The Pittsburgh Racial Justice Summit is a one-and-a-half-day conference dedicated to providing resources and spaces for community dialogues, sharing strategies and experiences of organizing for racial justice, healing from racial trauma, and providing connections to social support services for all attendees. The Summit is a multicultural initiative of the Black and White Reunion. It was first held in 1996, convened in response to the death of Jonny Gammage, a thirty-one-year-old Black man who was murdered by four white police officers in a suburb on the outskirts of Pittsburgh.
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The Summit begins Friday night, followed by a full day of panels and sessions on Saturday. Friday night includes a fireside chat by three internationally renowned, award-winning, best-selling Pittsburgh writers:

Deesha Philyaw

Brian Broome

Damon Young

Dr Herbert V.R.P. Jones

• Deesha Philyaw, author of “The Secret Lives of Church Ladies”
• Brian Broome, author of “Punch Me Up to the Gods”
• Damon Young, author of “What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Blacker”

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The keynote opening event will also include a choral performance of “Lift Ev’ry Voice” by the Pittsburgh Heritage Gospel Chorale directed by Dr. Herbert V.R.P. Jones.

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