PRESS Releases and NEWS Articles 2021

June 1, 2021 | The Tulsa Massacre – One Hundred Years Later

May 25, 2021 | A Year Later

April  20, 2021 | The NAACP Pennsylvania State Conference Acknowledges This Day of Reckoning

April  3, 2021 | News Alert

April 2, 2021 | Pennsylvania School Funding Lawsuit on Track to Begin Trial in September 2021

April 1, 2021 | NAACP PA State Conference Partners with Rite-Aid for Vaccine Clinics

January 6, 2021 | Lawsuit Filed Against Gateway School District NAACP Press Release

• ADDITIONAL NEWS COVERAGE:
  MONROEVILLE (KDKA) — A news conference, involving the NAACP, was held Wednesday morning on a federal lawsuit that was filed against a Monroeville school district. It’s over a woman who claims she was denied a position she was qualified for, because she’s in an interracial marriage.

  More information in the link below:
  https://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2021/01/06/naacp-news-conference-gateway-school-district-hiring-lawsuit/

  NAACP backs lawsuit against Gateway School District
  Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

  The Pennsylvania and Allegheny East branches of the NAACP have announced their full support in the lawsuit Korie Morton-Rozier has brought against the Gateway School District on the basis of racial discrimination.

  More information in the link below:
  https://www.post-gazette.com/news/crime-courts/2021/01/06/NAACP-backs-lawsuit-against-Gateway-School-District-korie-morton-rozier-racism-discrimination-athletic-director/stories/202101060127

  NAACP calling for a Gateway school board member to resign
  WTAE-TV

  The NAACP wants a school board member in the Gateway School District to resign after a federal lawsuit was filed against the district by a woman who claims she was passed over for a job because of her interracial marriage.

  More information in the link below:
  https://www.wtae.com/article/naacp-calling-for-a-gateway-school-board-member-to-resign/35141904#

  NAACP says Gateway School District board member should step down after alleged racial slur
  WPXI-TV

  A woman is suing the Gateway School District, claiming her interracial marriage cost her a job. A school board member is accused of calling her husband a racial slur in a text message. The text message came from board member Paul Caliari. Local NAACP officials said Caliari should resign and the Gateway School District needs to step up.

  More information in the link below (NO VIDEO)
  https://www.newsbreak.com/pennsylvania/monroeville/society/2139989895969/naacp-says-gateway-school-district-board-member-should-step-down-after-alleged-racial-slur