Cole could locate no dedicated studies of Black Sewickley — and so had to write her own. It was a history that “urgently needs to be tapped,” Cole declared in the introduction to the book ...

Shelley Murray saves memories. She collects messy boxes of images, documents and newspaper clippings and sorts, organizes, ...

recorded alive by working on funds for a documentary based on her mother’s book “Their Story,” published in 2000, which tells the history of Blacks and African Americans in Sewickley and ...