthly payment date is determined: Day of the Month You Were Born Social Security Benefits Paid On 1st–10th Second Wednesday 11th–20th Third Wednesday 21st–31st Fourth Wednesday For a calendar showing actual payment dates, see the Schedule of Social Security Benefit Payments at www.socialsecurity.gov/pubs/calend ar.htm.
We must close the payday loan debt trap once and for all (NNPA)—Between the unemployment rate report that was released in early September, and the Census report on income and poverty that was released on Sept. 13, President Obama and his team got great news about the economic status of the average worker. Incomes are up a whopping 5.2 percent between 2014 and 2015; it’s the first time incomes have increased since 2007. The poverty rate dropped 1.2 percentage points, to 13.5 percent, which translates into 3.5 million fewer people living in poverty. While the poverty rate is still higher than it was in 2007, this sharp decrease in the poverty rate is significant. Between the unemployment rate report, which shows an unemployment rate at 4.9 percent, and the income and poverty report, which shows a 2.4 million increase in the number of workers, the Obama economic team can rightly assert that economic recovery has trickled down. Still, poverty rates are way too high—almost one in four (24.1 percent) African American households lives in poverty. The number of African American children in poverty, though falling, remains too high (31.6 percent). And the number of people living in “extreme poverty” (with incomes at less than half the poverty line) is alarming — more than ten percent of African Americans (and 6 percent of the total population) live in extreme poverty. The persistence of poverty, even
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they earned reasonable pay. The working families agenda that some in Congress have embraced (which includes an increase in the minimum wage, among other provisions to assist those on the bottom) is a step in the right direction. The fight for $15, which would provide families at the bottom with incomes of about $31,000 a year, would also alleviate poverty and make it easier for people to make ends meet. It is important that those of us who care about economic justice make our voices heard before October 7. To stop the payday loan debt trap and encourage the CFBP to issue regulations that will protect those who are so easily exploited, comment online at FaithforFairLending.org, or send your comment to The Center for Responsible Lending, Faith and Credit Roundtable, 302 W. Main Street, Durham, NC 27701. Tackling the payday lending issue, however, is only a small step toward economic justice. Those who want economic justice must also be committed to electing those who will implement a working families agenda. The economic good news that was released early this month does not mean that we are out of the woods around poverty issues. (Julianne Malveaux is an author and economist. Her latest book “Are We Better Off? Race, Obama and Public Policy” is available via www.amazon.com for booking, wholesale inquiries or for more info visit www.juliannemalveaux.com.)
Disability Employment Summit Registration Deadline SEPT 30—The Governor’s Cabinet for People with Disabilities reminds everyone that this is the deadline to register for its annual Pennsylvania Disability Employment & Empowerment Summit. This year’s summit will take place Oct. 17 & 18 at the Bayfront Convention Center in Erie. Pa. Presentations will include information and trends on PA high-demand occupations, advancements in adaptive technology, no-cost on-boarding supports to insure employment success, and making state government responsive to the needs of businesses and workers with disabilities. Participant cost for the two-day event is $20. Exhibitor space is $200. Register online by Sept. 30 at http://www.padesummit2016.org.
Exit Planning Seminar SEPT. 30—Duquesne University’s Small Business Development Center will host a full-day Exit Planning For Your Business Seminar, from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., at Rockwell Hall, rm. 108, 600 Forbes Ave. Subjects covered include: Establishing a value for your business; pros and cons of ESOP, owner financing, succession, leverage buyouts; How to preserve value in the business, and How to make or break the transition deal. The cost for the seminar is $599. Breakfast and lunch are included. To register, call 412-3966233.
