{"id":124716,"date":"2026-02-27T02:18:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T02:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/124716\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T02:18:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T02:18:08","slug":"pittsburgh-public-schools-hosts-fourth-annual-black-men-read-initiative-to-inspire-students-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/124716\/","title":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh Public Schools hosts fourth annual \u2018Black Men Read\u2019 initiative to inspire students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Pittsburgh Public Schools embraced the power of reading!<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Thursday was the fourth annual \u2018Black Men Read\u201d initiative.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">We stopped by Pittsburgh Whittier, where Superintendent Wayne Walters was sharing a story with students.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The initiative brings black male leaders to different schools to read to young students.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The goal is to promote literacy, empowerment, representation and a life-long love of reading.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Research has shown the importance of reading to young kids.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Researchers from Ohio State University have said children who are read to often know and say more words than kids who are never read to.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Download the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/mobile-apps\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:FREE WPXI News app;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">FREE WPXI News app<\/a> for breaking news alerts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Follow Channel 11 News on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/wpxi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Facebook;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WPXI\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Twitter;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Twitter<\/a>. | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/video\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Watch WPXI NOW;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Watch WPXI NOW<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh Public Schools embraced the power of reading! Thursday was the fourth annual \u2018Black Men Read\u201d initiative. We&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":67136,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[26504,73,75,74,940,58466],"class_list":["post-124716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-black-men","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-pittsburgh-public-schools","tag-wayne-walters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124716\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}