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Pittsburgh’s incumbent Bill Peduto conceded the city’s Democratic primary for mayor to Ed Gainey, who can become the city’s first Black mayor in November.
Gainey, a five-term state representative, won the primary by a slim 46 to 39 percent margin Tuesday and is all but guaranteed to win the general election this fall.
Gainey won the support of minority and low-income voters as he consistently talked about getting equality for the city’s Black and poor residents. The HBCU grad also accused Peduto of ignoring those same voters and failing to ensure equity for all of the city’s residents.
Ashland Times Gazette
ASHLAND Rain showers in Ashland County on Sunday caused road closures, rain-filled parks and baseball diamonds, leaving residents waiting for the water to recede.
The National Weather Service reported 2.5 to 3 inches of rain fell in the Ashland area on Sunday. As of Monday, the Ashland County Sheriff s Office received 24 reports related to the rain in the county. Here is a list of a some of those reports:
High water on County Road 1600
High water on Township Road 133 and County Road 175
Flooding on County Road 257
High water near the 1400 block of County Road 1575
Flooding on Township Road 984
Township Road 975 is now open
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The Pittsburgh Courier chronicled history of Black Americans
By MARYLYNNE PITZ, Pittsburgh Post-GazetteMarch 6, 2021 GMT
PITTSBURGH (AP) As a teenager, Robert Lee Vann plowed fields with an ox under the scorching North Carolina sun. But he didn’t plant seeds of justice until he came north for an education.
After earning bachelor’s and law degrees at the University of Pittsburgh, the young attorney began writing in 1910 for a weekly newspaper called The Pittsburgh Courier. His goal, he wrote, was to “abolish every vestige of Jim Crowism in Pittsburgh.”
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For more than 40 years, the Courier’s crusades laid the groundwork for the civil rights movement and for a time, it had 350,000 readers in the U.S. and overseas. Its journalists advocated for fairer hiring practices, better housing and health care and the integration of workplaces, including the military and sports.
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