[raccoonradio]

Yes. One bit of Pittsburgh black history done well is an exhibit on Negro League Baseball in the sports section of the John Heinz History Museum. There were legendary jazz clubs
and artists like George Benson, etc.

I almost thought when I heard the name that August Wilson was the playwright of Hot l Baltimore, a short lived Norman Lear series about a flophouse. Looked up—ah, right church wrong pew. LANFORD Wilson wrote that play.

[Gaffer]

I am not against a valid reason to have some venue to celebrate the works of a black anyone. For instance, I’d like to visit a place like that to see all the wonderful things that George Washington Carver did. Likewise for Louis Armstrong and the like.

But to promote a nobody (as far as I know) playwright simply because he was black isn’t something I care about. If he was somebody to care about, I believe I would have recognized him in some way or another. Even if by most standards I should have known, I really don’t care. To me, there is no ‘there’ there.

[Ouderkirk]

Hot l Baltimore

WOW...what a blast from the past. It was so short lived, and I was 13 when it aired. Lasted like half a season...barely remember it.

[Vigilanteman]

Eventually, this building will have to be sold to creditors and whatever is of exhibition quality will move to the John Heinz History Museum.

They have an honest black historian on staff who does a bang-up job of highlighting black contributions to Pittsburgh's rich history as the linked article here attests.

The August Wilson Center actually has a better location than the Heinz Museum. Plus there is plenty of foundation money here in the Burgh to support it if the people running it could show they could do something with that money other than make it disappear. They can't and that's why it has dried up.