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Though the neighborhood still has many attractive homes and middle-class residents, displacement in the Hill District changed Sugar Top.

The awards are presented by the Pittsburgh Black Media Federation and honors the legendary former publisher and editor of the Pittsburgh Courier, Robert L. Vann.

Food Editor Hal B. Klein took home four of the awards, including the Ray Sprigle Memorial Award.

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...

Wednesday, January 13, 2021 Share When Ervin Dyer arrived in Pittsburgh more than 30 years ago as a reporter at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, he realized there were many stories left untold about the city’s Black communities. As he began to tell them, he quickly recognized the “spirit of independence” in communities like Hazelwood, East Liberty and the Hill District that pushed residents to fight for better lives. For example, the Hill District, Pittsburgh’s oldest Black community, was once known as “Little Hayti,” to align itself with the independence of Haiti i...