PITTSBURGH RESOURCES
Pittsburgh NAACP
ADDRESS: 2203 Wylie Avenue, Pittsburgh
PHONE: 412-471-1024
WEBSITE: http://www.pittsburghnaacp.org
Urban League of Greater Pittsburgh
ADDRESS: One Smithfield Street, Third Floor; Pittsburgh
PHONE: 412-227-4802
WEBSITE: http://www.ulpgh.org
First Fridays Pittsburgh
PHONE: 412-860-4940
Pittsburgh Convention & Visitors Bureau
PHONE: 800-359-0758
WEBSITE: http://www.visitpittsburgh.com
Newspapers
New Pittsburgh Courier
One of the nation’s most renown Black newspapers, publishes twice weekly, including a national edition; The Pittsburgh Courier, along with the Chicago Defender, is famous for bringing the real news to African Americans throughout the South from the 1900s until desegregation began in the 1970s; like other Black newspapers it took a few blows to the chin, but its hanging in there
315 East Carson Street
412-481-8302
Pittsburgh Renaissance News
A newcomer to news reporting in the Black community with a definite positive tip; editor Connie Portis; 1516 Fifth Ave; 412-391-8208
Radio Stations
88.3 FM WRCT 6-hour program on Black music; Sunday 6a-Noon
92.1 FM WPTS U. of Pittsburgh Hip Hop, R&B, Reggae various times
104.7 FM WJJJ Old School R&B
1150 AM WGBN Gospel
1510 AM WPGR Gospel




