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A GROUNDBREAKING CEREMONY was held, June 12, at the Kaufmann Center in the Hill District. The occasion was to celebrate ACH Clear Pathways purchasing the center, and also to celebrate the amenities that will be added to the center. At right is a photo of Amon C. Harris, who died in 2009 at age 7. “ACH” are Amon’s initials. (Photos by J.L. Martello)

ACH Clear Pathways purchases Kaufmann Center in Hill District Additions to building begin in July

by Rob Taylor Jr. Courier Staff Writer

Lawrence Butler is far from a household name.

In fact, as the organization ACH Clear Pathways celebrated its groundbreaking of a new addition to the Kaufmann Center, the building in the Hill District now owned by ACH Clear Pathways, Dr. Butler joked about his moment to speak to the crowd, sandwiched in between well-known local orators like state Rep. Jake Wheatley and City CouncilTYIAN BATTLE, executive director of ACH Clear Pathways. man R. Daniel Lavelle.

But it was Butler who may have had the most memorable statements. After all, he knew Amon C. Harris intimately. He was Amon’s pediatrician.

“I can’t help sometimes but to think of the profound and deep sadness that Tyian experienced at the loss of that young life,” Dr. Butler said. “And other times I can’t help but reflect on the exhiliaration and the hope that the memory of his life and the dedication to this project brings.”

The crowd that gathered to the left of the Hill House at lunch time, June 12, was all ears as Dr. Butler spoke.

“At some point in time, Tyian took that very deep grief and she turned it into the fire that has become the inspiration for this project. Tyian Battle and this project, this building, this

center for the arts, is a testimony that anything can happen.”

Tyian Battle is from the Hill District, and in 2009, her son, Amon C. Harris, died at age 7 from a rare heart condition. Over the past decade, Battle has honored her late son’s memory by providing opportunities for local children in the Hill and surrounding areas.

Amon loved martial arts, Battle has said, and martial arts, along with theatre, acting, dance, music, poetry, etc., are offered to kids via ACH Clear Pathways.

The organization has operated out of spaces such as the Blakey Center and Ammon Recreation Center, but last summer, ACH Clear Pathways moved its offerings to the Kaufmann Center, next to the Hill House on Centre Avenue.

‘I CAN’T GO HOME AND TAKE MY SKIN COLOR OFF’ Camille Redman, a Pittsburgh protest organizer on trauma, police brutality, and peaceful protests

by Ayisat Bisiriyu iGeneration Youth

Camille Redman, 25, of the Pittsburgh area, never saw herself as an activist. However, when a White friend, upset by the comments she heard in her predominantly White neighborhood in the aftermath of George Floyd’s death, reached out, wanting to organize a protest, Redman couldn’t refuse.

A biracial woman, Redman had experienced her fair share of struggles because of the color of her skin. She was ready to take a stand. Until that moment, she’d never considered she might become a powerhouse who would lead hundreds of protesters through the streets. However, after circulating ideas in a group SEE REDMAN A4

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Fast forward to June 12, after Allegheny County had moved into the “Green Phase” during the coronavirus pandemic, and more than 150 people came out to celebrate (with masks, of course) not only the fact that ACH Clear Pathways was able to purchase the Kaufmann Center, but that 2,500 square feet of space would be added to the center for a digital media studio and an art studio.

“When I first met Ty two years ago to discuss a project she was advocating in the Hill District, I was immediately impressed with her motivation. Her motivation was to build a community and a better life for the underserved youth up here and their families,” state Senator Wayne FonSEE ACH A2

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tana, another speaker, said at the event. “I was so encouraged by her enthusiasm and detailed planning of her mission that I was motivated.”

“In the midst of all of this craziness that we have going on in the world, God always shows us an example of his power,” opined Rep. Wheatley.

He said Battle’s ability to

take a “vision that really started out of pain and turn it into something that’s going to benefit so many other families and children, and then to take this historic institution (Kaufmann Center) and continue to repurpose it… that many of our families in this community can continue to utilize, that is a special jewel, that is something that only the

ACH CLEAR PATHWAYS EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR TYIAN BATTLE and Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto go with the “elbow bump,” following proper guidance pertaining to the coronavirus pandemic. (Photos by Courier photographer J.L. Martello) Creator could have foreseen. It’s indicative of your (Battle’s) testimony.

God is using you for a testimony for other people to follow.”

Construction on the new addition will begin on July 1, and is scheduled to be completed in late November.

Battle said ACH Clear Pathways announced in August 2019 a campaign to raise $5 million for the organization to purchase the center and maintain sustainability.

They’ve raised $3 million, to the delight of Battle, but she acknowledged that the fundraising efforts aren’t over. ACH Clear Pathways wants to raise the remaining $2 million, ensuring the organization’s ability to provide the necessary services for the mostly-Black youth in the Hill for years to come. Details on how to contribute, BatTYIAN BATTLE speaks, as a photo of her son, Amon C. Harris, is tle said, would be on the seen in front of the podium.

organization’s website, www.achclearpathways. org.

“The Hill is a very special place in the City of Pittsburgh and I don’t want to stop here,” Battle told the crowd.

Other political dignitaries that attended and spoke at the event included Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto, who said that he loved “everything about this project,” particularly how, in the face of the Hill House Association dissolving in 2019 and the Kaufmann Center’s future in limbo at the time, “we found a way from within to be able to save it,” Peduto said.

But even before Pittsburgh’s mayor knew Battle, or before ACH Clear Pathways was ever formed, Dr. Butler was there, front-and-center with Amon, the boy whose life made it possible for all that’s been achieved in his

namesake by his mother, Tyian Battle.

“This center is a reason for optimism,” Dr. Butler said at the event. “We must show our young people that there are many of us who refuse to be enemies. We refuse to let the actions of a few dictate how we conduct our lives with the many. Remind ourselves that even though bad things happen around us, we have to look for the good things and the people around us. ACH Clear Pathways, this project, this building, this center for the arts is a beacon here for the optimism that we need to share with our young people.

“I believe Amon is smiling down on this event today, beaming with pride with what his mother has LAWRENCE BUTLER, M.D., accomplished, excited Amon C. Harris’ pediatrician. about the possibilities the kids will get at this center.”

The crowd listened in- tently as Dr. Butler continued. “You know, none of us can ever know exactly why somebody dies. Doctors and scientists sometimes later on can tell us how someone died. But no one knows exactly why someone died. Only God knows. But sometimes as time goes on, it becomes obvious why someone lived, and I think it’s obvious why Amon C. Harris lived. He lived because he became an example and an inspiration to his mother, to this community, to this city, and to this project. ACH. Amon C. Harris. Anything Can Happen.”

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chat, word spread like wildfire. The next day, a large crowd formed in a McDonald’s parking lot. Businesses donated water, masks and snacks. City officials came to support. They worked with community police to keep the protesters safe.

On Friday, June 5, a mixed crowd of approximately 600 protesters marched without incident along West Liberty Avenue in the borough of Dormont. Near the mouth of the Liberty Tunnel, which connects the borough to neighboring Pittsburgh, they took a knee during an eight-minute, 46-second period of silence to protest the death of George Floyd, a 46-year-old Black man, who was killed May 25 in Minneapolis during an arrest for

allegedly using a counterfeit bill.

“I think it speaks volumes to the character of all of the people that have been protesting—especially White people,” said Redman. “It takes a lot for a White person to understand their privilege, but it takes twice that amount of courage for them to go out and use it as a platform to speak on the things that are going wrong in the world.”

Ayisat Bisiriyu: Why are you protesting?

Camille Redman: Because I am a woman of color.

For a long time, people of color haven’t had a voice, and if we did, nobody paid attention. So, I’m trying to use my half-White platform to let my half-Black struggles and pain be known as well.

I want people to hear the Black community and think of us as people who just want the same as everybody else. I don’t want to be fighting the same fight 50 years from now. It’s our generation’s turn to stand up in a fight for you and the younger generations below to give you guys a fair chance in this world.

AB: What do you think is the most common misconception being put out about protesters right now?

CR: That we’re violent. For so long, America has written this narrative that Black people are violent. Black people can’t gather in large crowds because some type of violence happens, whether it’s a fight or someone getting shot. I want people to know that we are not vio-

lent. I led a protest of five to 600 people (on June 5) with not one incident.

AB: I feel like the conversation around these protests is so much different from before. I feel like the response was always more like, what should he or she have done to change the police response? But now it seems like it’s shifting to, why did the police do that? Why do we allow this systemic thing to happen?

CR: At first, a lot of people categorized the protests as something violent. But this is coming from a place of pain, a place of trauma.

And it isn’t just this situation that brings the pain and trauma. It’s sewn into the Black community. It’s passed down from generation to generation because

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AYISAT BISIRIYU, 16, is the Pittsburgh co-bureau chief at iGeneration Youth. She enjoys reading, writing, acting, and cooking. She loves to tell stories and share them with the world. Read more stories at www.igenerationyouth.com. nothing has changed. People are starting to educate themselves on the systemic racism and the oppression that is all sewn into America. People aren’t breaking things and destroying things for the fun of it. They’re doing it because they’re angry, and we’re seeing a physical representation of pain.

AB: What is your plan of action if violence or riots break out at a protest?

CR: We had marshals in green vests on each side of our protest. We had a group text going with the leaders who were at the front who were in constant communication and looking out for troublemakers. We also came up with a safe word that we handed out to people by word of mouth. If we said the word over the megaphone, everybody was to drop to one knee because that meant there was some person being violent and the person could be singled out.

Our plan was a way to show that those people are not with us. If they’re inciting vi-

olence, they’re not a part of the movement.

AB: Why do you think it is important for people in Pittsburgh, around the country, and around the world to protest?

CR: All of the great changes that have ever happened in America have come from protesting, whether it was the boycott of public transportation that lasted 300-something days, or the civil rights movement that went on for years.

