Articles

2011

• Byrdsong: CCAC labor deal could limit Blacks


• Day of Remembrance brought to city leaders


• Unity effort made to stop the violence


• CEA focus on positive Black males


• 'Rally for Peace' starts petition drive


• Community Calendar


• MAD DADS BEYOND THE BLOCK


• Target ok with Penn Ave. merchants


• Black males come together for youth

2010

• Is Rashad Byrdsong Under Attack?


• Byrdsong building drama continues


• CEA: More Target jobs for East End residents


• CEA building anti-violence network


• CEA to purchase building from HBRDC


• OUT AND ABOUT


• CEA unites activists to address violence


• CEA community meeting to end violence


• Black Family Reunion fills Schenley Park


• State of Emergency: 6 dead, 3 wounded in 8 days in McKeesport


• Stage AE-Year round venue on North Shore


• Nonprofits offer alternatives to thug life


• Upon Further Review

2009

• CEA fights battle on two fronts


• Alpha Phi Alpha refutes CEA allegations of underhandedness


• CEA set to move Into political realm


• Crime in community changes King's legacy


• Black males lead pretests against Black male violence


• CEA holds 15th annual Kwanzaa celebration

2008

• Taser death raises concerns


• Stopping violence focus of Black Male Solidarity Day


• CEA takes new approach to violence reduction


• CEA holds one of many emergency town hall meetings


• Record crowd attends Black Family Reunion


• Over 200 'Walk for Peace'


• Keepers of the Flame celebrate the arts

2007

• Next step toward Black solidarity


• Separate events, common cause


• Cultural Center is model for community


• Groups step up summer youth employment


• Day of Solidarity brings men together


• 400 march on Day of Solidarity


• More money for summer youth program


• Thanks to those who make a difference


• Anti-violence campaign seeks 'jobs not jail'


• Community rallies support for fire victims

2006

• Understanding the significance of Kwanzaa


• Black Family Reunion festival set


• To Tell The Truth; Our youth know 50 Cent, but don't know you

2005 & Before

• Children of incarcerated 'invisible,' get no support


• Feds allocate funds to curb gun violence


• CEA 10th anniversary; Empowerment still aim of organization


• KWANZAA's seven principles


• Check celebration; Rendell presents $1.4 Mil to Kingsley


• Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.; Not much accomplished in economic arena since Dr. King's death


• No easy answers; Leaders say Benchmarks disparities too entwined for simple solutions


• Homewood mulls name for new school; Residents circulate petition


• Recovery plan calls for cuts in oversight of police


• Kwanzaa celebrated with special guests


• Summit seeks youth input


• Youths rally for unity; Poetry forum issues call to action for youth summit in Homewood


• New masjid in East End; Muslims hope groundbreaking will stimulate more economic development


• Byrdsong: East End needs social service programs


• More funds for witness protection


• District 9 council candidates respond to issues: How would you rid neighborhoods of drugs, violence?


• Byrdsong holds 3rd Black leadership meeting


• Homewood summer youth job program to continue


• Pittsburgh community celebrates Kwanzaa


• The color line still exists in the 21st century


• UPMC brings job fair to Homewood


• Homewood fair takes holistic approach: Community learns about health, jobs


• Specter, Santorum offer support for witness protection program


• Homewood group to formulate development plan


• Homewood library gets $3M for modernization


• Byrdsong: Helping people utilize their resources


• "It's Homewood's turn now": New group determined to bring redevelopment to neighborhood


• Forum discusses solutions to police brutality


• Watson's life turned around: Program helps ex-inmate become heavy machine operator


• Casualties of the street


• Blacks not included in stadium construction


• To Tell The Truth: Aretha Franklin sang it - R.E.S.P.E.C.T.


• 1998 YEAR IN REVIEW


• To Tell The Truth: We must become a circle


• More than 60 attend Udin's first Pittsburgh Works mobilization effort


• Linking businesses with workers: Homewood-based group gives employers access to an untapped labor pool


• Labor, community activists protest hiring of out-of-state contractor: City hires New York firm to raze East Liberty Sears Site


• Radio show's cancellation angers grass roots listeners: AURN replaces `Night Talk' with `The Bev Smith Show'


• Union, East End residents hold `Walk for Jobs': Home Depot's lack of commitment to community prompts protest


• No headway made in Sears site dispute


• `We have to come together': Black radicals to convene in Chicago to forge community agenda


• Pepper Spray Investigation Demanded


• Residents Demand Work Inclusion: Preston was not aware of group's concern


• FOP President's Comments Called `Cop Mentality': Veteran patrolman says sensitivity training not necessary


• Tell The Truth: Are We In Drive, Park Or Reverse?


• Grass Roots Group Calls For Civilian Review Board