Black Economic Empowerment Summit OCT. 1—Stop The Violence-Pittsburgh presents Pittsburgh’s Black Economic Empowerment Summit, from 5 to 8:30 p.m. at the Kelly Strayhorn Theater, 5941 Penn Ave. in East Liberty. The summit will feature presentations by real estate guru Jay Morrison and “the People’s Scholar” Boyce Watkins. Areas of discussion will include: Building and Restoring Credit; Real Estate Investing, and Marketing Your Business for Success, among others. Tickets are $30, $40 for VIP. For more information, or for vendor opportunities, call 724205-9376, or online at StopTheViolencePittsburgh@yahoo.com
Inbound Marketing Seminar OCT. 7—Duquesne University’s Small Business Development Center will host “How to run an inbound marketing campaign,” 10 a.m. to 12 p.m., at Rockwell Hall, rm. 108, 600 Forbes Ave. The workshop present a framework for overcoming common marketing problems related to launching a first inbound marketing campaign, and will include tools and methods to measure the performance of an online marketing campaign. Cost is $25. To register or for more information, call 412-396-6233.
MyBusiness Training Sessions OCT. 8, 15, 22, & 29—The Chatham Women’s Business Center will present “MyBusiness Startup to Product Fall 2106, from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. at Braun Hall, Woodland Road, Pittsburgh, PA. 15232. This program includes intensive entrepreneurial training and is designed for women in the early stages of starting a productbased business. The deadline to apply is SEPT. 30. Cost is $300, $250 for members. Apply Online at https://www.survey monkey.com/r/startuproduct.
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On Sunday past, the Pittsburgh Steelers took the field to play a football game against the Philadelphia Eagles. Then the game began and the Steelers were clawed by the Eagles, 34-3! Everyone was saying that the Eagles were sort of overrated because although Philadelphia sported the same 2-0 record as Pittsburgh it was the general consensus that Philadelphia had beat bottom feeders Cleveland Browns and the Chicago Bears. And Pittsburgh had beat the Washington Redskins and Cincinnati Bengals. Both teams sported multi-million dollar veteran quarterbacks. Almost everyone was saying how much trouble the Eagles rookie starting QB Carson Wentz was going to have keeping up
Inside Conditions…Veteran rookies with the Pittsburgh Steelers jet fuel type passing game. Well for one day at least it appeared that at times the rookie QB may have been under center for the Steelers and the wily veteran could have exchanged places and could have been shipped without notice or fanfare to the “City of Brotherly Love.” The Steelers veteran QB Ben Roethlisberger completed 22 of 44 passes for 222 yards, no touchdowns and one pick. The so-called rookie QB Carson Wentz was 23/31 for 301 yards and 2 touchdowns and no interceptions. The veteran QB missed several open receivers who were wide open. If those passes had been completed they would have resulted in sustaining those drives. Some people are saying how bad the Steelers defense was. The least thing that this game
AUBREY BRUCE should have represented was a shootout. Yeah, the Steelers defense gave up 34 points this “pseudo-high powered offense” could only score 3 freakin’ points! 3 freakin’ points!
All the apprehension that NFL Defensive Coordinators might have been feeling about facing the team from the Steel City may have evaporated during that ill-fated afternoon in Philly.
What happened? Did the Steelers get comfortable digesting their own press? It looks like the Philadelphia defense might have been listening to some old Franklin Delano Roosevelt recordings but because they “feared nothing but fear itself because they definitely did not fear the Steelers much ballyhooed offense. The talking heads again are placing most of the blame squarely on the Steelers defense. The defense cannot complete passes to wide open receivers for the offense. The defense cannot block for the QB. The defense cannot convince the QB not to hold onto the ball for more than 3.5 seconds. Oh the defense had many flaws, but the soft coverages that the Steelers were in for the majority of the game at crucial times, even caused the eyes of a rookie QB to light up.
There were crucial injuries and many missed tackles by the Steelers defense but the offense had plenty of chances and squandered those opportunity’s with non-performances by the players and the coaches. All that hogwash that the Steelers are the “cream of the crop” nonsense had been put to rest. No one is going to lay down for the Steelers. The way it is looking, they may put the Steelers to sleep if they don’t look out. All you grown men in the NFL had better check yourselves and keep an eye on your T-bone steaks. The players that you may have thought were toddlers depending on breast milk and formula, now have a full set of teeth. (Aubrey Bruce can be reached at: abruce@newpittsburghcourier.com or 412-583-6741. Follow him on Twitter@ultrascribe.)
