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Choirs from six Pittsburgh-area high schools will join Pittsburgh Concert Chorale for a special online performance of Mozart’s “Requiem” in memory of lives lost to covid-19.
Participating schools include Mt. Lebanon, Seneca Valley, Shaler Area, South Fayette, Upper St. Clair and Woodland Hills, along with a smaller group of singers from Lincoln Park Performing Arts Charter School.
“It’s our gift to the community,” said Susan Medley, PCC music director. “Covid has impacted every life in some way, but there are so many whose lives will never be the same.”
Angela serves as Vice President of The Feulner Institute at The Heritage Foundation. For African Americans, learning and knowledge has been and continues to be the drumline of survival and success. Klaus Vedfelt / Getty Images
Key Takeaways
Charter schools have been tremendously successful in helping minority students get a quality education.
Self-destructive behaviors don’t seem to flourish in schools rooted in a vision of achieving excellence and writing a legacy of purpose.
Too often, students find themselves consigned to public schools, mired in a defeatist vision of low-expectations, victimhood and resignation.
For African Americans, learning and knowledge has been and continues to be the drumline of survival and success.
Staff Reports
MIDLAND The Midland Women’s Civic Club will host its annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day celebration on Jan. 18.
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the free 1 p.m. event will be held virtually via Lincoln Park Performing Arts Center’s YouTube channel and Facebook page.
Constitutional law professor and CNN contributor Michael Higginbotham will deliver the keynote address following this year’s theme, “Come Together: Only in Darkness Can You See the Stars.”
Higginbotham is a distinguished legal scholar and attorney who has taught at the University of Baltimore School of Law since 1988, earning his undergrad degree at Brown University and law degrees from both Yale University and the University of Cambridge. He made his first foray into politics as a candidate in Maryland’s special congressional election for the seat vacated by the death of Elijah Cummings.
MIDLAND Midland pride shines brightly, and efficiently, with a symbolic holiday lighting display visible night and day.
It all started when artisans from the Lincoln Park Performing Arts Center decided to create an art exhibit reflecting their feelings over this past year.
They wrapped 57 of the 58 trees in the neighboring and namesake Lincoln Park in hundreds of feet of solar-powered Christmas lights. These lights sparkle and vary in intensity depending upon how much sunlight they receive throughout the day.
The center tree of the park stands out by being wrapped in thousands of feet of electric-powered LED holiday lights. This tree remains lit night and day regardless of its surroundings.