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‘HATE WILL NOT PREVAIL’
THE BUFFALO MASS SHOOTING VICTIMS: TOP ROW: CELESTINE CHANEY, ROBERTA DRURY, ANDRE MACKNIEL, KATHERINE MASSEY, MARGUS MORRISON. BOTTOM ROW: HEYWARD PATTERSON, AARON SALTER, GERALDINE TALLEY, RUTH WHITFIELD, PEARL YOUNG.
President Biden says ‘White supremacy is a poison’ after 10 Blacks killed in Buffalo by Rob Taylor Jr. Courier Staff Writer
In a little over three hours, a person in Pittsburgh could drive to Buffalo, New York. In a little over three
hours, a person in Conklin, N.Y., could drive to Buffalo. In a little over three hours, a severely-misguided, racist coward did drive from Conklin, N.Y., to Buffalo, and set out to kill Black people.
Which he did. Ten Black people, to be exact, at a grocery store. Three others have so far survived their injuries. But a strike against one Black community is a strike against all Black
communities. This time, on this otherwise peaceful, happy-go-lucky Saturday afternoon, May 14, the attack just happened to occur in Buffalo. It could have happened in any Black community.
The New Pittsburgh Courier firmly stands with the Black community in Buffalo, who are reeling from this heinous attack by an 18-year-old White man whom the Courier refuses to name.
“In America, evil will not win, I promise you,” President Joe Biden said in Buffalo after visiting the growing memorial site outSEE BUFFALO A9
New, state-of-the-art medical center coming to Homewood by Rob Taylor Jr. Courier Staff Writer
Come the fall of 2024, Homewood will be “home” to a new, state-of-the-art, $20 million facility with pretty much any health-related service one would need. The New Pittsburgh Courier has learned that the Alma Illery Medical
Center, owned by Primary Care Health Services Inc., for 45 years on Hamilton Avenue, will remain open as the new, larger building is constructed in the space next to the current center. Groundbreaking for the new center is expected for the summer of 2023. When the 35,000 to 40,000-square foot building is fully constructed and
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in operation, it will serve as PCHS’ new headquarters, and the current Alma Illery Medical Center will be torn down. “The current facility has outlived its usefulness,” Dr. Jerome Gloster, CEO of PCHS, told the Courier in an interview, May 11. “We’ve listened to the community. The community has wanted a new health center for years.” With the new building comes an expanded pharmacy, which would become a retail pharmacy, able to fill prescriptions for the SEE MEDICAL CENTER A8
DR. JEROME GLOSTER, CEO of Primary Care Health Services Inc. The organization is constructing a new medical center to replace the Alma Illery Medical Center in Homewood.