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At Point State Park, on Liberty Avenue and in Market Square, the Western PA Juneteenth Celebration is underway through June 16.

The longstanding Juneteenth celebration in Pittsburgh is a step closer to getting back city funding for this year.

When the covid-19 pandemic struck, local event organizers like Dena Stanley were left scrambling to find ways to keep their celebrations alive. Stanley, co-founder of Pittsburgh Pride Group, said the organization couldn’t put its annual Pride parade and festival together during the pandemic because of a lack of funding. The

A bill introduced to Pittsburgh City Council Wednesday would award $125,000 to the Poise Foundation aimed at supporting William "B" Marshall's Juneteenth festival.

Pittsburgh has figured out a way to defuse a controversy over dueling Juneteenth celebrations: Give money to both. The city is now poised to help fund two separate Juneteenth events next month after a longtime event organizer last week condemned Mayor Ed Gainey’s administration for initially proposing to steer cash

Pittsburgh is poised to launch a city-run Juneteenth event this year. City Council preliminarily approved a $125,000 contract with Bounce Marketing and Events to put on a festival next month. But the organizer of a long-running Juneteenth festival says he should have been given that money.

The longtime organizer of Pittsburgh’s most well-known Juneteenth festival harshly condemned Mayor Ed Gainey on Wednesday after learning that the city will not fund his event but will instead pay for a separate celebration of the federal holiday by a different promoter. The move marks a shift by Pittsburgh, which

Pittsburgh City Council pressed Mayor Ed Gainey's administration with questions before the vote, but gave preliminary OK to city plans to contract with a firm to stage the city's own sponsored Junenteeth celebration.

Controversy is flaring over this year’s Pittsburgh Pride festival after event organizers claimed that state officials prevented them from holding the annual celebration of the LGBTQ+ community at Point State Park in the Golden Triangle. The state Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, which runs the park, countered that there

The Soul Food Festival is not welcome at PPG Plaza next year due to "noise complaints," which organizers see as a racist double standard.