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FLAG FOOTBALL SUPPORT—The Pittsburgh Flag Football League for five weeks partnered with Pittsburgh Public Schools and the Summer Dreamers Academy to provide the NFL Flag football program to over 300 public school campers at three locations. With the rise of concussions in relation to tackle football, the league have made a concerted effort to offer a safe and healthy alternative during the summer months as well as leading into the fall. Above all the youth with parents and coaches that played in the Summer League. (Photos by J. L. Martello)
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:10—Lord, I wish I could explain what happened to your Pittsburgh Steelers on Sunday, but I got nothin’. I can tell you this, it happens! Not to New England and not to Arizona…but it happens. :09—A tip of the cap to your friend and mine Tim Stevens, the President of B-Pep and his team. They are single-handedly turning the tide of voting in this city. Everybody vote!!! :08—If you weren’t there on Sunday, you missed the greatest show on wheels. The great
Eat-N-Park Car Cruise and Show and book bag giveaway was a huge success. More than 60 cars showed up to support the E-N-P and the Children’s Hospital Child Care Program. :07—A separate shoutout goes to the Pittsburgh United Rays Corvette Club. Yes, they’re a social club on wheels, but the sport of car racing is at the essence of who they are. They race cars man…and fast. If you want in, go on-line and contact President Tia Harris McClung to get in the fast lane. :06—Oh, this just in. The Pittsburgh Pirates
CHAMPIONS—The Cardinals were one of the championship teams with coaches and Commissioner Chris Curd of Flag Football League.
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are done baby! :05—Reminder! Little League Football in and around our city is in full swing. Support the Little Leaguers and for goodness sake, please be the adult in the matter! :04—By now you know the world is mourning the passing of the legendary Arnold Palmer. More later, but for now, Arnie…“Play 9.” :03—It’s set now. The Third Annual Pittsburgh City League High School All-Sports Hall of Fame Inductions are coming up. Sunday, Nov. 6 at the John Heinz History Center. Tour the History Center for free 2-5 p.m.
Reception Hour/6 p.m. Awards Presentation. Honoring the best of the best in City League Sports! :02—Thank you Yasmine Shaheep and thank you Marsha Tongel. We could not have done it without you. You know! :01—The NFL is rolling, baseball is winding down, hockey just started and basketball is around the corner. Man I love this country. Let’s do it all!!! :00—I saw the “Magnificent Seven” and it was good. Not great, but good. I gave it 3 out of 5 basketballs. It’s hard to be better than the best.
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The Housing Authority of the City of Pittsburgh’s September Board of Commissioners’ scheduled meeting date of September 22, 2016 has been changed. The HACP Board of Commissioner’s Meeting will be held on THURSDAY September 29, 2016. THE MEETING WILL BE HELD AT 10:30 A.M. 200 Ross Street, 13th Floor Wherrett Room, Pittsburgh, PA 15219
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The Intergovernmental Cooperation Authority for Cities of the Second Class (the ICA) hereby gives notice that it will hold a public meeting on October 5, 2016 at 3:30 PM at the City-County Building, 5th Floor, Council Chambers, 414 Grant Street, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15219. The meeting is open to the public. LEGAL ADVERTISING Legal Notices
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Separate sealed Bids for the Work as listed hereinafter will be received at the Purchasing and Materials Management Department of Port Authority of Allegheny County (Authority) Heinz 57 Center, 345 Sixth Avenue, Third Floor, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 15222-2527 until 1:30 p.m. on October 26, 2016 and will be publicly opened and read immediately thereafter at the same address. Each Bidder shall be solely responsible for assuring that its Bid is both received and time stamped by a representative of the Purchasing and Materials Management Department at or before the advertised time for submission of Bids. Bids received or time stamped in the Purchasing and Materials Management Department after the advertised time for the submission of Bids shall be non-responsive and therefore ineligible for Award. MCKEESPORT TRANSIT CENTER