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History In The Making’ 10 young Black leaders honored
Category: Youth Written by Courier Newsroom
Mayor Luke Ravenstahl and Citiparks honored 10 local young African-American leaders in a Black History Month tribute displayed in the lobby of the City-County Building, Downtown.“History in the Making: Honoring Our Young African American Leaders of Today” ran throughout the month of February
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| HONOREES—Front, from left: Major Lisa Bellamy, Constance F. Horton, La’Tasha D. Mayes, Greer Reed-Jones and Jamilla Rice. Back, from left: Charles Chapman, Paul A. Ellis, Barrett Woods, Monte Robinson and Rob Wilson.
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Pittsburgh schools expanding tech offerings
Category: Youth Written by Christian Morrow - Courier Staff Writer
With the empty hulk of a closed Connolly Technical School looming over the city, education advocates have long argued that the Pittsburgh Public Schools’ focus on preparing students for college left no career path training for non-college bound students.
The district responded with several career-oriented programs, but they were specific to certain schools and unavailable on a district-wide basis. That will change if a new model for delivering Career and Technical Training, released last week, is adopted. All the academic programs in these schools will remain the same.
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Boy Scouts host Whitney M. Young Jr. Service Awards
Category: Youth Written by Courier Newsroom
The Greater Pittsburgh Council, the Boy Scouts of America hosted the 21st Annual Whitney M. Young Jr. Service Awards Dinner at the Senator John Heinz History Center in the Strip District on Feb. 4.
The service award recognizes outstanding service by an adult or organization in the development of scouting for low-income rural or urban youth.
The service award recognizes outstanding service by an adult or organization in the development of scouting for low-income rural or urban youth.
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| HONOREES—Ernest Jackson and Eric Mann, representing the YMCA, holding their awards are surrounded by scouts.
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Acting ‘ghetto’ in college
Category: Youth Written by Courier Newsroom
by Keona Prude
(Black College Wire)—While in college, you are bound to meet people from different backgrounds and cultural settings. One image becoming more apparent to me is the “hood” or “ghetto” representation.
On a daily basis, I hear someone saying “I’m from the streets,” or “I’m from the hood.” Being from the hood is not a problem. However, when you cannot differentiate between what’s appropriate behavior in a college setting because you are stuck in your hood mentality, that’s when it becomes an issue.
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Amachi reaches out to 500th mentee
Category: Youth Written by Ashley N. Johnson
With an alarming statistic of approximately two million children under the age of 18 having one or both parents incarcerated and 7,000 of those children being located in Allegheny County, according to the Amachi Pittsburgh website, it is not hard to see why the organization continues their mission to mentor children ages 4 to 18, who are victims of having an incarcerated parent.
In January 2010, the non-profit faith based program announced the milestone of their 500th mentor-mentee match with a child from Penn Hills and a man from New Kensington.
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