# @pghartslectures on Instagram

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- **Posted:** 2024-06-13T15:01:01.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Pittsburgh Arts & Lectures (@PghArtsLectures) — https://gondola.cc/PghArtsLectures

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In just one week: a discussion with MAL GOODE REPORTING coauthors Liann Tsoukas and Rob Ruck, in conversation with journalist Edwina Kaikai. MAL GOODE REPORTING is the story of Pittsburgh’s own Mal Goode.

Mal Goode (1908–1995) became network news’s first African American correspondent when ABC News hired him 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. 

With his basso profundo voice resonating on the airwaves, Goode challenged the police, politicians, and segregation, while providing Black listeners a voice that captured their experience. Race prevented him from breaking into television until Jackie Robinson dared ABC to give him a chance. Goode was uncompromising in his belief that network news needed Black voices and perspectives if it were to authentically reflect the nation’s complexities. His success at ABC initiated the slow integration of network news. 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.  

MAL GOODE REPORTING is available to purchase from whitewhalebks 

This free event is presented by pghartslectures in collaboration with upittpress, with additional support from the Pittsburgh Black Media Foundation and pointparkcmi. Save your seat at pittsburghlectures.org 🔗

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