BUILDING DEMOLITION AND SITE IMPROVEMENTS CONTRACT NO. MCK-16-07 The Work of this Project includes, but is not limited to, the furnishing of all labor, material, tools, equipment and incidentals necessary for the work associated with the demolition of the existing transportation structure and partial demolition of the train platform, utility shutoffs, utility relocations, placement of a precast comfort station, installation of a new communication antenna, placement of a temporary communications pole, relocation of existing communication hardware, full depth asphalt pavement, concrete curb replacement, concrete sidewalk replacement and new pavement markings as indicated on the plans at the McKeesport Transportation Center located on Lysle Boulevard in McKeesport Pennsylvania. The Project also includes a bid option for work at the Ross Park and Ride Lot located in Ross Township, Allegheny County. The bid option includes, but not limited to, the furnishing of all labor, materials, tools, equipment and incidentals necessary for the work associated with the demolition of the existing PennDOT Salt Building, full depth asphalt pavement, fence removal, and new pavement markings as indicated on the plans. Bid Documents will be available for public inspection and may be obtained on or after September 26, 2016 at Authority’s offices at the following address: Port Authority of Allegheny County Purchasing and Materials Management Department Heinz 57 Center 345 Sixth Avenue, Third Floor Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15222-2527 Bid Documents are available for purchase as follows: Bid Documents are available in an electronic form on compact disk upon payment of ($15.00) per set. Payment shall be by check or money order (NO CASH), payable to “Port Authority of Allegheny County.” No refunds of payment will be made. Upon request, Bid Documents can be mailed upon receipt of payment in full. Should the purchaser wish to have the Bid Documents delivered via special delivery, such as UPS or Federal Express, the purchaser shall provide its appropriate account numbers for such special delivery methods. This Project may be funded, in part, by, and subject to certain requirements of, the County of Allegheny and/or the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Authority, in compliance with 74 Pa.C.S. § 303, as may be amended, require that certified Diverse Businesses (“DBs”) have the maximum opportunity to participate in the performance of contracts and subcontracts for this Project. In this regard, all Bidders shall make good faith efforts in accordance with 74 Pa.C.S. § 303, to ensure that DBs have the maximum opportunity to compete for and perform contracts. Bidders shall also not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, age, disability, national origin, sexual origin, gender identity or status as a parent in the award and performance of contracts for this Project. If aid is required to involve DBs in the Work, Bidders are to contact Authority’s Director of Employee Relations and OEO at (412) 566-5262. The Bidder’s attention is directed to the following contacts for Bidder’s questions: Procedural Questions Regarding Bidding: Cynthia Denner - Authority (412) 566-5117 cdenner@portauthority.org All other questions relating to the Bid Documents must be submitted by mail or email to: Port Authority of Allegheny County Heinz 57 Center 345 Sixth Avenue, Third Floor Pittsburgh, PA 15222-2527 Attn: Cynthia Denner cdenner@portauthority.org In addition, the Bidder’s attention is directed to the following schedule of activities for preparation of its Bid: 9:00 AM Pre-Bid Conference October 11, 2016 Port Authority of Allegheny County Heinz 57 Center 5th Floor Conference Room 345 Sixth Avenue, Third Floor Pittsburgh, PA 15222-2527 (Attendance is not mandatory, but strongly recommended) 10:00 AM Site Tour McKeesport Transit Center October 12, 2016 Transportation will not be provided. Participants must wear safety vests and proper footwear. 1:30 p.m. Bids Due October 26, 2016 Purchasing and Materials Management Department Authority reserves the right to reject any or all Bids
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HOUSING AUTHORITY OF THE CITY OF PITTSBURGH INVITATION FOR BIDS (IFB) FOR EXTERIOR UFAS ACCESSIBLE VERTICAL LIFT AT MORSE GARDENS HACP CONTRACT NO. 600-44-16
