{"id":127111,"date":"2026-03-02T02:59:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T02:59:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/127111\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T02:59:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T02:59:06","slug":"pittsburgh-public-schools-students-compete-in-african-american-history-challenge-wpxi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/127111\/","title":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh Public Schools students compete in African American history challenge \u2013 WPXI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">PITTSBURGH \u2014 Students at Pittsburgh Greenway participated in the 32nd annual African American History Challenge Bowl on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">The event marked the conclusion of Pittsburgh Public Schools\u2019 Black History Month activities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">The competition featured teams of students in grades six through eight who were tested on their historical knowledge. High school teams also competed for the opportunity to represent Pittsburgh at a national-level competition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Students involved in the competition spent weeks preparing to be quizzed on various aspects of Black history. Educators noted that the preparation process and the event itself serve as an important educational tool beyond the competitive element.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">\u201cIt gives the students a chance to learn about their history, other things besides the usual Martin Luther King Jr., Frederick Douglass,\u201d teacher James Ogg said. \u201cIt gives them a chance to learn about other people as well.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Download the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/mobile-apps\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FREE WPXI News app<\/a> for breaking news alerts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Follow Channel 11 News on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/wpxi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WPXI\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>. | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/video\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Watch WPXI NOW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>TOP STORIES FROM CHANNEL 11 NEWS <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph body-copyright\">\u00a92026 Cox Media Group<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PITTSBURGH \u2014 Students at Pittsburgh Greenway participated in the 32nd annual African American History Challenge Bowl on Friday.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":127112,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[59279,59280,12910,59278,47998,59276,59277,59275,6953,94,73,75,74,940,3315],"class_list":["post-127111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-african-american-history","tag-african-american-history-challenge","tag-black-history","tag-black-history-competition","tag-black-history-month","tag-black-history-quiz","tag-black-history-test","tag-black-trivia","tag-challenge","tag-history","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-pittsburgh-public-schools","tag-students"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127111","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=127111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127111\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/127112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}