I’m really proud of the people who are going out and organizing these protests because it shows that something has to be done.

It’s not just Black people saying, “Hey, our houses are on fire.” It’s Asian people. It’s White people. It is African people. It is people from England and all of these great places who are saying, “Hey, their house is on fire. We need to help put it out.”

AB: Do you think that in general and also with the protests that police officers are using excessive force?

CR: It’s kind of situational.

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Ed Gainey.

Derrick Tillman.

Aerion Abney.

Alphonso “Fonz” Sloan.

Terrell Thomas.

Austin Davis.

B. Marshall, organizer of the event.

Just some of Pittsburgh’s Black men who came together in a sign of solidarity against violence, addressing the crowd of hundreds on June 7 at Freedom Corner in the Hill District.

But in each of the speakers’ own way, one message was clear— self-inflicted violence in the African American community must stop,

and violence inflicted on African Americans by police officers must stop.

Enough is enough.

“We want to live in peace, not rest in peace,” Abney said.

Among the local African Americans who were killed at the hands of area police officers remembered were Johnny Gammage, Jerry Jackson, Romir Talley, Bruce Kelly, Mark Daniels and Antwon Rose II. Fathers were encouraged to bring their sons or a boy that they’re mentoring to the event.

The event was led by the organization Stop The Violence Pittsburgh.

THE BLACK MEN’S SOLIDARITY EVENT brought hundreds of local Black men together at Freedom Corner. (Photos By J.L. Martello)

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(NNPA)––As more corporations jump into the fray, offering statements of support for African Americans in the aftermath of the police killing of George Floyd and the ensuing protests, a new study reveals that many companies’ actual policies and practices contradict their public statements.

With just a small amount of research, short-term marketing and public relations positioning using words proclaiming empathy, understanding and support of Black causes can too often be found to be in direct contrast of long-term human resources dictates.

A survey by the National Employment Law Project (NELP) about working conditions during the COVID-19 pandemic confirms that corporate America has treated Black workers categorically worse than White workers during the pandemic.

African Americans were twice as likely to answer “Yes,” or “Maybe,” when asked if they or anyone at their company had been punished for raising COVID-19 safety concerns. The survey found that Black workers were roughly twice as likely to have been retaliated against by their employers for speaking up about health concerns and requesting time off work.

For instance, Amazon fired Black and brown workers who have organized to demand more substantial health and safety protections. Thousands of Instacart workers, many of whom are women of color, are reportedly waiting for face masks and hand sanitizer promised months ago.

Three out of four Black workers who took the survey said they showed up to work during the pandemic even though they believed they might have been seriously risking their health or the health of family members. Less than half of White workers said they had done the same.

“Our results suggest that virus transmission in the workplace may be exacerbated by employer repression and that the disproportionate impact of COVID-19

ing. Obviously, we must focus on the roles Black workers are in to make changes from here.”

Amit Raj said he was working parttime as a pharmacist earlier this year when he raised concerns.

“As we were working within an office within a warehouse where there were almost no changes to working practice despite the pandemic. Since we were deemed an ‘essential service,’ we were also not allowed to work from home,” Raj stated in an email.

“Despite bringing this up on many occasions and management being aware, I was first just ignored. And was soon demoted from an assistant manager position,” he said.

“However, the reason given for the demotion was that my part-time hours were not allowing me to manage effectively. I have now decided to place my focus on my digital marketing business.”

Raj has since founded Amit Digital Marketing.

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Nice to look at …but he’s not trying to marry you When you gain expert level knowledge or skill over a particular subject or talent, many people mistakenly think that you’re an expert on everything. I get tons of relationship questions from single women that are family and friends. In fact, I might get more relationship questions from female family and friends than I get financial questions. A large percentage of my Financial Planning Clients are single women.

Personal Finance is more personal than it is finance. As a result, I expect to discuss life topics in a financial planning session. There have been times when a financial planning session was so heavily focused on relational matters, I’ll walk away from the meeting wondering if I was hired to be their Financial Advisor or their friend.

Working with several single females over the years, I’ve observed a commonality. Many women that are doing exceedingly well financially are single, no kids, or empty nesters. Yep, no man, no babies or having a child who is grown and out of the house allows women to focus—keeping her mind on her money and her money on her mind. I’ve worked with a decent number of single women with no child rearing responsibility who had amassed a $500,000 net worth or higher.

On the opposite end of the spectrum, I’ve talked to countless single women who are family, friends, and clients— many of whom feel that men have been the reason for their financial demise.

I’ve heard several stories where a female

cosigned for her man on various loans.

He didn’t pay. Now her credit is messed up. I’ve heard stories about some men pretending to have a job—getting up and getting dressed to go to work every day.

No job, no income to contribute to the household. I’ve heard stories about men who stole money from their woman. I’ve heard stories of men exerting physical abuse over women in an effort to control her purse strings. I’ve heard of stories of men promising their women the sun, the rain, the moon, the stars, the mountains, the world and all that they wish for and more—only to leave them barefoot and pregnant or childrearing and broke.

Bringing comic relief to some very painful experiences these women have endured, I have a scripted response that always gets a laugh, “where did you find this dude, Cell-Block D” (Jail)?

Ladies, it’s better to avoid certain situations. You don’t want to get seriously involved with anyone or anything that leads to nowhere. Common responses I hear from women when I asked where did you find this dude? “I attract deadbeats.” “I’m a magnet for good for nothing guys,” or “married men always try to talk to me.”

Well over 20-years ago, I recall sitting in on a lecture. The speaker said, in his day he could go downtown and instantly be able to tell the difference between a

teacher and a prostitute. Today when I go downtown, I can’t tell the difference. Yet the prostitute has not changed her style of dress. As a young man, my friends and I spoke in code on several topics. Only we knew what each other was talking about. I recall going back home for the weekend. I went over to my friend’s house. There was a young woman there whom I never met. She was eye-candy. Rick James definition of a “Brick House”. I kept my cool and didn’t allow my eyes to pop out of socket. As my friend, he knew what I was thinking. He asked, are you still into real estate? I responded yeah. He said, “I’ve been looking at some houses.

I saw this one house. It was nice. Mad curb appeal but the lights are not on.”

Not even knowing, right in front of this young lady, he’s given me his assessment of her. Nice to look at, but she’s lacking somewhere. It could be no conversation, no work ethic, no goals, and no drive.

Most men know almost instantly if this is a woman that we want to “have fun with” or “build with.” As a woman, you have to be aware of what you put out there for what you put out is what you attract. If your preferred style of dress is being scantily clad, you can’t expect a man to be attracted to your mind. He was attracted to your body, not your thoughts.

As a woman, who is seeking a decent man, you have to ask yourself questions.

Why is it that I’m attracting uninspiring men? Why am I attracted to bad guys?

Where am I meeting these guys? How am I projecting myself? Am I coming across as thirsty for a man? Why don’t I flee when I see the red flags? The answers to these questions will help mitigate bad situations and allow you to attract quality men.

Guys—we have to do our part. Stop giving women empty promises. Be honest with them. Tell them where you stand. This will allow a woman to decide if she wants to continue or not. Being honest will help you avoid drama associated with a broken heart. This will give her the foresight to guard her heart and unfortunately for you—guard her wallet too.

We’re living in different times. Gone are the days where quality men are looking for trophy wives. Gone are the days where a woman can depend on a man to take care of them. Gone are the days where grown men and women are seeking to take care of or provide financially for other grown men and women. Both men and women are looking for partners whom they can build with. A big butt and a smile isn’t enough. A Wide, V shaped back and chiseled abs isn’t enough. You have to bring something to the table – money, drive, intellect, and skill—something!

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CANDLELIGHT VIGIL for George Floyd at Jack Yates High School. (Photo by Jared R. Gilmore of J. Raphael’s Photography)

Will the murder of George Floyd finally bring about the change Black people have demanded?

by Jeffrey L. Boney For New Pittsburgh Courier

(NNPA)—“I can’t breathe!”

This has become an all too familiar phrase, uttered by yet another African American man on video, nearly six years after America was temporarily traumatized by the story of Eric Garner.

Garner, of course, was infamously captured on video being choked to death by a New York Police Department officer, while being arrested for a suspected crime on July 17, 2014.

Fast forward to May 25, 2020, and we see an eerily familiar scene play out on camera, involving another Black man being suffocated by an illegal departmental procedure carried out by a rogue, White police officer. That Black man who was tragically killed was Mr. George Perry Floyd Jr. On the evening of May 25th, which was Memorial Day, Floyd had gone to a local store to purchase some cigarettes, and after paying for the cigarettes, an employee of that store claimed that Floyd had used a counterfeit $20 bill to pay for them. The store employee called the police to report Floyd and when the Minneapolis police officers arrived, they began to do their investigation. After a few minutes, the police came out and told Floyd that he was under arrest.

Already handcuffed, unarmed and not resisting at all, the 46-year-old native Houstonian can be heard on video uttering his very last words, “I can’t breathe” as Floyd plead for his life to then-Minneapolis police officer, Derek Chauvin, to remove his knee from his neck.

At some points on the video, you can hear Floyd begging for his life, crying out “Please” and “Don’t kill me,” and then doing something that has pulled on the heartstrings of so many—calling out for his deceased mother. These continuous and desperate cries for relief were ignored, as that Minneapolis police officer’s knee continued to be lodged in the back of Floyd’s neck for 8 minutes and 46 seconds, all while three other officers stood, watched and did nothing.

It is believed that George Floyd told the officer roughly 16 times that he could not breathe.

The four officers involved with the incident were immediately terminated and have now

finally been arrested. Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison has since taken over the case.

Upon Ellison taking over the case, former officer Derek Chauvin received an upgraded charge of second-degree murder. The three other officers who stood by and did nothing to assist Floyd, or stop Chauvin from murdering him, were charged with aiding and abetting second-degree murder.

