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Lynne Hayes-Freeland becomes first-ever Black full-time, weekday talk show host on KDKA Radio by Rob Taylor Jr. Courier Staff Writer
LYNNE HAYES-FREELAND
The New Pittsburgh Courier has learned that Lynne Hayes-Freeland, award-winning reporter and host of The Lynne Hayes-Freeland Show on KDKA-TV, will host a four-hour weekday show (10 a.m. to 2 p.m.) on KDKA Radio (1020
am), beginning Jan. 3, 2019. Hayes-Freeland becomes the first African American to host a full-time, weekday show in the nearly 100-year history of KDKA Radio. “I think it’s way past time for it,” Hayes-Freeland told the Courier in an exclusive interview, Thursday, Dec. 20. “It’s also time for a female voice or perspective, an opportunity to raise issues and topics of discussion that haven’t been included in
Penn Hills football team wins 2018 state championship
talk radio here in Pittsburgh.” The move marks Hayes-Freeland’s second stint with KDKA Radio, having begun her broadcast career as a producer for the station in 1976. KDKA Radio’s Chris Moore has been the longtime host of his own show on weekends. But the absence of a full-time, daily presSEE HAYES-FREELAND A4
Top stories of 2018 by Christian Morrow
shooting. Another story directly reCourier Staff Writer lated to Rose’s death is the From the stark video ongoing campaign to estabby Rob Taylor Jr. chronicling the incident, lish an Allegheny County Courier Staff Writer to the protests that shut Civilian Police Review down multiple highways, Board, modeled on the one The headline on a sports and finally to Allegheny formed in Pittsburgh folpage in the Nov. 28 New County District Attorney lowing the strangulation Pittsburgh Courier read, Stephen A. Zappala filing death of Jonny Gammage “There is no stopping Penn criminal homicide charges, by police during a trafHills,” referring to the city’s the June 19 fatal shooting fic arrest in Brentwood in beloved high school football 1995. of Antwon team that won the WPIThe iniRose II by AL 5A Championship over tiative has East PittsWest Allegheny five days been pushed burgh police earlier. at the grassOfficer MiAt that point, the Penn roots level chael RosHills Indians were undeby Black acfeld, and its feated at 14-0. tivists from aftermath, Turns out they were just Pittsburgh dominated getting started. to McKlocal news in Why be the best Class eesport, and 2018. 5A team in Western Pennat the poliRosfeld sylvania, when you have cy level by shot the playmakers like Daequan state Reps. unarmed Hardy, Hollis Mathis, Terry Ed Gainey, 17-year-old “Tank” Smith, Corey ThomJake Wheatthree times as Jr. and Dante Cephas? ley and Ausas he fled a Thus, two weeks after tin Davis; traffic stop. winning the WPIAL title, state Sens. Fallout from Penn Hills messed around Jay Costa Rose’s killand won the whole sheand Wayne ing continbang—the PIAA Class 5A Fontana; ues more State Championship. and perthan six Thanks to another behaps most months latloved figure—Bill Fralimportantly, er. Among ic, the Penn Hills and ANTWON ROSE II by county the first Pitt star whom also had related stories was that Councilmen DeWitt Wala standout career in the attorney Turahn Jenkins ton and Paul Klein. On NFL—the entire Penn would challenge Zappala Dec. 18, they submitted an Hills football team was able to stay at a hotel near COREY THOMAS JR. celebrates with the state championship trophy after Penn Hills defeated Manheim in the 2019 Democratic ordinance to create such primary. Saying he was a board to council. It has Hershey the night before Central in the Class 5A title game, Dec. 7. (Photo via Facebook) tired of “watching as our been referred to committee the Dec. 7 championship game. All costs were cov- nent, Manheim Central, a 36-14 lead, thanks to an scored on a 100-yard in- criminal justice system and will be voted on in earout of Lancaster County. incredulous performance terception (one of his three destroys people’s lives,” ly 2019. ered by Fralic. Jenkins announced his run The Indians were At one point in the Friday by Hardy, who put the offiSEE CHAMPIONSHIP A5 SEE TOP STORIES A5 just three weeks after the well-rested for their oppo- night affair, Penn Hills had cial scorer to work. Hardy
Pittsburgh Police releases Ethnic Intimidation report 71% of the incidents were toward African Americans by Christian Morrow Courier Staff Writer
Riding back from the North Side on the “T” in August of 2015, Kevin Lockett missed his stop due to the crowd leaving a Kenny Chesney concert, so he got off at Wood Street. During the ride he heard racial slurs directed at him by a group of White males. He doesn’t remember much of what happened next—because they got off at Wood
Street too, and one of them, Ryan Kyle, attacked him, threw him on the tracks, and then beat him unconscious. This past August, Dulane Cameron was having fun with friends at a North Shore bar, until on their way out they ran into Joden Rocco, who earlier that night had posted a racially hateful video to social media. Within minutes he had fatally stabbed Cameron in the IN THE RIGHT PORTION OF THIS GRAPHIC provided by Pittsburgh police, 71 percent of Ethnic Intimidation incidents were toward African Americans. neck.
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Both of these incidents were bound by hate; the attack on Lockett was part of the data compiled in a new 10-year Pittsburgh police analysis of Ethnic Intimidation incidents in the city. Under Pennsylvania Crimes Code, Ethnic Intimidation is synonymous with “Hate Crime,” and while it also applies to ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation and disability, the analysis notes that race is by far the prime motivator for such crimes: •From Jan. 1, 2008 to Oct. 28, the distribution of Ethnic Intimidation Incidents are as follows: 76 percent of the incidents involved Race, SEE REPORT A4
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