Lunchtime on Penn Avenue. Photo by John Altdorfer
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Lunchtime on Penn Avenue. Photo by John Altdorfer
Group launches website to provide news, give voice to Black community in Pittsburgh
Trib Live, December 14, 2021A Pittsburgh-based group of artists and activists has launched a website aimed to amplify the city’s Black voices.
Read MoreINEZ, Staycee Pearl win $20,000 Carol R. Brown Creative Achievement Awards
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, December 14, 2021Danielle Walker, a singer-songwriter and sound engineer who goes by the name INEZ, and Staycee R. Pearl, a choreographer and visual artist, are the recipients of this year’s Carol R. Brown Creative Achievement Awards.
Read MoreChoreographer Staycee R. Pearl, musician INEZ named Carol R. Brown Creative Achievement Award honorees
The Heinz Endowments, The Pittsburgh Foundation and Opportunity Fund, December 13, 2021Six artists recognized; one Established, one Emerging Artist each awarded $20,000
Read MoreHeinz Endowments awards $5.4 million grants to Black cultural organizations
New Pittsburgh Courier, December 13, 2021The Heinz Endowments, in collaboration with the POISE Foundation, on Dec. 2 announced its selection of 16 cultural organizations that are the first grant recipients through the Pittsburgh’s Cultural Treasures program the Endowments launched this
... Read More$5.4 million Cultural Treasures program supports 16 Black arts groups
NextPittsburgh, December 9, 2021Gail Austin has hired a couple of staff members for Kente Arts Alliance and is looking for a permanent home for the group, thanks to a $250,000 grant to support Black arts in Pittsburgh.
Read MoreData science proved what Pittsburgh’s Black leaders knew: Racial disparities compound COVID risk
PublicSource, December 7, 2021The ferocity of the covid-19 pandemic did what Black Pittsburgh — communities that make up a quarter of the city’s population — thought impossible. It shook the norms.
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