Coalition invitations neighborhood participation to examine a greater future for Black Pittsburghers

Amid continued experiences that Pittsburgh fosters poor high quality of life outcomes for Black residents, a wide-ranging coalition of organizations will convene a public working session this weekend to “critically study” the state of human rights in Black communities in southwestern Pennsylvania.

On Saturday at Obama Academy in East Liberty, Black individuals in Pittsburgh and neighboring communities are invited to take part in Taking Again Our Human Rights: Shaping Black Pittsburgh’s enchantment to the world, an occasion at which organizers say they’ll start creating “a daring imaginative and prescient and plan of motion for this area and its future, prioritizing the issues of Black individuals.”

“We achieve this at a second of disaster but additionally of alternative,” occasion organizers write on Fb. “For too lengthy, problems with pressing concern to Black individuals in our area have been uncared for or ignored, with devastating results. Professor Justin Hansford of Howard Legislation College, (newly appointed consultant to the United Nations Everlasting Discussion board of Individuals of African Descent) can be current to witness our deliberations, hear our issues, and raise them as much as the world physique.”

There is no such thing as a price to attend, though registration is inspired. Lunch and childcare can be supplied, in response to the Fb occasion.

The coalition sponsoring the occasion consists of Pittsburgh Human Rights Metropolis Alliance, 1Hood Media, Alliance for Police Accountability, Black Ladies’s Coverage Heart, Heart for Household Excellence, The World Switchboard and All for All, Gwen’s Ladies and the Black Ladies Fairness Alliance, Hill District Consensus Group, New Voices for Reproductive Justice, Penn Plaza Assist and Motion Coalition, Pittsburgh Black Fairness Coalition, Pittsburgh Fee on Human Relations, Pittsburgh Public Colleges Fairness, Pitt Colleges of Well being Sciences Workplace of Range, Fairness and Inclusion, College Human Rights Working Group, UrbanKind Institute, and West Finish POWER.