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JANUARY 1-7, 2025
HARD WORK PAYS OFF FOR PITTSBURGH’S BLACK MEN
CAPA graduate, CBS actor Carter Redwood launches his new foundation by Rob Taylor Jr. Courier Staff Writer
PITTSBURGH NATIVE AND CBS ACTOR CARTER REDWOOD, son of Tawnya and Carl Redwood, launched his Carter Redwood Foundation in Downtown Pittsburgh, Dec. 22, 2024. (Photo by J.L. Martello)
On CBS' "FBI: International," the scripts are perfectly laid out for the actors. The actors learn those scripts, and then the magic happens; the actors perform their roles perfectly, and then in post-production, the television show is prepared for its airing on national television. But Carter Redwood came clean, admitted to a group of supporters in Downtown Pittsburgh that his latest foray has no pre-determined script. He doesn't have all his "T's" crossed and his "I's" dotted on this latest endeavor, and in the past, that would have stopped him from doing something. Not this time. "I'm at a place where I'm allowing myself to take a step," Redwood, the famous actor who plays special agent Andre Raines on the show, which airs on CBS (KDKA-TV 2) on Tuesday nights. "(Author) Zig Ziglar said, 'you don't have to be great to start, you have to start to be great.'" And with that, Redwood, the Pittsburgh native, the 2010 Pittsburgh CAPA
graduate, the Carnegie Mellon University graduate, officially launched his "Carter Redwood Foundation" where it all started —Pittsburgh. "It's an idea that has been swirling around in my mind for a really long time," Redwood said at the Dec. 22, 2024, launch at Cafe Momentum Pittsburgh, on Forbes Avenue. "And to be honest, I didn't quite know what I wanted to do or how I wanted to do it...the answers will come as we continue to move forward." In a 2021 New Pittsburgh Courier report on Redwood by reporter Renee P. Aldrich, Redwood's acting chops "were established at the early age of 10 when he was approached by Mark Southers, founder and artistic director of the Pittsburgh Playwrights Theatre Company, to play the role of Southers’ son in 'When the Water Runs Clear,' a play written by Southers himself. This was the beginning and place where Redwood said he 'got bit by the acting bug.'" Redwood, with former teachers and principals SEE REDWOOD A3
Greensburg-Salem alum Brennan Marion gets first collegiate head coaching job Son of Courier circulation consultant Jeff Marion by Rob Taylor Jr. Courier Staff Writer
Before Mike Tomlin became head coach of the Pittsburgh Steelers, he cut his teeth as a wide receivers coach at VMI (Virginia Military Institute) and Arkansas State; a defensive backs coach at Arkansas State and the University of Cincinnati; then to the NFL as a defensive backs coach with Tampa Bay and defensive coordinator with the Minnesota Vikings. To get to the top, you’ve got to have that drive, determination, that “stick with it,” and most importantly, be an expert at your craft. It’s exactly what Pittsburgh-area native Brennan Marion is doing. Marion, who grew up for a time in Homewood and attended schools like Reizenstein, Westinghouse, Penn Hills, Steel Valley and ultimately graduated
from Greensburg-Salem High School, in Westmoreland County, has just been named head football coach of Sacramento State, the New Pittsburgh Courier has learned. Sacramento State is part of the California State University system, with 31,000 students. Sacramento State plays in Division I FCS, in the Big Sky Conference. It’s Marion’s first head coaching job in college, after being head coach of high school teams in California and Waynesboro, Pa. Since then, he has cut his teeth in the college ranks, starting as an offensive quality control assistant for Arizona State in 2015, running backs coach for Oklahoma Baptist in 2016, offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach for Howard University in 2017-18, offensive coordinator and SEE MARION A3
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BRENNAN MARION HAS CUT HIS TEETH IN THE COACHING PROFESSION. TODAY, HE CAN CALL HIMSELF A COLLEGE FOOTBALL HEAD COACH. MARION IS A GREENSBURG-SALEM HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATE. (PHOTO GRAPHIC COURTESY SACRAMENTO STATE)