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Pittsburgh residents, council members take up issue of Black flight from city


Nate Smallwood | Tribune-Review
 
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Pittsburgh’s Black community is shrinking and some who remain in the city say they are fed up with generations of neglect by city officials, systematic racism and development projects that have caused departures.
Between 2014 and 2018, U.S. Census data shows, Pittsburgh’s Black population dropped by about 10% or 7,000 people.
On Wednesday, some of more than three dozen speakers at a city council hearing put voices, faces and names beside those numbers. During their allotted three minutes, they spoke, some offering support from civic organizations and other groups in the city. Even more might have talked if it weren’t for technological glitches during the virtual meeting. ....

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