THE HOUSING AUTHORITY OF THE CITY OF PITTSBURGH will receive sealed bids for Exterior UFAS Accessible Vertical Lift at Morse Gardens. The construction work is estimated to begin in March 2017 Bid Documents will be available on or about Monday, September 26, 2016 for a non-refundable fee of $25.00 in the form of a CERTIFIED CHECK OR MONEY ORDER ONLY. Bid Documents, including bid forms and project manual can be picked up in person, Monday through Friday from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. at: Housing Authority of the City of Pittsburgh Procurement Department 100 Ross Street, Suite 200 Pittsburgh, PA 15219 Kim Detrick, Director of Procurement A Pre-Bid Conference and Site Visit will be held on Friday, October 7, 2016 at 10:00 a.m.: Housing Authority of the City of Pittsburgh Morse Gardens 2416 Sarah Street Pittsburgh, PA 15203 A site visit will be conducted thereafter. Contractors shall come prepared to review all aspects of the site necessary to prepare a bid. Bids will be received at: HACP Procurement Department 100 Ross Street, Suite 200 Pittsburgh, PA 15219 Attn: Kim Detrick, Director of Procurement Until 10:00 a.m. Monday, October 17, 2016 at which time and place all bids will be publicly opened and read aloud. THE HOUSING AUTHORITY OF THE CITY OF PITTSBURGH reserves the right to waive any informality in, or reject any and all bids. No bid shall be withdrawn for a period of sixty (60) days subsequent to the opening of bids without the consent of the HOUSING AUTHORITY OF THE CITY OF PITTSBURGH. The Contractor will be required to comply with all applicable Equal Employment Opportunity requirements for Federally Assisted Construction Contracts. The Contractor must ensure that employees and applicants for employment are not discriminated against because of race, color, religion, sexual preference, handicap or national origin. HACP has revised its website. As part of those revisions, vendors must now register and log-in, in order to view and download IFB/RFP documentation. THE HOUSING AUTHORITY OF THE CITY OF PITTSBURGH STRONGLY ENCOURAGES CERTIFIED MINORITY-OWNED BUSINESS ENTERPRISES AND WOMAN-OWNED BUSINESS ENTERPRISES TO RESPOND TO THE SOLICITATION. Additional information may be obtained by contacting Kim Detrick, Director of Procurement at (412) 456-5116 Opt 1. Caster D. Binion, Executive Director HOUSING AUTHORITY OF THE CITY OF PITTSBURGH HACP conducts business in accordance with all federal, state, and local civil rights laws, including but not limited to Title VII, the Fair Housing Act, Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, the Americans with Disabilities Act, The PA Human Relations Act, etc. and does not discriminate against any individuals protected by these statutes.
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HOUSING AUTHORITY OF THE CITY OF PITTSBURGH REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL (RFP) FOR Northview Site Improvements RFP #600-45-16
The Housing Authority of the City of Pittsburgh (HACP) hereby request proposals from qualified Firms or Individuals capable of providing the following service(s): Northview Site Improvements RFP #600-45-16 The documents will be available no later than September 26, 2016 and signed, sealed proposals will be accepted until 10:00 A.M., October 26 2016 at which time they will be Time and Date Stamped at 100 Ross Street, 2nd Floor, Suite 200, Pittsburgh, PA 15219. Parties or individuals interested may obtain information from: Mr. Kim Detrick – Procurement Director/Contracting Officer Housing Authority of the City of Pittsburgh Procurement Department 100 Ross Street 2nd Floor, Suite 200 Pittsburgh, PA 15219 412-456-5116, Option 1 or by visiting the Business Opportunities section of www.hacp.org A pre submission meeting will be held: Housing Authority of the City of Pittsburgh Development & Modernization 100 Ross Street, 2nd Floor, Suite 200 Pittsburgh, PA 15219 October 7, 2016 2:00 P.M. The Housing Authority of the City of Pittsburgh strongly encourages certified minority business enterprises and women business enterprises to respond to this solicitation. HACP’s has revised their website. As part of those revisions, vendors must now register and log-in, in order to view and download IFB/RFPs documentation. Caster D. Binion, Executive Director Housing Authority of the City of Pittsburgh
HACP conducts business in accordance with all federal, state, and local civil rights laws, including but not limited to Title VII, the Fair Housing Act, Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, the Americans with Disabilities Act, The PA Human Relations Act, etc. and does not discriminate against any individuals protected by these statutes.