During his press conference announcing the new charges, Ellison profoundly stated: “We need citizens, neighbors, leaders in government, and in faith communities, civil and human rights activists, to begin rewriting the rules for a just society now. We need new policy and legislation and ways of thinking at the municipal, state and federal levels. The world of arts and entertainment can use their cultural influence to inspire change that we need. There is a role for all who dream of a justice that we haven’t yet experienced. In the final analysis, a protest can shake a tree and can make the fruit fall down, but after that fruit is in reach, collecting it and making the jam must follow. The demonstrations and the protests are dramatic and necessary but building just institutions is more of a slow grind, but equally important and we have to begin that work as well. We need your energy and we need everyone’s help right now.”

Members of his family, civil rights activists, and many others, are demanding justice.

There have been countless marches, protests and candlelight vigils taking place all over the world, after witnessing what happened to this Black man on camera—an unnecessary death. Others are seeking to defund police departments and introduce sweeping new legislation to address the recurring issue.

According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, the word “enough” is defined as “a sufficient number, quantity, or amount.”

As it relates to the pain and suffering that Black Americans of African descent have had to endure since the founding of this country, Black people have had “enough”. But, simply saying Black people have had “enough” is a mere understatement. It is safe to say that Black people have had “more than enough” of being plagued with racism and being unfairly treated just because of the color of their skin.

The tragic way in which George Floyd was murdered has conjured up so many past and recent memories of Black people that have fallen victim to homegrown, domestic terrorism, at the hands of members of law enforcement or those who just simply despise Black people.

In many instances, those two aggressors are one in the same—racists and members of law enforcement.

In October 2006, the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) released a report, where they issued a warning that revealed that their findings showed that “White supremacist infiltration of law enforcement” represented a significant national threat to the U.S. Interestingly enough, after the FBI’s warning, White supremacy extremism in the U.S. increased, exponentially. From 2008 to 2014, the number of White supremacist groups, reportedly, grew from roughly 150 to nearly 1,000 groups, with no real knowledge of whether the FBI’s report findings helped to lessen the infiltration of White supremacists into law enforcement.

What happened to George Floyd was a modern-day lynching…period!

But what has happened to so many other Black people, the absolute majority of which have been unarmed, fit the category of a modern day lynching also. This time, things appear somewhat different though.

This time it appears the many people in this country have finally awakened from a deep sleep and are finally realizing that what Black people have been marching, protesting and complaining about for decades, is actually real.

This moment in history seems to be a mirror-image of what happened to Black marchers who were caught on video being severely attacked by members of law enforcement.

In 1965, at an event known infamously as “Bloody Sunday”, those Black marchers were beaten with Billy clubs, trampled by horses and bitten by dogs, as they simply sought to march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, seeking to secure voting rights. The thing that made “Bloody Sunday” open up the eyes of those who had been asleep and who had ignored the cries of Black people, was that the entire ordeal was captured on video for the world to see.

There have been many instances where Black people have been caught on camera being viciously attacked, and even murdered, but there has been little to no justice received for those individuals, as it relates to their attackers and murderers being held accountable for their crimes.

Many Black people are still grieving, angry, frustrated, seeking answers, seeking justice, trying to cope and trying to figure out ways to further protect themselves and their sons and daughters.

The death of George Floyd is yet another example of why Colin Kaepernick took a knee, and why every American, regardless of your race, should be concerned about what Black people have been complaining about for decades.

The name, George Floyd, is more than just a hashtag; more than just a newly created Wikipedia page; and more than just another unarmed victim who died at the hands of a rogue police officer.

The name, George Floyd, has become synonymous with an ever-increasing demand for justice in a country that has practically denied and historically ignored the cries for justice from Black people. For decades, Black people have been the victims of racism, police brutality, systematic oppression, disenfranchisement, racial disparity in the criminal justice system, and even murder.

George Floyd has impacted the world and has seemingly awakened the souls of many people across the globe, many of whom, have traditionally ignored the pleas and turned a blind eye to the historical plight of Black people in the U.S. Whether you knew George Floyd personally as a friend; knew him as a classmate; knew him as a student; knew him as an athlete; knew him as a fellow athlete; knew him as a mentor; knew him as a man of faith; knew him as a relative; knew him in the Third Ward community or in the Cuney Homes, where he was raised; knew him at Jack Yates High School, where he helped lead his football team to the 1992 State Championship game with his heroic gamesmanship; whether you were a classmate that graduated with him in 1993 from Jack Yates High School; or whether you never knew George Floyd at all; George Floyd has impacted the entire world.

The name, George Floyd, will not just be relegated to the tragic event that happened to him on May 25th, when that rogue, White police officer pressed his knee into his neck for those 8 minutes and 46 seconds during his arrest and murdered him while three other officers watched.

At Jack Yates High School, there is a rich legacy and history, not just in the Third Ward community or across the Greater Houston

area, but across the globe. George Floyd loved Jack Yates, whose mascot is the Lion, and as the members of his alumni have stated, although he is a fallen Lion, he will NEVER be a forgotten Lion. Many cities, states and countries, lit up their government buildings and other buildings across the world in his school’s colors of Crimson and Gold. There have been many memorials, scholarships, murals, poems, songs and video tributes that will continue to keep his memory alive and on the minds of people across the world.

When you mention Houston, Texas, you have to remember George Floyd.

When you mention Houston’s Third Ward, you have to remember George Floyd.

When you mention the Cuney Homes, where he was raised, you have to remember George Floyd.

And, of course, when you mention Jack Yates High School, you have to remember George Floyd.

If ever there was a time for elected officials at the city, county, state and federal level to make drastic changes to the law enforcement agencies across this country, the time is now, because Black people have had “enough” of being ignored.

If ever there was a time for law enforcement agencies to “drain the swamp” and rid themselves of known problematic and/or rogue cops, the time is now, because Black people have had “enough” of the same old routine.

If ever there was a time for Americans to show more care and concern for Black people being targeted because of their race and murdered than they give to animals, especially dogs and cats; guns; the economy; having the freedom to roam the streets in the midst of a catastrophic and historic pandemic; or anything else that is cherished more than the lives of Black people in this country, the time is now, because Black people have had “enough” of being victims.

People often ask what the solutions to these issues are, and there are some things that elected officials across the country should strongly consider: • Performing annual psychological testing of law enforcement officials to ensure they are fit to carry out their duties, especially to use deadly force • Making sure every law enforcement official has insurance that is tied to their license to carry out their duties, so they have something to lose if they have to make a decision between committing a crime and feeding their families • Implementing mechanisms to identify problematic law enforcement officials and quickly remove them from the force, especially those with a history of excessive, unjustified violence force and shooting complaints, especially shooting of unarmed citizens • Showing and publicly exhibiting support for “Good Cops” who report Bad Cops • Implementing a Police Whistleblower Committee (PWC) to accept anonymous written complaints of police misconduct and promoting it • Implementing mandatory screening during the law enforcement hiring process to eliminate applicants who have ties to hate groups, or known racial bias towards minorities As a people with identifiable dark pigmentation, one of the primary things that Black people have consistently asked for, is for others to stop violently attacking, falsely accusing, blatantly discriminating against and to stop ignoring their pressing concerns and issues.

It is time for everyone to take a stand against systems and prejudices that hamper Black people from progressing in this country, and even staying alive, because Black people have had “more than enough” of damaging decisions, destructive policies, racist systems and violence.

Enough is enough!

(Jeffrey L. Boney is Houston Forward Times Associate Editor.)

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Don’t defund police, demand real reform There has been a growing call from activists for defunding the police since George Floyd died May 25 after a White officer pressed his knee into the handcuffed Black man’s neck, ignoring his “I can’t breathe” cries and holding it there even after Floyd stopped moving. His death sparked protests that spread nationwide.

The argument for defunding the police and creating new ways to provide public safety comes after years of seeing police reform efforts fail or fall short. Local governments have hired new police chiefs, fired officers for misconduct, added body cameras and taken other actions that have proved to not be enough to stop police brutality.

Now activists and even some elected officials are looking at defunding or disbanding police.

For example, Sunday, a majority of the members of the Minneapolis City Council said they support disbanding the city’s police department.

Nine of the council’s 12 members appeared with activists at a rally in a city park Sunday afternoon and vowed to end policing as the city currently knows it. Council member Jeremiah Ellison promised that the council would “dismantle” the department.

“It is clear that our system of policing is not keeping our communities safe,” said Lisa Bender, the council president. “Our efforts at incremental reform have failed, period.”

Bender’s frustration is understandable, especially since President Donald Trump and his top officials claim there’s no systemic racism in U.S. law enforcement agencies as Americans flood streets in protest.

But the call for defunding the police is counterproductive and plays into Trump’s hands. The call for defunding allows Trump to portray his Democratic opponents as reckless and willing to jeopardize public safety.

Defunding is not the answer.

What is needed are serious and comprehensive reforms in legislation, policies and procedures that will hold police officers accountable for brutality and address the problem of systemic racism in policing.

Monday, Democrats in Congress proposed a sweeping overhaul of police oversight and procedures that would be a significant step in the right direction.

The Justice in Policing Act would limit legal protections for police, create a national database of excessive-force incidents and ban police choke holds, among other changes, according to an early draft. It is the most ambitious change to law enforcement sought by Congress in years.

The package confronts several aspects of law enforcement accountability and practices that have come under criticism, especially as more and more police violence is captured on cellphone video and shared widely across the nation, and the world.

The proposed legislation would revise the federal criminal police misconduct statute to make it easier to prosecute officers who are involved in misconduct “knowingly or with reckless disregard.”

The package would also change “qualified immunity” protections for police “to enable individuals to recover damages when law enforcement officers violate their constitutional rights.”

