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Sam Clancy Sr. gets his flowers Honored with a street renaming in the Hill District at Bedford Avenue and Roberts Street by Ashley G. Woodson
For New Pittsburgh Courier City Council declared Saturday, June 24, 2023, “Sam Clancy Day” in the City of Pittsburgh. The homegrown, legendary athlete had received a proclamation at the City-County Building days earlier presented by Councilman R. Daniel Lavelle. Family, friends and all members of City Council were in attendance. But the real big day was June 24, as Uptown 2.0 presented a “Street Renaming for Sam Clancy Sr.” at the corner of Bedford Avenue and Roberts Street, in the Hill District. Andre Hilliard, Mark Kerr, Joey Diven and Uptown 2.0 put the ceremony together for Clancy, in the neighborhood where he grew up. Uptown 2.0 is also responsible for getting a street renamed for Brashear High School and West Virginia University star football player Major Harris in 2022, also in the
Hill. “You have to mention Sam Clancy when it comes to being one of the greatest athletes that ever came from the Hill District because his achievements speak for itself,” Hilliard told the New Pittsburgh Courier. Eugene Khorey, former principal at Brashear High School, reminisced about the good old days at Brashear with Sam “Bam” Clancy. “Everyone knew Sam at Brashear because that’s the influence he had,” Khorey said. “It was Sam that was able to move with the student body and say to them, ‘I’m one of you.’ With his engagement and personality, he permeated the whole school. As I repeat, everybody knew Sam and only half of the people knew me. I give Sam the most credit for making Brashear High School a success.” In fact, Clancy was a basketball star before there even was a Brashear High SEE CLANCY A5
SAM CLANCY SR., CENTER, AT A CEREMONY RENAMING A STREET, “SAM CLANCY WAY,” IN THE HILL DISTRICT, JUNE 24. AMONG THOSE PICTURED IS PITTSBURGH MAYOR ED GAINEY, FAR RIGHT. (PHOTO BY ASHLEY G. WOODSON)
Tragedy strikes Beaver County— Two Black teens killed hours apart Families in Aliquippa, Ambridge reeling over deaths of Dahvea Sparrow and Asaun Moreland by Rob Taylor Jr. Courier Staff Writer
The tough, resilient, proud residents of Aliquippa and Ambridge just experienced two tragedies, 20 hours apart. The families and friends of 15-year-old Dahvea Sparrow and 15-year-old Asaun Moreland are left to grieve their heinous shooting deaths; two African American teens, not even legally old enough to drive, with an entire life ahead of them, cut short. “Dahvea Sparrow was my one and only son, my baby,” were the first words that came from the mouth of Sparrow’s mother, Nicole Sparrow. Then, holding back tears, she said that she had to plan her only son’s funeral. “He was Dahv, to know
him was to love him,” Nicole Sparrow said, during a news conference in Aliquippa on Sunday, July 9, standing feet from where her son was shot and killed around 11:35 p.m. the previous night. “He was just a beautiful spirit. He was a good kid, a funny kid,” she said. Who could have ever thought that an hour or so after the press conference, another teen’s life would be taken, only a few minutes away across the aptly-titled Aliquippa-Ambridge bridge, in Ambridge. Moreland was walking on Church Street when two males reportedly approached Moreland, shooting and killing him. It’s unclear if both suspects were shooting, SEE BLACK TEENS A4
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NICOLE SPARROW, IN GREEN SHIRT, MOTHER OF 15-YEAR-OLD DAHVEA SPARROW, WHO WAS KILLED LATE SATURDAY NIGHT, JULY 8, IN ALIQUIPPA: “HE WAS JUST A BEAUTIFUL SPIRIT...A GOOD KID, A FUNNY KID.”