Join us at 6 p.m. at the Carnegie Library Lecture Hall on Thursday, June 20 for a discussion with Liann Tsoukas & Rob Ruck, co-authors of MAL GOODE REPORTING! Tsoukas and Ruck will be in conversation with Pittsburgh journalist Edwina Kaikai. MAL GOODE REPORTING is the story of Pittsburgh's own Mal Goode, who became network news's first African American correspondent in 1962. Raised in Homestead and Pittsburgh, he worked in the mills, graduated from the University of Pittsburgh, and went on to become a journalist for the Pittsburgh Courier and later for local radio. Race prevented him from breaking into television until Jackie Robinson dared ABC to give him a chance. Goode’s life and work are remarkable in their own right, but his struggles and achievements also speak to larger issues of American life and the African American experience. This Made Local event is presented in collaboration with upittpress, with additional support from the Pittsburgh Black Media Foundation and Point Pa...