Title
Resolution establishing the City of Pittsburgh All-In Cities Leadership Forum.
(Post Agenda and Public Hearing held 12/5/19)
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Whereas, the City's Gender Equity Commission's report, titled, "Pittsburgh's Inequality Across Gender and Race", found that Pittsburgh's African-American residents could move to almost any other U.S. city of comparable size and enjoy a better quality of life; and,
Whereas, this is due to how deeply systemic racism is embedded in the culture, the fabric and the infrastructure and residential patterns of the City of Pittsburgh; and,
Whereas, in Pittsburgh, a century of intentional decisions has locked most of Pittsburgh's African-American residents in neighborhoods of concentrated poverty lacking any real opportunity, where the overwhelming majority of Pittsburgh's African-American residents live; and,
Whereas, these neighborhoods, explicitly the result of racial discrimination, create conditions for their African-American residents that lead to disproportionate and intergenerational poverty and their suffering from chronic diseases, lowered lifespans and premature death; and,
Whereas, African-American women suffer higher rates of maternal mortality, poverty, lower rates of college readiness and lower rates of employment; and,
Whereas, African-American men face higher rates of occupational segregation, homicide, cancer and cardiovascular diseases; and,
Whereas, African Americans have made significant contributions to the arts legacy of Pittsburgh, yet their contributions often go unacknowledged, while the systemic and structural racism in Pittsburgh has led many African American artists to leave the city in search of more equitable environments where they can flourish and be recognized; and,
Whereas, these inequitable conditions, concentrated so heavily and so squarely upon a single group of the City's residents and in specific neighborhoods, has created both an economic and a public health crisis; and,
Whereas, no...
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