The legislation would seek to provide greater oversight and transparency of police behavior in several ways. It would grant subpoena power to the Justice Department to conduct “pattern and practice” investigations of potential misconduct and help states conduct independent investigations. It would ban racial profiling and boost requirements for police body cameras.

And it would create a National Police Misconduct Registry, a database to try to prevent officers from transferring from one department to another with past misconduct undetected, the draft said.

“We cannot settle for anything less than transformative structural change,” said House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

She’s right.

The legislation is the most expansive effort in recent years to crack down at a federal level on policing practices across the U.S. But it is expected to face strong resistance from Republicans, police unions and local officials who don’t want Washington intervening in their policy-making.

Republicans should join Democrats in a bipartisan effort to address police brutality and systemic racism in policing in America.

In November, voters should support those who support serious police reform and oppose who those who stand in the way of change.

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(TriceEdneyWire.com)—While listening to the Republican presentation of its so-called Justice Act, I was disappointed. It was my hope their bill would come close to an acceptable resolution. One of the first things I heard from Senator Tim Scott, the only Black Republican Senator, was a plan for a study of 18 months. Don’t you just love the way Republicans turn such problems over to the only Black person in their group to resolve.

In this case, Senator Scott made it clear that Republicans are not racists!

Instead of coming up with real proposed changes on police use of force, no knock warrants, immunity and chokehold language like discourage the use was offered.

So much for the choking to death by police of George Floyd and Eric Garner or the death of Breonna Taylor. Their bill leaves a big loophole for having no action against renegade police. They want to document the police conduct and have the Justice Department establish de-escalation guidance. The bill aims to get better collection of data—as if we don’t have enough data to show what the problems are. As Congresswoman Karen Bass says, “We don’t need studies; we need action.”

Unfortunately, it falls far short of anything that could be considered a good start. They’re simply trying to diffuse the situation without any substantive change. In the Black community, we know all too well

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Senator Lindsey Graham angrily lectured us about what the Obama Administration didn’t do on the issue of police reform during his eight years in office without a word that mentioned all the times the Republicans, as they promised— tried to make him fail. Never mind that President Obama succeeded in a lot of things without help from Republicans, and on the things he succeeded, Republicans are still trying to undo.

Majority Leader Mitch McConnell actually said that Senator Scott, to their surprise, told them he had been stopped by the police! Have the Republicans been hiding under a log? Without even knowing what is in the House Democrats Bill, Mitch has already said the Democrats’ bill is “going nowhere.” So much for Republicans’ seriousness about police reform! Speaker Nancy Pelosi has tagged his remarks “disgraceful.” Indeed! We should hear from House Democrats soon.

Senators Cory Booker and Kamala Harris, on the other side of the aisle, presented a bill with eight pillars that Civil Rights organiza-

tions approve.

Meanwhile, Speaker Pelosi has given us hope on another subject.

She has ordered the removal of portraits of Confederate House Speakers from the U.S. Capitol immediately! At least somebody on Capitol Hill recognizes the horrible message sent to Black America having people in a place of honor whose very presence in a statue, a portrait or a name carved somewhere on government property, continues to be a racist act. Along with police brutality, those symbols must go if we’re ever to believe America is serious about equality under the law.

Nancy didn’t ask for yet another study for the removal of portraits.

She said remove now and demanded that it be done by the next day!

She said further, “As I have said, the halls of Congress are the very heart of our democracy. There is no room in the hallowed halls of Congress or in any place of honor for memorializing men who embody the violent bigotry and grotesque racism of the Confederacy…. The portraits of these men are symbols that set back our nation’s work to confront and combat bigotry. Our Congressional community has the sacred opportunity and obligation to make meaningful change to ensure that the halls of Congress reflect our highest ideals as Americans. Let us lead by example.”

(Dr. E. Faye Williams is National President of the National Congress of Black Women.)

We can’t let this moment pass (NNPA)—This week, I convened a bipartisan group of Senators to read aloud Martin Luther King Jr.’s “A Letter from a Birmingham Jail.” This was the second year I’ve done this, and I hope to make it an annual tradition. I was struck by the thought of Dr. King in a small, dirty jail cell writing in longhand on napkins and scraps of paper and newspaper to a group of ministers that were not hateful as much as they were questioning the need for action at that particular moment in 1963. We usually picture this man on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial eloquently and passionately describing his dream for America, or behind a pulpit in Memphis urging his audience to press forward, to not be discouraged in their quest for civil and equal rights because he had been to the mountaintop and he had seen the promised land. I was deeply moved by the reading, and felt it was critical in this moment that a United States Senator from the Deep South stand on the Senate floor and declare that Black Lives Matter.

The last few months have made the truths of being Black in America clear to all. We have watched as a pandemic killed Black people at the rate of almost two and half times that of other Americans. Not from a mutation of the virus but from an underfunded system that too often deprives Black Americans medical care for diabetes, heart disease and other health issues that are now described as pre-existing conditions. We have watched as Black-owned businesses failed at twice the rate of others, and unemployment for Black Americans rose faster and will

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As we witnessed the truths of the system and society revealed to us by the pandemic, we were met with a profoundly haunting video, which I need not describe and trigger the pain it has caused.

George Floyd’s cries of ‘I can’t breathe’ were not just the cries of an innocent man pleading for his life, but the cries of so many of our fellow Americans that are killed by police, choked by a healthcare system that denies them access to quality healthcare, and in Dr. King’s words are smothered in “an airtight cage of poverty,” who cannot breath the fresh air of affordable housing, education and economic opportunities. They are the cries of Black Americans who simply have to hold their own breath when they themselves or their sons and their daughters venture away from their home fearing a police encounter that will take their life.

Maybe even more so than the dogs or fire hoses in Birmingham or the beatings on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama the video of George Floyd’s last moments were a confluence of events that gave our nation an image of itself that it could no longer bear.

I truly believe that the soul of America has come to the streets

of America, looking for a way for all of her people to live in a more just society. We are finally coming to understand that, “What affects one directly, affects us all indirectly.” That we see in this moment how poverty and economic disparities are connected. And how the poor and lower income in Alabama and the Deep South, both Black and White, are connected, as both suffer from healthcare, educational and economic disparities. It’s why in this moment it’s so important to reject those voices looking to divide us. We must come together to end racial injustice, but also the injustice of too many Alabamians and people in the South— struggling, poor and low income.

As a people, as a Congress, we cannot let this moment pass.

Surely reforms are needed, but the greater need is not just to reform but to transform, to make a dramatic change in the nature and character of our institutions towards a more just government and society.

Since our country’s inception we have said the words “all are created equal”, we have pledged that we are a nation for all—not for some —all, but we know that we have never lived up to that ideal. We all know it. In response to the protests that are taking place across this country today where voices and t-shirts and facemasks proclaim and insist that Black Lives Matter, and of course they do, but we will not be a country where we are all truly equal and where justice is for all until we can all say the words Black Lives Matter and mean it. That is my pledge, and I pray America joins me.

(U.S. Senator Doug Jones-D-AL)

On Juneteenth, honor the memory of those who have lost their lives to racial violence (TriceEdneyWire.com)—“The people of Texas are informed that in accordance with a Proclamation from the Executive of the United States, all slaves are free. This involves an absolute equality of rights and rights of property between former masters and slaves, and the connection heretofore existing between them becomes that between employer and free laborer.”—General Order No. 3 as read

by Maj. Gen. Gordon Granger, Galveston, Texas, June 19, 1865 Contrary to recent claims by President Trump, the holiday of Juneteenth was quite well known before this year.

It’s true that most people don’t learn about Juneteenth in school. Currently, only Texas recognizes it as a state holiday. But most major cities have held Juneteenth celebrations for decades. The popular ABC sitcom Black-ish brought Juneteenth into the mainstream of pop culture in 2017 with a widely-celebrated musical episode in the tradition of Schoolhouse Rock.

And it is true that Juneteenth has taken on a special significance this year, and not only because President Trump awkwardly scheduled a campaign rally for the day in Tulsa, the site of the worst incident of racial violence in American history.

On May 31 and June 1, 1921, White mobs incensed at Black financial achievement in the Greenwood District

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To Be Equal —also known as “Black Wall Street” — rampaged through the neighborhood killing men and burning and looting stores and homes. A 2001 report estimated that as many as 300 people died. About 10,000 Black people were left homeless, and property damage amounted to more than $1.5 million in real estate and $750,000 in personal property (equivalent to $32.25 million in 2019). Their property was never recovered nor were they compensated for it.

The campaign rally was rescheduled.

While the last several weeks have been riven with conflict as demonstrators express anguish over racially-motivated police killings, most of the country seems to be awakening to a greater cultural sensitivity and the need for intense anti-racism activism. Celebration of Juneteenth, a commemoration of the end of legal slavery in America, is part of this awakening.

State workers in New York and Virgin-

ia will have the day off, and governors Andrew Cuomo and Ralph Northam want to make the day a state holiday.

Most major corporations, including the NFL, Mastercard, Lyft and Uber, have made the day a paid holiday, as have media companies such as New York Times, The Washington Post and Vox Media have also made Juneteenth a company holiday.

The National Urban League, too, has designated Juneteenth an official paid holiday.

Growing up with parents who were civil rights activists in the late 1960s and early 1970s, my family celebrated Juneteenth, along with Emancipation Day celebrations on Jan. 1 and Watch Night parties on New Year’s Eve. Enthusiasm for Juneteenth seemed to wane after Martin Luther King Day became a federal holiday in 1983. The burgeoning interest in the celebration could be a positive sign, but the symbolism is not a substitute for the efforts that need to be made to reform our policing system, our criminal justice system, and the economic and education inequities in America.

Passing the Justice in Policing Act is one way to honor the memory not only of our enslaved ancestors, but the victims in Tulsa and all those who have lost their lives to racially-motivated violence.

