Yvonne McBride

Yvonne McBride is an author and oral historian based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She is a Flight School Fellow and a two-time recipient of the Advancing Black Arts in Pittsburgh Grant from The Pittsburgh Foundation and The Heinz Endowments. McBride is currently working on a historical fiction novel set in the Hill District during the jazz era.

Teenie Harris Archive

Civil Rights protestors in the Hill District

Beyond Urban Renewal: Fighting for the Future of the Hill District

There’s a spirit of resilience that runs through the streets of the Hill District. A hardness that outsiders shy away from but residents embrace.

Yvonne McBride

Beyond Urban Renewal: Fighting for the Future of the Hill District

By Yvonne McBride Mar 13, 2015