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Date of publication: May 30, 2007

Source: TRIBUNE-REVIEW

Author: Jeremy Boren

Excerpt from article:

The city-county Sports & Exhibition Authority on Tuesday promised to hire minorities to help build Pittsburgh's planned $290 million hockey arena and sided with a human rights group that wants the Pirates not to sell sports merchandise made in sweatshops.

Tim Stevens, executive director of the Black Political Empowerment Project, told SEA board members that he believes minorities historically have been left out of union construction jobs -- including the David L. Lawrence Convention Center, where the authority has met since it opened in 2003...