Community leaders and local officials on Tuesday outlined plans for Pittsburgh’s annual Juneteenth celebration, which this year will include a parade, sports, a music festival and 100 minority-owned business vendors. The city’s Juneteenth celebration is organized by Stop the Violence Pittsburgh and the organization’s founder and CEO, B. Marshall, in
How to Improve Workplace Diversity in Pittsburgh
A coalition of Pittsburghers is working to make inclusion an integral part of the hiring process and creating spaces where people feel as if they belong.
December 17, 2020
There is a narrative about Pittsburgh that isn’t on any promotional material and one that community leaders are working hard to change.
“Pittsburgh has been a place of prosperity and opportunity for white people, and it has been a place of negative interactions, lack of opportunity and elevation and equity for people of color, specifically Black people,” says Sabrina Saunders Mosby, president and CEO of Vibrant Pittsburgh. “I’m working specifically to change that narrative, because we know that there is reality in the narrative.”