MINNEAPOLIS (NNPA)—The Chicago Defender Newspaper, which at 104, is historically among the nation’s oldest and most influential Black-owned newspapers, has been awarded the prestigious Russwurm Award during this year’s NNPA Merit Awards Gala June 26. The Defender edged out its sister paper, the New Pittsburgh Courier, by a single point.
BIG WINNER—Chicago Defender Publisher Michael House, left, receives the prestigious Russwurm Award from NNPA Foundation Chair Dorothy Leavell (not shown) and Chair John B. Smith Sr.
DISCUSSING OPTIONS—Dwelling House President John Haines explains the bank’s options during a June 19 meeting at the Hill House Association.
Dwelling House Savings and Loan, the Hill District banking institution that was electronically defrauded of nearly $2 million, has commitments to restore the lost capital and, hopefully satisfy federal regulators.
When news of the death of Michael Jackson spread, it hit people all over the world hard. Pittsburgh was no exception. Jackson was not just a singer, dancer or entertainer. To most he was a legend. He accomplished things that few artists ever imagined.
WASHINGTON (NNPA)—Michael Jackson. The name itself is synonymous with music legend. That is why reports of his death from cardiac arrest June 23 continue to stun fans around the world.
EYES ON THE PRIZE—A Larimer model at the Kingsley Association provides residents with a bird’s eye view of the possibilities in their neighborhood.
The Kingsley Association is working to prepare residents in the East End for a series of opportunities coming to their neighborhood. Despite their efforts at the Urban Green Growth Collaborative meeting June 24, several residents were more concerned with airing past grievances than listening to the representatives from several programs and organizations.
It’s not surprising that the Evergreen Solutions LLC study of Pittsburgh city government found employees earned less than in the private sector. But the degree of disparity in wages and management opportunities between White males and their female and Black co-workers was a surprise city council was chagrined to acknowledge.
Neil Barclay has left the building. Today, Marva H. Harris begins an interim stint as president and CEO of the August Wilson Center for African American Culture. Oliver W. Byrd, chairperson of the board of directors of the AWC, made the announcement Friday.
Five Port Authority of Allegheny County police officers, with service ranging from seven to 19 years, have filed a racial discrimination suit against the authority.
A study produced by the Rand Corp. in 2006 found that 50 percent of African-American males in Pittsburgh Public Schools do not graduate. This year, 381 African-American males graduated from the 10 high schools.
MINNEAPOLIS (NNPA)—Phill Wilson watched painfully as HIV/AIDS was dismissed by African-Americans in the early 1980s as a disease primarily afflicting White gay men. Now, a quarter of a century later, African-Americans, who are 12 percent of the U.S. population, account for nearly half of all new HIV infections, a rate seven times that of Whites.
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