America’s best weekly Second Baptist Church of Homestead Pastoral Installation SEE PAGE A10
Pittsburgh Courier NEW
www.newpittsburghcourier.com Vol. 115 No. 46 Two Sections
NOVEMBER 13-19, 2024
thenewpittsburghcourier Published Weekly $1.00
DISAPPOINTMENT
African Americans massively support Kamala Harris, but she couldn't overcome the 'Red Wave' by Rob Taylor Jr. Courier Staff Writer
In the days after the Nov. 5 Presidential Election, many African Americans in Pittsburgh were too distraught, too angry, too disappointed to speak with the New Pittsburgh Courier on the record about Donald Trump defeating Kamala Harris in the race for the U.S. Presidency. In fact, the weather on the day after the election was gloomy, cloud-filled, a little cold. For the vast majority of Black Pittsburghers and Black Pennsylvanians, the weather fit their mood. Kamala Harris, the current U.S. Vice President, who rose from modest beginnings to become a Howard University graduate, become the first woman District Attorney of San
Francisco, the first woman Attorney General of California, and just the second Black woman to serve in the U.S. Senate, was defeated in the presidential election by a convicted felon, who happened to be White—and male. That's the way many Black people are looking at the election, like Jackie Stewart of East Liberty, one of the few people to speak with the Courier on the record. "I am highly upset over the election," she said. "I don't think it was done fairly. I still think they're not ready for a woman of color, although it would have been a good choice. I don't understand why someone can have so many felonies against him, and yet our (Black) guys that have felonies can't have a job...but we can find a
felon (Trump) to run the country." Harris, had she won, would have made history as the first woman U.S. President, as well as the first Black woman to hold the U.S. Presidency. However, her opponent, Trump, the former president, painted Harris as the sole reason behind the perceived immigration/border problem in the country. Trump painted Harris as a person who oversaw massive inflation in the U.S., where people were angry about high prices on groceries, gas and rent. Those portrayals didn't work on most African Americans, but it worked with two-thirds of all Whites without a college SEE HARRIS A4
VP KAMALA HARRIS, SPEAKING IN PITTSBURGH, NOV. 4, THE DAY BEFORE THE ELECTION. (PHOTO BY J.L. MARTELLO)
Beloved KQV Radio reporter Elaine Effort dies at 74 Loved her family, church, PBMF and the Girl Scouts organization by Rob Taylor Jr. Courier Staff Writer
The year 1977 was a wonderful year, as Edmund Effort, D.D.S., tells it. "I graduated from dental school, I got married, and then we joined the Air Force," Effort said. Dr. Effort and the love of his life, his wife Elaine Effort, who he met four years prior at the University of Michigan, hopped on a plane and left for the U.S. Air Force Base in Alconbury, England, about 80 miles north of London. A dentist in the Air Force, Edmund Effort had a good salary, 30 days vacation per year, free health care and free housing. Thus,
together, Edmund and Elaine Effort traveled the world. They would look at a map, or read about a particular place, "throw a dart at it," and just go, Edmund Effort told the New Pittsburgh Courier. Holland. France. Germany. Spain. Israel. And more. "We went to the River Jordan, Dome of the Rock (Shrine in Jerusalem), the city of Nazareth, Tel Aviv, Bethlehem," Edmund Effort told the Courier. "We swam in the Dead Sea." By 1981, the Efforts returned to the States, and Elaine Effort was offered her job back as a reporter for KQV Radio, which, by SEE ELAINE EFFORT A6
Pittsburgh Courier NEW
To subscribe, call 412-481-8302 ext. 136
ELAINE EFFORT WORKED AT KQV RADIO FOR 38 CONSECUTIVE YEARS, RETIRING IN 2017.
Farewell, Pittsburgh!
Come in to our Store Closing Sale. Save up to 60%! Everything Must Go!
634 Smithfield Street, Downtown