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Electronic Proposals will be received online at the Port Authority of Allegheny County’s Ebusiness website (http://ebusiness.port authority.org). Proposals/bid submittals will be due at 11:00am on October 21, 2016 and will be read at 11:15am, the same day, at Port Authority’s Heinz 57 Center location (345 Sixth Avenue, Third Floor, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15222-2527) for the following: Electronic Proposal - Ebusiness website (http://ebusiness.portauthority.org) Bid Number Bid Name B160107AR Asbestos Free Brake Blocks Assem. On Shoes–Coach B160866 Palo Alto Hardware, Software, and Licenses B160868A Janitorial Supplies B160869A Janitorial Supplies– Paper B160870A Janitorial Suppliies– Cleaning Products B160872A Wheel Tire Kits–LRV B160878 Pre-Cast Concrete Grade Crossings B160879 Prequalification for Natural Gas B160880 Prequalification for Electricity No bidder may withdraw a submitted Proposal for a period of 75 days after the scheduled time for opening of the sealed bids. A Pre-Bid Conference will be held on each of the above items at 10:00am on October 5, 2016 at Port Authority’s Heinz 57 Center location (345 Sixth Avenue, Third Floor, Pittsburgh, PA 15222). Attendance at this meeting is not mandatory, but is strongly encouraged. Questions regarding any of the above bids will not be entertained by the Port Authority within 48 hours of the scheduled bid opening. These contracts may be subject to a financial assistance contract between Port Authority of Allegheny County and the United States Department of Transportation. The Contractor will be required to comply with all applicable Equal Employment Opportunity laws and regulations. Contractor is responsible for expenses related to acquiring a performance bond and insurance where applicable. All items are to be FOB delivered unless otherwise specified. Costs for delivery, bond, and insurance shall be included in bidder’s proposal pricing. Port Authority of Allegheny County hereby notifies all bidders that it will affirmatively insure that in regard to any contract entered into pursuant to this advertisement, disadvantaged business enterprise will be afforded full opportunity to submit bids in response to this invitation and will not be discriminated against on the grounds of race, color, or national origin in consideration for an award. The Board of Port Authority reserves the right to reject any or all bids.
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CCAC panel discussion on ‘Pittsburgh African American Trailblazers’ The Community College of Allegheny County hosted a panel discussion entitled “Pittsburgh African American Trailblazers” in the Foerster Student Services Center of CCAC’s Allegheny Campus on, Sept. 17.
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Women’s group presents The Legacy of Love Community Celebration
DAUGHTER ROBIN ESPY-HARLAN reading the various Proclamations honoring Henry Espy Jr.
KAREN ARRINGTON sings a solo during the honoring of Henry Espy Jr.
DAUGHTER DEBORAH ESPY spoke about her father.
KAREN HOWARD reads the History of Henry Espy Jr.
On Aug. 27 Women For Excellence proudly presented The Legacy of Love Community Celebration at the Kingsley Association, 6435 Frankstown Ave. The Legacy of Love Community Celebration is a public event that celebrates diversity, culture, creativity, and overall love. This event featured various Pittsburgh and surrounding area vendors and performers. In addition to family, food, and fun The Legacy of Love Community Celebration honored the life and memory of Henry (Hank) W. Espy Jr. (1923-2015). Hank was a legendary pillar of various Pittsburgh communities that impacted and touched the lives of all he came in contact with. This celebration was to honor his memory and to give back, something that he was adamant about.
MARLENE ESPY TAYLOR mistress of ceremony was the daughter of Henry Espy Jr.
KEVIN WELLS reads a poem in honor of Henry Espy Jr.
VICKI BEY recites a poem in honor of Henry Espy Jr.
DRUMMING—Ben Fullard, Lamon Chapman and Reese Redwood drumming to provide entertainment.
THE FAMILY OF THE LATE HENRY ESPY JR. (Photos by Gail Manker)