WQED Pittsburgh's Black History and "Black Horizons" Preservation and Access Project

FAIN: PW-290626-23

WQED Multimedia (Pittsburgh, PA 15213-2942)
Minette Seate (Project Director: July 2022 to present)

The digitization of 2,000 media assets relating to the Black experience in Pittsburgh, PA from WQED Multimedia.

This project would digitize and make accessible approximately 2,000 media assets from WQED Pittsburgh's “Black Horizons,” “Horizons,” and “OnQ” series, as well as documentaries produced under the “Black Horizons” umbrella and other Black history programs. This project would preserve the content and create searchable metadata related to the history and experience of the Black community in Pittsburgh. These programs bring to life the Black experience in Pittsburgh across a range of topics, elevating the voices of the region, from laypeople to leaders, on the issues of the day. WQED’s archive of Pittsburgh Black history would join other public media stations’ preserved content on the American Archive of Public Broadcasting, allowing scholars to more fully understand developments in Black history by revealing aspects of local histories that were covered in these programs.