The Pittsburgh Penguins hockey team has reached an agreement with a historic Black church that was demolished along with much of the surrounding Black neighborhood in the 1950s in a now-lamented urban-renewal project.
PITTSBURGH More than 60 years ago, a historic Black church was forced to give up its sanctuary, compensated for what it says was a fraction of its value, to an urban renewal project that wiped out the heart of an African American neighborhood known as the Hill District.
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