Community

Put your morals where your mouth is by buying your groceries from Local Cooling Farms

By Matt Haines | October 19, 2020

Local Cooling Farms is a 16-acre property on the Northshore where Kate Estrade and her husband, Grant, raise livestock including pigs, cattle, chickens and goats. They also act as a distributor for more than a dozen other local farmers and producers — selling approximately 100 items from milk and jam, to ice cream and vegetables.

Grounded Strategies

Ep. 46 – Meet Ariam Ford-Graver, executive director of Grounded Strategies

By Stephanie Brea | September 22, 2020

Learn more about the local nonprofit that works with communities to revitalize vacant or neglected land throughout Pittsburgh.

Pittsburgh Garbage Olympics

Volunteer Here: Garbage Olympics on Sept. 26

By Lindsay Patross | September 21, 2020

Help clean up litter in your neighborhood this weekend

Move through this roundup of our most outdoorsy podcast episodes

By Stephanie Brea | September 9, 2020

These interviews with Pittsburghers are perfect socially distant walking companions.

PHOTOS: Community gathers to Remember Sylvester Francis, founder of the Backstreet Cultural Museum

By Matthew Hinton | September 2, 2020

Voodoo Queen Kalindah Laveaux, left, and Monogram Hunters 2nd Chief Jeremy Stevenson, center, celebrate the life of Sylvester “Hawk” Francis at the Backstreet Cultural Museum in the Treme Neighborhood of New Orleans, Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2020, after Francis passed from a long illness. He was 73 years old.

7th Ward Santa is gone and so is part of the Christmas magic for Black New Orleanians

By Mary Staes | August 26, 2020

While Hurricane Katrina may have taken many of our childhood photos, 7th Ward Santa was something that was here well before Katrina, and lasted beyond the storm. Unlike second lines or Super Sunday’s, which have become more mainstream (for lack of a better word) since the storm, 7th Ward Santa was something that was always ours.

Recipe of disaster: With New Orleans bars closed due to COVID, hospitality workers face housing crisis

By Suzanne Pfefferle Tafur | August 26, 2020

Thousands of unemployed hospitality workers throughout the city are worried about paying their rent or mortgage.

Used with courtesy of Lionel Milton

Powerful, political, on purpose: A Q&A with New Orleans artist Lionel Milton

By Sabrina Stone | August 19, 2020

If you live in New Orleans, you’ve seen Lionel Milton’s work. His moving and powerful art graces many a wall and canvas around the city. He is a man with clarity and purpose.

PHOTOS: Community gathers to pay respects to Big Queen Kim “Cutie” Boutte

By Matthew Hinton | August 13, 2020

Members of the Black Masking Indians community, also known as Carnival or Mardi Gras Indians, remember Big Queen Kim “Cutie” Boutte of the Spirit of the Fi Yi Yi and Mandingo Warriors tribe at Hunter’s Field in the 7th Ward and the Treme neighborhood of New Orleans August 12, 2020.

PHOTOS: Emotions high as body recovered from Hard Rock Hotel site

By Matthew Hinton | August 8, 2020

On Aug. 8, the body of Quinnyon Wimberly was removed from the site after nearly 10 months. His family and city officials were at the site Saturday morning.