Jonathan Sotsky, director, learning and impact at the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, speaks to two Pittsburgh-based college students to understand how the First Amendment impacts and affects their lives.
Led by moderator Robert Rosenthal, the panel discusses Freedom of the Press and Religion within the context of an ever-changing media landscape.
April Ryan, White House correspondent, Washington, D.C., bureau chief for American Urban Radio Networks and CNN political analyst, opens the conference and shares her perspective as a journalist on how our freedoms are under threat.
Photographer Martha Rial talks about the International Free Expression Project, a nonprofit organization dedicated to building public support for free expression.
Yascha Mounk, executive director of the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change, discusses how threats to fundamental freedoms guaranteed in the First Amendment can represent a threat to democracy in the United States and around the world.
Thanks to $229,000 in grants, the Advancing Black Arts in Pittsburgh initiative will be funding a local comic book series, mixed media ceramic work, holistic healing guide, collection of short stories and many more projects.
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Jeanne Pearlman, senior vice president for program and policy at The Pittsburgh Foundation, provides an overview of the conference and introduces the topics to be discussed on the first day of the First Amendment in the 21st Century conference. The conference was held June 21-22, 2018.
A welcome message from Maxwell King, president and CEO of The Pittsburgh Foundation, opening of the first day of The First Amendment for the Twenty-First Century conference. The conference was held June 21-22, 2018 at the August Wilson Center and Pittsburgh CAPA in Pittsburgh.
Lillian Neugebauer stood under five feet tall, but it was her outsized sense of humor and larger-than-life personality that endeared her to family and friends. Born in Stanton Heights in 1926, Neugebauer was a world traveler who still called Pittsburgh home for her entire life. She lived with her sister, Bernyce, for most of her life. In 2003, the sisters left a retirement home and moved to an apartment in Hampton, blaming the poor quality of the food at the retirement home as the reason for the move.
Veteran of Westmoreland nonprofit community to recruit new advisors, donors