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PNC BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION ATTN: SHARON L WHITNEY, VP 300 FIFTH AVE, FL 31 PITTSBURGH, PA 15222 And/or: TRACEY L. ZIHMER, ESQ. 3244 WASHINGTON ROAD SUITE 210, MCMURRAY, PA 15317 Estate of RUTH S. GABELHART a/k/a RUTH ELIZABETH GABELHART, Deceased of Bridgeville, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania No.02-20-02781, Scott W. Gabelhart, Executor, 1064 Elizabeth Drive, McMurray, PA 15317 or to Robin L. Rarie, Atty; BRENLOVE & FULLER, LLC, 401 Washington Avenue Bridgeville, PA 15017 Estate of SZLEC PATRICIA ANN a/k/a SZELC PATRICIA A, Deceased of Shalet Township No.02556 of 2020, Brian J. Szelc, Executor, 246 Corey Dr., Gibsonia, PA 15044 or to Micheal J. Saldamarco, ESQ., Attys; STE. 100, 908 Perry Hwy. Pittsburgh, PA 15229

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HOUSING AUTHORITY OF THE CITY OF PITTSBURGH’S BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS MONTHLY MEETING In accordance with the State of Emergency in the City of Pittsburgh, declared by Mayor William Peduto, to reduce the spread of COVID-19, the Housing Authority of the City of Pittsburgh’s Board of Commissioners will hold its monthly meeting for June on June 25, 2020, as scheduled at 10:30 a.m. on a remote basis. The meeting will be held remotely, with public access to be provided online. HACP will provide a direct link to a livestream of the meeting, and instruction on how to make a public comment. Details will be made available on http://www.hacp.org, in advance of the meeting.

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THE URBAN ACADEMY OF GREATER PITTSBURGH CHARTER SCHOOL SPECIAL BOARD OF TRUSTEES MEETING The Urban Academy of Greater Pittsburgh Charter School will be holding a Special Board of Trustees Meetings on the ZOOM virtual meeting platform to approve the school’s reopening plan. www.zoom.com | Meeting ID: 395 278 951 SPECIAL TRUSTEE MEETING 9:30 AM Call to Order & Public Comment June 26, 2020 Requests to speak at the public hearing will be accepted beginning one week prior to the date of the hearing until noon of the day of the meeting. Call 412.361.1008 ext 207 to register. Each speaker will be limited to three minutes of uninterrupted testimony.

ALLEGHENY COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES PUBLIC MEETINGS/ HEARINGS ON HUMAN SERVICE BLOCK GRANT APPLICATION The Allegheny County Department of Human Services (DHS) is preparing the 2020-2021 Human Services Block Grant Plan. There will be two virtual public meetings to talk about the plan and its implementation. Join us on Monday, June 29 at 4:30 p.m. or Tuesday, June 30 at 4:30 p.m.

To learn how you can participate, visit https://bit.ly/2N5AVCX. Send your questions, comments, and ideas to DHS-Ideas@AlleghenyCounty.US or via the Q&A during the live meeting.

Allegheny County DHS makes reasonable efforts to accommodate people with disabilities or limited nglish proficiency. losed captioning will be available when joining the meeting on a PC or Mac. Captioning languages will include English, Spanish, Chinese, and Arabic.

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LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL ACHA-1632, Financial (Accounting) Consulting Services The Allegheny County Housing Authority is requesting proposals from qualified firms individuals to perform Financial (Accounting) Consulting Services.

Request for Proposals and Contract Documents are on file and may be obtained, at no charge, in the Finance Department of the Allegheny County Housing Authority, Pleasant Ridge Community Center, 251 Jefferson Drive, McKees Rocks, PA 15136, or by contacting the ACHA at (412) 4022435, or via email at gphillips@achsng.com.

A pre-proposal conference will be held on Tuesday, June 30, 2020 at 2:00 p.m. at the Pleasant Ridge Community Center. Proposals will be due Monday, July 20, 2020 at 11:00 a.m., at the address listed above.

The Allegheny County Housing Authority encourages responses from small firms, minority firms and firms that have not previously performed work for the ACHA. The Allegheny County Housing Authority reserves the right to reject any and all bids or waive any informality in the Proposals. No proposals shall be withdrawn for a period of at least sixty (60) days subsequent to the opening of the proposals without the consent of ACHA. ALLEGHENY COUNTY HOUSING AUTHORITY Frank Aggazio, Executive Director

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SECTION 00100 – BID ADVERTISEMENT Table of Articles Article 1 – Advertisement Article 2 – Pre-Bid Conference Article 3 – Pre-Bid Tour Article 4 – Public Opening of Bids ARTICLE 1 – ADVERTISEMENT PORT AUTHORITY OF ALLEGHENY COUNTY ADVERTISEMENT Separate sealed Bids for the Work as listed hereinafter will be received at the Purchasing and Materials Management Department of Port Authority of Allegheny County (Authority) Heinz 57 Center, 345 Sixth Avenue, Third Floor, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 15222-2527 until 1:30 p.m. on July 20, 2020 and will be publicly opened and read immediately thereafter at the same address and via teleconference (855-453-6957 ID code # 4485786). Please call David Hart at (412) 566-5415 prior to arriving at this location. All participants must provide and wear a mask at all times and maintain minimum social distancing of 6 feet between other individuals. Each Bidder shall be solely responsible for assuring that its Bid is both received and time stamped by a representative of the Purchasing and Materials Management Department at or before the advertised time for submission of Bids. Bids received or time stamped in the Purchasing and Materials Management Department after the advertised time for the submission of Bids shall be non-responsive and therefore ineligible for Award.

CENTRAL BUSINESS DISTRICT TUNNEL LIGHTING AND CONDUIT REPLACEMENT CONTRACT NO. SYS-20-02 The Work of this Project includes, but is not limited to, the furnishing of all supervision, material, equipment, tools and labor for the installation of new tunnel LED luminaires with stainless steel conduit, tunnel emergency blue lights, power receptacles and associated hardware in the Central Business District Tunnel.

Bid Documents will be available for public inspection and may be obtained on or after Friday, June 19, 2020 at Authority s offices at the following address: Port Authority of Allegheny County Purchasing and Materials Management Department Heinz 57 Center 345 Sixth Avenue, Third Floor Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15222-2527 If you are picking up bid documents please call Kim Zelen at (412) 566-5151 prior to arriving at this location. All participants must provide and wear a mask at all times and practice minimum social distancing of 6 fee between other individuals.

Bid Documents are available for purchase as follows: Bid Documents are available in an electronic form on compact disk upon payment of $15 per CD. Payment shall be by check or money order (NO CASH), payable to “Port Authority of Allegheny County.” No refunds of payment will be made.

Upon request, Bid Documents can be mailed upon receipt of payment in full.

Should the purchaser wish to have the Bid Documents delivered via special delivery, such as UPS or Federal Express, the purchaser shall provide its appropriate account numbers for such special delivery methods.

This Project may be funded, in part, by, and subject to certain requirements of, the County of Allegheny and/or the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

Authority, in compliance with 74 Pa.C.S. § 303, as may be amended, require that certified Diverse Businesses ( DBs ) have the ma imum opportunity to participate in the performance of contracts and subcontracts for this Project.

In this regard, all Bidders shall make good faith efforts in accordance with 74 Pa.C.S. § 303, to ensure that DBs have the maximum opportunity to compete for and perform contracts. Bidders shall also not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, age, disability, national origin, sexual origin, gender identity or status as a parent in the award and performance of contracts for this Project. If aid is required to involve DBs in the Work, Bidders are to contact Authority’s DB Program Manager at (412) 566-5257.

The Bidder’s attention is directed to the following contacts for Bidder’s questions: Procedural Questions Regarding Bidding: David Hart - Authority (412) 566-5415 All other questions relating to the Bid Documents must be submitted by mail or email to: Port Authority of Allegheny County Heinz 57 Center 345 Sixth Avenue, Third Floor Pittsburgh, PA 15222-2527 Attn: David Hart dhart@portauthority.org In addition, the Bidder’s attention is directed to the following schedule of activities for preparation of its Bid: 9:00 AM Pre-Bid Conference July 1, 2020 Port Authority of Allegheny County Via Teleconference: Number 855-453-6957 ID code # 4485786 (Attendance is not mandatory, but strongly recommended) 1:00 PM Pre-Bid Site Tour July 1, 2020 Steel Plaza Station Plaform All Participants must wear safety vests and proper footwear, mask & practice social distancing. Depending on group Size, participants may have to take turns touring site.

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Bids Due July 20, 2020 Purchasing and Materials Management Department When dropping off your bid please call David Hart at (412) 566-5415 prior to arriving at the Heinz 57 Building. All participants must provide and wear a mask at all times and practice minimum social distancing between other individuals.

Authority reserves the right to reject any or all Bids ARTICLE 2 – PRE-BID CONFERENCE A Pre-Bid Conference may be held with prospective Bidders to review the Bid Documents and generally discuss the Project. The time and place will be specified in the Advertisement. All Bidders are encouraged to submit their questions in writing to the respective individuals listed in the Advertisement prior to the time specified in the Advertisement for the Pre-Bid onference. A response may be provided during the Pre-Bid Conference or by Addendum thereafter.

ARTICLE 3 – PRE-BID TOUR If a site tour is to be conducted covering the area(s) of the Work, it will be held at the date and time indicated in the Advertisement.

ARTICLE 4 – PUBLIC OPENING OF BIDS Bids will be publicly opened and announced at the advertised time and place set for such Bid opening.

