Story of pioneering Pittsburgh Black reporter inspires new documentary
Used with permission of the Carnegie Museum of Art, Charles “Teenie” Harris Archive George Barbour was KDKA radio’s first Black news reporter. TribLIVE's Daily and Weekly email newsletters deliver the news you want and information you need, right to your inbox. When protesters seeking voting rights for Black Americans made the 54-mile trek from Selma to Montgomery, Ala., in 1965, a Pittsburgh reporter was there. It didn’t matter to KDKA radio newsman George Barbour that his boss considered it too dangerous for a news outlet to send a Black reporter to the Deep South to cover a rac...
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