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Poetry project confronts racism
Pushing back Against “Comfortable Silence”
Poetry project confronts racism, remembers victims of Charleston, S.C. massacre
PITTSBURGH, Jan. 19, 2015 – The Pittsburgh Foundation has commissioned nine local poets to create new works for “Psalms for Mother Emanuel: an Elegy from Pittsburgh to Charleston,” a chapbook reflecting on racial issues and last year’s shootings at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, S.C.