With the recent announcement that the proposed Kuhn’s grocery coming to the Hill has fallen apart, it has been more than 30 years since the community has had a grocery store. So we asked Pittsburghers what they thought. Here’s what you said:

Mary Wright, Curtis Reynolds and Velma Kennedy

“It’s been many years, sine we’ve had one. Hopefully we will. I’m sort of skeptical about it, though. We deserve one. After all this time everybody keeps saying we’re getting a store, we’re getting a store then everyone backs away. I don’t know, why it’s no worse than anyplace else.”
Mary Wright
Hill District

We have marched over the years, and highlighted a multitude of problems that had relegated Blacks to the status of second-class citizens. A number of problems have been addressed and at a point in time in this nation a number of people who looked different than us were arm in arm with us, but the nation’s mood has changed among too many Blacks and Whites.

I have been a witness and a participant in so many marches that I have lost count. The marchers numbered from two to numbers that were staggering, but regretfully once the marching, speech making and high fives were over, the problems we marched for still existed. It reminds you of the statement that rap with no map does not change anything.

by Tonyaa Weathersbee

I figured it was only a matter of time before some news organization would weigh in on how Black men were living up to their man duties a year after voters put one of them in the White House.

So CNN recently visited a Dallas barbershop and some social service organizations to gauge the Obama phenomena; to see whether the nation’s first Black president had inspired more of them to become better fathers and mentors, and to see themselves as pillars, and not pebbles, of their communities.

(REAL TIMES MEDIA)—Ten years ago, the majority of Black America was introduced to the world of social networking sites when Blackplanet went online. It was one of the first social networking sites online and the first to be targeted specifically at Black Americans. People met future spouses, business partners, lovers and a whole array of dramatic situations that all began with a quick search for adventure. Now with the explosion of sites like MySpace and Facebook so much of our lives are filtered through the online world that many are forgetting about our basic human nature. Despite what some sensational news stories may tell us, these websites haven’t really changed us that much, they’ve just given everyone another outlet to act crazy, when they would’ve been crazy anyway.