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The Neighborhood Pittsburgh Erased for Progress
Lower Hill urban renewal cleared a dense Black neighborhood for a redevelopment vision whose promised replacement city took decades to materialize.
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The Decade Homewood Was Left to Fight for Itself
Homewood’s late-twentieth-century crisis was not a one-cause story: disinvestment, housing change, job loss, drugs, violence and community resilience collided across the same streets.
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The Neighborhood Pittsburgh Erased to Build Its Renaissance
How the Lower Hill was declared blighted, cleared by public power, replaced by one of America's most futuristic arenas—and left Pittsburgh arguing for generations about what progress is allowed to cost.
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The Newspaper That Asked America Which Democracy It Was Fighting For
How one young Black defense worker wrote to the Pittsburgh Courier and helped turn World War II into two battles at once
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