Originally published: Pittsburgh Post Gazette, 9/20/2019 The Regional Industrial Development Corp. of Southwestern Pennsylvania has donated a former business center in Duquesne to the nonprofit Urban League of Greater Pittsburgh. The three-story Business Innovation Center is located on Library Place at Route 837, across from RIDC’s City Center of Duquesne, formerly U.S. Steel’s Duquesne Works. [...]
Originally published: Pittsburgh Business Times, 9/20/2019 The Regional Industrial Development Corporation of Southwestern Pennsylvania announced Friday that it had donated a three-story building in Duquesne to the Urban League of Greater Pittsburgh. The building was constructed in the late 1800s to early 1900s and served as an office building for Carnegie Steel, which later became [...]
Joanne Lohuis was on the verge of losing her Swissvale home. Her long-term unemployment benefits had run out two years ago and she could no longer make her $650 monthly mortgage payments. The situation became more desperate each month. After about four months, the bank served her with a foreclosure notice and moved to seize [...]
By: Andrea Klick, Pittsburgh Post Gazette Longtime Urban League of Greater Pittsburgh leader Esther Bush was honored this week with a Women of Power award at the annual National Urban League Conference in Indianapolis. Since 1994, Ms. Bush has served as president of the local organization, which pushes for economic equality and civil rights for [...]
Originally published: New Pittsburgh Courier, 04/4/2019 Dear Editor: With the state budget looming, interest in the state investment in public education is higher than ever. While Governor Wolf and the PA legislature have increased education funding over the past several budget cycles, more continued investments —like the governor’s proposed additional $50 million for high quality [...]
By: Lacretia Wimbley for the Post-Gazette, Published April 2, 2019 Marcus F. Walton asked a room of around 100 top African-American CEOs and community leaders to hold hands, close their eyes, and confront whatever discomfort they may feel during the second annual African American Strategic Partnership conference on Tuesday. “Allow yourself to wander, to think, to be [...]
By: Andrew Goldstein for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Almost four months to the day after a gunman killed 11 people at Tree of Life synagogue, hundreds of people attended a forum in the Strip District that explored ways to end the kind of hate that led to that violence. At a town hall Tuesday at the [...]
By Sarah Schneider for 90.5 WESA Less than 20 percent of registered voters cast ballots in the last four Pittsburgh school board elections, according to a coalition of 17 groups trying to get out the vote in the second largest school district in Pennsylvania. The Pittsburgh Public School District controls a $650 million budget and the nine members enact everything from [...]
By: Andrew Goldstein, Pittsburgh Post Gazette 02/14/2019 Leaders of three different faiths whose houses of worship were struck by violence came together Wednesday night in Pittsburgh to discuss ways to combat hate. Rabbi Jeffrey Myers, of Tree of Life synagogue in Squirrel Hill, the Rev. Eric S.C. Manning, of Mother Emmanuel AME Church in Charelston, [...]
Originally published: New Pittsburgh Courier 02/14/2019By: Christian Morrow and J.L. Martello “Urban League Sunday” is the organization’s signature event during Black History Month, and while its message over 33 years has long been one of striving for togetherness, that message may not have been delivered as forcefully as it was this year by keynote speaker [...]