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ALLEGHENY COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA June 15, 2020 The ffice of the ounty ontroller of Allegheny ounty, Room 10 , ourt ouse, Pittsburgh, PA, will receive separate and sealed Bids on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 10:00 A.M. until 2:00PM and FR 10:00 A.M. until 11:00 A.M. prevailing local time, Wednesday, July 15, 2020 and a representative of the Department of Public orks will open and read the Bids in onference Room1, ounty ourt ouse, Pittsburgh, PA, one half hour later, 11:30 o’clock A.M., for the following: DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS BETHEL CHURCH ROAD LATERAL SUPPORT AT ALTON DRIVE MUNICIPALITY OF BETHEL PARK COUNTY PROJECT No. 5028-0102 As a prospective bidder please note the following general Project information regarding: Pre Bid Information, Bidding Requirements, and ontract onditions. See the Project anual for detailed information, responsibilities and instructions.

PRE BID INFORMATION: Purchase and or view the Project anual and Drawings at the ffice of the ontract anager, Room 50 , ounty ffice Building, Pittsburgh, PA. The non refundable charge for the Proposal and a disk containing the Specifications and Drawings is 10 .00 including sales ta . The ontract anager will accept only check or money order to the TY F A G Y in that amount and I TA PT AS R T D R DIT. Prospective bidders may request to have bid documents mailed. An additional fee of 16.05 including ta , for handling costs for each requested proposal must be paid in advance. The fee must be received at the ffice of the ontract anager prior to the mailing of any documents.

Interested bidders planning to purchase bid documents or attend the public bid opening are advised to follow Self- onitoring and Social Distancing guidelines when entering the Allegheny ounty ourthouse or ounty ffice Building. Interested bidders should also be aware that when entering either the Allegheny ounty ourthouse or ounty ffice Building, a face mask meeting the guidelines set by the Pennsylvania Department of ealth, must be worn at all times.

BIDDING REQUIREMENTS: The ounty requires pre-qualification of bidders, including subcontractors, as specified in Section 102.01 of ommonwealth of Pennsylvania Department of Transportation Specifications, Publication o. 0 , 2016 dition, hange o. , ffective October 4, 2019 on this project.

Submit Proposal on the supplied form in accordance with the Instructions to Bidders and Specifications; include the following documents with the Bid Form, ALONG WITH ONE COMPLETE PHOTOCOPIED SET OF THE PROPOSAL: Bid Security - certified check or surety company bond on ounty s form to the order of or running to the ounty of Allegheny in the amount of five (5 ) percent of the Bid as evidence that you, the Bidder, will accept and carry out the conditions of the ontract in case of award. The ounty will accept only bonds written by Surety ompanies acceptable on Federal Bonds per the current Federal Register ircular 5 0. Federal Register ircular 5 0 is available for inspection in the ontract ffice, Room 50 , ounty ffice Building, Pittsburgh, PA 15219.

Bidder ertification of Pre-Qualification, lassification and ork apacity ist of Subcontractors Statement of oint enture Participation B And B Goals Attainment ertification (ONLY NECESSARY IF YOU CANNOT MEET THE SPECIFIED MBE AND WBE GOALS.) B B Subcontractor and Supplier ommitment and Solicitation Sheets ork Sheet Required Amount Performed By ontractor ( on-Federal Projects) T TY I R T BIDS T AT D TI D T T D D TS SP IFI D AB IT T BID F R . You may not withdraw your bid for a period of Si ty (60) days after the scheduled closing time for receipt of bids. The ounty anager reserves the right to reject any and all bids or waive any informality in the bidding.

CONTRACT CONDITIONS: In accordance with the provisions of the Pennsylvania Prevailing age Act of August 15, 1961, P. . 9 , as Department of abor and Industry, the prevailing minimum wage predetermination requirements as set forth in the Attachments apply to this Project.

The anticipated notice to proceed is August 17, 2020. The project completion will be 0 consecutive calendar days the from notice to proceed.

The ounty of Allegheny hereby notifies all bidders that it will affirmatively ensure that in any contract entered into pursuant to this Advertisement, minority business enterprises women business enterprises B B will be afforded the full opportunity to submit bids in response to this advertisement and the ounty will not discriminate against minority and women business enterprises on the grounds of race, se , color or national origin in consideration for an award. It is a condition of the bidding process contract that all responsive bidders contractors shall follow the minority business enterprises and women business enterprises B B procedures set forth in the project manual contract documents.

For technical questions contact en rbanec, P. ., Project anager, at 1250-12 . For contracting questions contact Dan Swisher, ontracts anager, at 12- 50-5955 or 592 .

Chelsa Wagner Controller Allegheny

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HOUSING AUTHORITY OF THE CITY OF PITTSBURGH REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL (RFP) FOR PROJECT BASED VOUCHERS 2020 RFP#125-19-20 The ousing Authority of the ity of Pittsburgh ( A P) hereby request proposals from qualified Firms or Individuals capable of providing the following service(s): Project Based Vouchers 2020 RFP #125-19-20 The documents will be available no later than June 15, 2020 and signed, sealed proposals will be accepted until 11:00 A.M. on July 9, 2020 at which time they will be Time and Date Stamped at 100 Ross Street 2nd Floor, Suite 200, Pittsburgh, PA 15219.

Parties or individuals interested in responding may download a copy of the Solicitation from the Business pportunities page of www.HACP. org.

Questions or inquires should be directed to: Mr. Kim Detrick Housing Authority of the City of Pittsburgh Procurement Department 100 Ross Street 2nd Floor, Suite 200 Pittsburgh, PA 15219 412-643-2832 A pre-submission meeting will be held via call in; on June 25, 2020 at 11:00 A.M. Please see call in information below: Join the audio conference by phone: United States - Washington, DC +1.202.602.1295 Access Code 598-776-271# The ousing Authority of the ity of Pittsburgh strongly encourages certified minority business enterprises and women business enterprises to respond to this solicitation.

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Caster D. Binion, Executive Director Housing Authority of the City of Pittsburgh

HOUSING AUTHORITY OF THE CITY OF PITTSBURGH REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL (RFP) FOR HOUSING CHOICE VOUCHER (HCV) LANDLORD MARKETING RFP#400-20-20 The ousing Authority of the ity of Pittsburgh ( A P) hereby request proposals from qualified Firms or Individuals capable of providing the following service(s): HOUSING CHOICE VOUCHER (HCV) LANDLORD MARKETING RFP #400-20-20 The documents will be available no later than June 22, 2020 and signed, sealed proposals will be accepted until 10:00 A.M. on July 14, 2020 at which time they will be Time and Date Stamped at 100 Ross Street 2nd Floor, Suite 200, Pittsburgh, PA 15219.

Parties or individuals interested in responding may download a copy of the Solicitation from the Business pportunities page of www.HACP.org.

Questions or inquires should be directed to: Mr. Kim Detrick Housing Authority of the City of Pittsburgh Procurement Department 100 Ross Street 2nd Floor, Suite 200 Pittsburgh, PA 15219 412-643-2832 A pre-submission meeting will be held via call in; on July 2, 2020 at 10:00 A.M. Please see call in information below: Join the audio conference by phone: United States - Washington, DC +1.202.602.1295 Access Code 598-776-271# The ousing Authority of the ity of Pittsburgh strongly encourages certified minority business enterprises and women business enterprises to respond to this solicitation.

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HOUSING AUTHORITY OF THE CITY OF PITTSBURGH NOTICE OF PROPOSED CHANGES TO THE HOMEOWNERSHIP PROGRAM PLAN JUNE 22, 2020 The ousing Authority of the ity of Pittsburgh ( A P) is requesting to add additional guidance to the omeownership Program Plan, listed as an attachment to the oving To ork ( T ) Annual Plan, requiring participants to reduce the amount borrowed from the 1st mortgage lender in order to achieve an affordable omeownership pense Payment as defined by the A P, and to utili e the full amount of additional, deferred payment mortgages, prior to applying A P assistance to the transaction, if applicable.

In addition, the A P is requesting to add the guidance advising that participants must utili e a licensed professional to assist with their purchase including, but not limited to, drafting sales contracts and to change the soft second mortgage from a forgivable mortgage to a Shared Appreciation ortgage (SA ) for households that may be eligible to receive more than 52,000 subsidy to achieve an affordable omeownership pense Payment. The A P s second deferred payment mortgage will be forgiven at a rate of 10 each year up to 52,000. For participants, whose deferred mortgage loan amounts e ceed 52,000, the term will be for 99 years and a share of the home s appreciation is due upon resale for the portion of the loan that is in e cess of 52,000.

Finally, the A P is requesting to add a subordination policy statement to the omeownership Plan, and to add a statement clarifying the clause that buyer is not responsible for repairs that is required on the sales contract.

DATES AVAILABLE FOR REVIEW: June 22 – July 22, 2020 Proposed changes can be reviewed on the A P website at www.hacp.org; or, copies of the proposed changes can be requested via mail or email by contacting: DeAnna.Vaughn@hacp.org The A P will hold a meeting to receive public comments via oom on July 22, 2020, from 12 to 1 p.m., and from 5:30 to 6 p.m. The A P will gather all comments and review them at the close of the comment period. All written comments will be retained by the A P and shall be available for inspection upon request.

All requests should be made to Deanna.Vaughn@hacp.org PROPOSED EFFECTIVE DATE OF IMPLEMENTATION: AUGUST 1, 2020 f ou h e s e i uestions regarding the proposed changes to the Homeownership Program Plan, please contact DeAnna Vaughn at 412-643-2808 or DeAnna.Vaughn@hacp.org If you are a person with a disability and need assistance, please contact the A P Disability ompliance ffice at 12- 56-52 2.

HACP conducts business in accordance with all federal, state, and local civil rights laws, including but not limited to Title VII, the Fair Housing Act, Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, the Americans with Disabilities Act, The PA Human Relations Act, etc. and does not discriminate against any individuals protected by these statutes.

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Looters, lowlifes, and liars (TriceEdneyWire.com)—According to the Washington Post, the 45th President told 19,126 lies between his inauguration in 2017 and June 1, 2020.

