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Sankofa African American Theatre Company and Gamut Theatre Group bring an unique, uplifting, and thought-provoking experience to audiences with their production of Echoes of Voices of the Eighth: Stories from Harrisburg’s Old Eighth Ward. It is an illuminating play filled with history, heart, and hope.
K. Leroy Irvis, Pa.’s first Black House speaker, blazed trails and battled discrimination | Column Updated Mar 14, 2021; Posted Mar 14, 2021 K. Leroy Irvis, Pennsylvania House speaker for eight years in the 1970s and 1980s, poses in the House chamber in Harrisburg in 1985. The trailblazing lawmaker died 15 years ago this month. (Associated Press file photo) Facebook Share On the South Lawn of the Capitol Complex at Fourth and Walnuts streets stands a monument. Dedicated last year, it depicts four Black figures who had ties to the Old 8th Ward, a predominantly African American and immigran...