By now, the number has likely edged toward 20,000, as his Tulsa “rally” yielded dozens more. This President has no allegiance to the truth, but that’s no surprise. Leading up to his ill-timed gathering, amid the coronavirus, he projected more than a million attendees. Instead, the Trump campaign could not even fill the 19,000-seat stadium. And because the Trump campaign has no one to blame but itself for its spotty turnout, 45 instead blamed “bad people,” the media, and others.

The President’s bizarre bloviating was more evidence of his instability, but also illustrated his venom toward a sizeable portion of the people he purportedly represents. I was especially struck by his constant ridicule of “looters and lowlifes,” wondering if he comprehended the similarities between the behavior he would describe as “looters and lowlifes” with his conduct in office. Not only has he derided “looters and lowlifes,” but he has also threatened the full force of federal law enforcement to threaten people’s legal right to protest. As soon as he uttered those threatening words, 45 was a looter who threatened the civil rights and civil liberties of lawful protestors who have legitimate complaints against nationwide police brutality.

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Commentary Who’s looting who? If we carefully examine history, it is clear that Black people have been looted (defined as “stealing good from a place, typically in a war or riot”). From my perspective, Black people have been at war with White supremacy forces as long as we have been on thee hoes. We have been subject to violence, exploitation, expropriation of fair compensation of our wages, further exploited through Jim Crow, and other laws. There are documented cases of economically envious looting Black communities (Wilmington, Tulsa, Rosewood) because of economic envy, plundering our homes, and then using the power of the majority media to turn a Massacre into a “riot.” Accounts from Tulsa 1921 survivor document a massacre, not a riot.

All it took to light the match was Black men standing to speak up for themselves.

White folks could not stand Black self-determination or Black wealth.

They destroyed the thriving Greenwood in 1921, but Black men and women are still standing up for ourselves. That’s why folks have taken it to the streets, protesting night after night, wearing shirts that say “Black Lives Matter” and “I Can’t Breathe.”

They aren’t just Black folks. If you have a heart, it could not help but shatter just a bit when you saw the inexcusable 8:46 minute knee to George Floyd’s neck.

If I could have just 3 minutes with Mr. Trump, I’d like to ask him, “Who’s looting who.” Changing the tax code to benefit your friends and the wealthy are looting the rest of us. Taking food from hungry people is another form of looting. Losing tax dollars to support your decrepit lifestyle and multiple golf trips is looting. Taking money from public schools to help your pet private schools is stealing. You see looting when people set fires and break windows. Why don’t you think about the fire that ran people out of Greenwood, the broken windows that destroyed Black presses, the looting that has stolen Black wealth?

And then there is the term “lowlife.”

The dictionary describes such folks as people who have “low social status” or “low moral character.” So what kind of moral character does a man have who brags about grabbing women by their genitals? What kind of moral character does a man have who derides people because of their race or gender?

What kind of person calls people he disagrees with “sons of bitches.” He doesn’t’ know their mamas, but he has insulted them. At 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, the House that Enslaved People Built, our tax dollars are housing the Lowlife in Chief. We have endured over three years of this man’s venom, vituperation, name calling, and contempt of the people who are merely exercising First Amendment rights by taking it to the streets.

Many of the so-called “looters and lowlifes” are descended of enslaved people who have had enough. I stand with the looters and lowlifes, the people who, in the shadow of the poet Langston Hughes, ask, “What happened to a dream deferred.” It explodes. Since 1619, since 1865, since 1964, it has been exploding. Still? I stand with the looters and lowlifes and reject a man whose unfamiliarity with truth is a vexation, abomination, and a despicable affront to decency.

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Banning the banned chokehold During the 2000 presidecade, the Ferguson and J. Pharoah Doss dential race, civil rights Baltimore riots, and the organizations demanded fact that George W. Bush a federal ban on racial didn’t issue the racial profiling. Democrat Al profiling ban through an Gore said, racial profilexecutive order rendering ing ran counter to what it toothless to his critics, the United States was all then it would appear about, and if entrusted President Trump’s going with the presidency, endin the right direction ing racial profiling would be the first by immediately banning chokeholds civil rights act of the 21st century. through an executive order.

Republican George W. Bush said, “we Now, if you start from 1980 and end have to do everything we can to end at the 2003 racial profiling ban, you’ll racial profiling, but I don’t want to conclude there’s been improvement in federalize the police.” policing.

Bush won the presidency and issued According to The New York Times in the first ban on racial profiling in 1980, Los Angeles was under threat 2003. Now, I’m going to use the racial of several lawsuits and their police profiling ban as a starting point to department banned the use of one sympathize with President Trump’s lethal chokehold—called the bar-arm recent executive order banning choke- hold. Many large police departments holds except if the officer’s life is at followed suit. They also banned or risk. Then I’m going to use the racial restricted less dangerous neck reprofiling ban as an ending point to straints. In 1993, after concerns of a draw a different conclusion. rising number of deaths in police cusIf you start from 2003 and leap tody over an eight-year period, New to the 2020 police killing of George York’s police department issued an Floyd in Minneapolis, you’ll conclude order banning chokeholds. The New America’s police problems got worse.

York ban came as police departments America went from banning racial nationwide prohibited various chokeprofiling to banning chokeholds after holds. But the New York Commisa handcuffed Black man died from sioner said, the chokehold ban was a White police officer’s knee on his not a new policy, but a clarification of neck. Immediately following George a 1985 order that stated chokeholds Floyd’s death, protests and riots will not be routinely used except if erupted across the country. Accordthe officer’s life was in danger. ing to the USA Today, the way the New York’s 1993 chokehold ban Minneapolis police officer restrained offered no exceptions.

George Floyd is widely discredited New York’s police chief added that by law enforcement experts, but the New York City has not trained police technique was allowed in Minneapcadets in the use of chokeholds for olis. The Minneapolis Police Departat least 10 years. Professor James ment allowed the use of two types of J. Fyfe, who studied police brutalineck restraints as “non-deadly” force ty, said he had no statistics on how options for officers who received the many police departments had chokeproper training. (All of the protests hold bans, but 15 of the largest police should have been centered around forces had bans in place. Fyfe added, eliminating the two neck restraints “anything that happens in policing and the “proper training” to use them. in New York and Los Angeles will be But George Floyd became the catalyst copied by other police departments.” for what BLM co-founder, Patrisse If you look at policing from this Cullors, called the new abolitionist direction it went from banning movement where police and prisons chokeholds to banning racial profilare no longer weaponized as tools for ing, and from this direction President public safety.)

Trump’s executive order seems like If you throw in police shootings of redundant reform to pacify clueless unarmed Black men during the past reactionaries.

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Life after high school in a post-COVID-19 world

by Renée Cardwell Hughes Graduation season is upon us. This is the season of celebration. This is the time to celebrate all that our students have achieved. It is a time to celebrate the next phase of their young lives.

Yet high school students today face a future that is radically different than many of them imagined. Many of the traditional paths are not available to today’s graduates because of the global pandemic. Preparing graduates for a post COVID-19 world requires, resilience, adaptability and flexibility.

In December 2019, the national unemployment rate was 3.5 percent.

Before the global COVID-19 pandemic, the job market was the best it has been in 50 years. Today, the unemployment rate is 14.75 percent and it continues to rise. Many economists predicate that America is heading into a depression. Choices that students made just a few short months ago now seem unrealistic.

The best path forward for graduating seniors in a recession is often to continue their education. Yet colleges have also been severely impacted by COVID-19. It is not clear whether some colleges will open this fall or will instead operate virtually or will open with a combination of virtual and physical classes.

As a result, some students have decided not to attend college this fall but rather will take a gap year to explore other opportunities. These graduates now join the ranks of other students who do not see college as the immediate path forward. Whether a young person chooses college, vocational/ technical school or the military, post-secondary education will broaden their career choices and increase their income potential.

It can take a sluggish economy 18 months to two years to recover. The additional complicating factors of the pandemic shutdown and the riots arising from the protests for justice means that we are experiencing an economic vortex for which we have no play book for recovery.

Despite these daunting circumstances, the best path forward and the best advice to give your graduate is to invest in yourself. Education and job training ensure that when the opportunity occurs your graduate will be ready.

Although the short-term outlook on the economy looks bleak, this season will pass. Now is the time to prepare for the jobs of today and tomorrow.

The options are varied. Post-secondary education takes many forms. For example:

College or community college For many high school students, college is the most direct path to the future. Community college or a four-year university offer a broad set of skills that increase in value over time.

A bachelor’s degree is often a prerequisite to many high-paying career paths. This choice takes time and money to pursue. It is also not timebarred. If you cannot go to college today, it is never too late to get your degree.

Military service The Armed Forces provides superior and often cutting-edge training for many careers. Many careers are created in the military and then transitioned to the civilian economy.

For example, Geographical Information Systems or GIS is a technology that was created by the military and is now used by every industry.

The leadership opportunities in the military are second to none. It is also a great way to pay for post-secondary education. The GI Bill covers tuition for undergraduate and higher-level degrees.

Vocational and technical school Industry certifications obtained from technical or vocational schools are available for banking, energy, hospitality, culinary arts, environmental services, automotive repair, facilities management, information technology, dental hygienists, HVAC technicians, welders, medical technicians and various other careers. Many certification programs can be obtained in less than a year.

Apprenticeship An apprenticeship involves job-based learning. It is a paid career-training program and frequently involves traditional classroom instruction in addition to on-the-job training.

Apprenticeships are most common in the construction trades, but are also available in manufacturing, health care, finance, telecommunications and transportation.

Volunteer Volunteering for a not-for-profit organization is a great way to contribute to the community and to enhance your skills. Charitable organizations are often short-handed and welcome people with energy and commitment.

Volunteering is a way to gain experience and position yourself for a paid position.

Tough times do not last forever. The economy will flourish once again.

While it may be more challenging in a post-COVID-19 world, these options will provide your graduate with a road map for a career that is rewarding and impactful.

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Too many African American children are born in shackles (TriceEdneyWire.com)—“I can’t breathe,” pled George Floyd in Minneapolis and Erik Garner in New York City and Javier Ambler in Austin, Texas, before police killed them.

Amid the protests against brutality, Rayshard Brooks in Atlanta, whom police found asleep in his car, was shot twice in the back and killed.

In Austin, Justin Howell lies in critical condition in the hospital, shot during a protest by a policeman using a “less-lethal weapon.” His mistake? He stood next to the demonstrator the policeman was shooting at.

And now, two young African American men, Robert Fuller and Malcolm Harsch, are found dead, hanging by their necks 50 miles from one another in California. Although the police initially dismissed the cases as suicide, they are now under investigation after a public outcry.

In the midst of a national uprising on racial justice, the possible lynching of two Black men should not be swept under the carpet.

For African Americans, poverty should not be a prison and skin color should not be a cage.

White supremacists disguised as police officers should not use us as target practice. Socalled “qualified immunity” must not shield killers from the law. Those with a shield and a badge must be held to the highest standards.

It is time to fulfill America’s promise of equal justice under the law.

As the demonstrations continue, the reality of the criminal injustice system that African Americans face every day keeps getting exposed. At the same time, the pandemic has exposed the systemic racial gaps that scar our society. Police serve as an occupying force in poor communities of color because those communities exist—often created by red-lining— worsened by savage inequality of schools and health care and job opportunity.

CNN recently detailed “Black-White Inequality in Six Stark Charts.” African Americans have barely 1/10th the median wealth of White families, a wider gap than at the beginning of the century. The disparity is primarily due to the differences in home ownership, where African Americans suffer from being locked out of so many neighborhoods for so long, and inheritance, where African Americans suffer the legacy of years of slavery and segregation.

The median income of African American families, at $41,000, is less than 60 percent of White families at $71,000, another gap that has grown worse since 2000. It was only last year that African American incomes exceed those in 2000, and that “progress” was wiped out in the pandemic.

Unemployment among African Americans generally is twice that of Whites. Today, official unemployment for Blacks is at 16.7 percent and for Whites, 14.2 percent. It’s that close because Blacks are disproportionately employed in frontline essential jobs — the postal service, mass transit, warehouses, grocery and drug stores, hospitals and nursing homes.

Poverty among African Americans, before the pandemic recession, was at 20.8 percent; for Whites, 8.1 percent. African Americans are 60 percent less likely to have health care at work than Whites.

Poverty, unemployment, low income, low savings all lead to vulnerability. African Americans are less likely to have adequate health insurance and more likely to have chronic illnesses. So African Americans, about 13.2 percent of the population, have suffered 23 percent of COVID-19 deaths.

Consider the shackles we put on too many African American children born into impoverished neighborhoods. Their mothers are less likely to have prenatal care; they are more likely to suffer death or injury at birth. They are less likely to have adequate nutrition; more likely to grow up in apartments with lead in the walls and pipes; less likely to have day care or pre-K. They go to public schools inequitable to those in the affluent suburbs.

They walk dangerous streets, where police too often provide not protection but a separate threat. And if they rise above that and go to college, they graduate with far higher student debt, into a job market that will pay them less than their white peers.

All of this is well known. None of it is accidental. Solutions are known but not adopted.

Racism is used to divide working and poor people, to protect those with privilege. Often, poor White families suffer simply because of the unwillingness to see tax dollars go to lift people of color from their misery.

For example, 14 states have refused to accept the federal government’s offer to pay for the expansion of Medicaid to cover poor working people. Not surprisingly, they are mostly states from the south: Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Oklahoma.

Economic violence snuffs out dreams and takes lives. Even as the demonstrations demand a reimagining of criminal justice, we need to demand a basic economic justice.

There is only one major reason why this rich country does not have the universal health care, good public schools, secure retirements, decent housing, adequate food—and that is racial injustice and the collateral damage it does to people of all races who are not affluent.

Now change is in the air and, more importantly, in the streets. New possibilities are open.

America is called once more, led by the passion of a young generation more diverse than ever, finally to begin to address the racism that increasingly endangers us all.

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“This is history in the making, but it is yours to make. Now go out there and make it.”

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YOU DID IT!!!

Let the record show that in spite of the worst pandemic our country has seen in more than 100 years, featuring an “invisible enemy” of a virus that’s shut down most graduation ceremonies, you will go down in history as the Class of 2020, the class that rose above, the class that persevered, the class that had that “stick with it.”

The New Pittsburgh Courier wanted to concoct a way to highlight this special class of graduates, and we asked you, our readers, to send in photos of your high school or college graduate from this year.

The response was overwhelming.

Mix in some schools that wanted to place their entire graduating class in this special edition, and there are more than 300 photos of local students highlighted!

No matter if you’re a high school or a college graduate, one thing’s for certain—Now is your time. The protests that we’ve seen here in Pittsburgh and across America due to the tragic death of George Floyd, most are led by the young people, just like you. Oftentimes, change is led by the young people.

Don’t ever think that you’re not ready to accomplish anything you want. If you’re going to leave your imprint on this world, there’s no need to delay.

Delays are for snow plows to remove the snow in the morning before school.

Delays are what you’d find on the parkway during rush hour traffic. Delays are for airplanes that must wait to take off due to inclement weather.

Delaying is not in your vocabulary. Now is your time.

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RENAJHA COOPER

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BARACK OBAMA ACADEMY OF INTERNATIONAL STUDIES

ASANTI RAY

KARSON A. KENNEDY

ELGIN BAYLOR OLIVER II

DOMINIC BROWN

MARTIN M. WHITE

CENTRAL CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL

GATEWAY HIGH SCHOOL

STEEL VALLEY HIGH SCHOOL

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TELIK MICHAEL JOHNSON

SKYLER NICHOLS

ABBY FOWLER

ALYSIA LEE

VINCENTIAN ACADEMY

IMANI CHRISTIAN ACADEMY

ALEXANDREA GUY-BING

VALLEY HIGH SCHOOL

BALDWIN HIGH SCHOOL

GATEWAY HIGH SCHOOL

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ERIN E. POTTER CARLOW UNIVERSITY

TONI MARIE MARTELLO WOODLAND HILLS HIGH SCHOOL

SAVANNA BLANCHARD STEEL VALLEY HIGH SCHOOL

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DENNIS FOY

SYDNEY GRAY

BARACK OBAMA ACADEMY OF INTERNATIONAL STUDIES

WEST MIFFLIN AREA HIGH SCHOOL

WINCHESTER THURSTON HIGH SCHOOL

MADISON MCKENZIE WARE

DOMINIQUE LEANN WILLIAMS

TYRA ROBINSON

DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY

CARLOW UNIVERSITY

COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK

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MICAH JAMES PIERCE JR.

PLUM SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL

JULIAN M. HALL

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CHAZ SMITH

CENTRAL CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL

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CITY CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL

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ALIYAH MCENHEIMER STEEL VALLEY HIGH SCHOOL

CALEB BROWN GROCE

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MORGEN DANIELS

KE’MON’TRELL KING

AMANTHA SCHOEN

CASSIUS PLUMMER-SMITH

AYJAHNAE CAIN

JAQUAYLA MCGRADY

JAKEILAI MONTEL

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ISAIAH ALONZO JONES-LANE

ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY

MAIA MACKENZIE JOINER

YASMINE LOGAN

ALLEGHENY COLLEGE

PENN HILLS HIGH SCHOOL

IVANNA EUBANKS

NIKKO A. JENKINS

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JADELYN CUNNINGHAM

MACAYLE N. WADE

MAKAILA N. WADE

NATEL BLESSITT

MCKENZIE THOMPSON

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BARACK OBAMA ACADEMY OF INTERNATIONAL STUDIES

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CIERA RUSSELL HAMPTON UNIVERSITY

DARYON MALIK GARDNER PENN HILLS HIGH SCHOOL

JAIDON BERRY STO-ROX HIGH SCHOOL

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COLLEGIATE DEGREES EARNED NAOMI RUTH ALLEN - POINT PARK UNIVERSITY, BACHELOR’S IN FINE ARTS, ACTING MARTIN M. WHITE - NORTHCENTRAL UNIVERSITY, DOCTORATE OF BUSINESS RA’NAA BILLINGSLEY - DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY, B.S., EDUCATION SAMSON AYOWOLETOMIWA AFOLABI - UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH (UNITED KINGDOM), B.S., ROBOTICS MADISON MCKENZIE WARE - DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY, B.S., BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION, SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT/ SPORTS MARKETING DOMINIQUE LEANN WILLIAMS - CARLOW UNIVERSITY, MASTER OF SCIENCE, PROFESSIONAL COUNSELING TYRA ROBINSON - COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY OF N.Y. SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING, B.S., CHEMICAL ENGINEERING MAIA MACKENZIE JOINER - ALLEGHENY COLLEGE, B.S., BIOLOGY ISAIAH ALONZO JONES-LANE - ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY, DUAL MASTERS, ENGINEERING, ARCHITECTURE/CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT TERRA R. LANE - UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF LAW, JURIS DOCTOR CALEB BROWN GROCE - UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH, HUMANITIES DEGREE, CONCENTRATION IN JAPANESE COMMUNICATION AND ENGLISH LITERATURE CIERA RUSSELL - HAMPTON UNIVERSITY, BACHELOR’S IN ENGLISH JORDYN CUNNINGHAM - UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH, MASTER’S DEGREE IN SPORTS MEDICINE JADELYN CUNNINGHAM - PENN STATE UNIVERSITY, B.S., WILDFIRE AND FISHERIES SCIENCE ERIN E. POTTER - CARLOW UNIVERSITY, MASTER OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION