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Harambee parade in Homewood at the end of Parade

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First this video was shot live on twitter and was downloaded from the periscope .com cause they are getting rid of periscope which was the live streaming .com Twitter was using. When the live video was shot the quality was good when downloading live streams there is always the risk of something that goes wrong! I shot his parade in 2017 in Homewood to document the parade as I photographed the festival. This was the ending of the parade coming back on to Kelly street where it started from.  This was an annual event in Homewood till 2020 and the corona virus hopefully when it passes then this and many other events will start up again!    Now about Harambee. "The Harambee Ujima Black Arts and Culture Association is a cultural collaboration that advocates and advances the Black Arts Movement in order to preserve all forms of Black Art in the greater Pittsburgh region. “Harambee” is a Kenyan word meaning “together” and “Ujima” is the Kwanzaa principle meaning “collective work and respo

Marcus Ptomey Interview on Movie Premiere From Twitter live

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This video was shot live on twitter and was downloaded from the periscope .com cause they are getting rid of periscope which was the live streaming .com Twitter was using. When the live video was shot the quality was good when downloading live streams there is always the risk of something that goes wrong! I do apologize about the 70s audio look. Listen to Marcus Ptmoney talk about his movie premiere in Pittsburgh called "Daddy a father days story". This Pittsburgh premiere was shown Father's day in 2018. After being in several movies as extras Ptmoney says, "Making films is my art, you know its my passion I love doing drama and I have been doing plays forever and I always wanted to be in films". GOD Gets the Glory Films LLC is a Christian Film Making Company based out of Pittsburgh, PA. The owner of this company is Marcus Ptomey, native of Pittsburgh, PA. To find out more about the independent film makers from Pittsburgh check out their facebook page: https:

May 2020 Protest against County Jail to release Inmates Due to Pandemic

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Protest call for freeing inmates to be released due to the pandemic from the Allegheny County Jail (ACJ). Protesters drove around the Allegheny County Court House in their cars with signs on the cars. Some signs read "flatten the curve inside the  ACJ", "Arrests are death sentences", "Free Them All" , "Everybody's got a right to live". Fawn Walker-Montgomery, Take Action Mon Valley executive director and co-founder says, "the inmates and the staff in there, we need to make sure they can social distance in there".   Full interview starts at 20:13  At the beginning of the Pandemic in March 1, 2020 there were 2,224 inmates inside the ACJ at March 31, 2020 there were 1,564 inmates housed inside the jail. It is unclear how many inmates were let out of the ACJ to date due to the Corona Virus pandemic.  To support the channel Please support the art and by your prints of my photography here to support my channel: https://18ricco.viewbug.com

EXCLUSIVE 1-ON-1 Interview with Wilkinsburg Mayor Marita Garrett

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Wilkinsburg Council Censured Mayor Marita Garrett in January 2021 at council meeting in Jan. This interview Mayor Garrett tells us about the censure, Issues in Wilkinsburg, campaigns, among other things. sit down and watch this exclusive 1 on 1 interview with Mayor Marita Garrett. #18ricco

Zion Baptist Church in McKeesport 2020

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This service was shot live via my Twitter account at the beginning of the Pandemic of 2020. This was right before the shut down. Preaching the service is Rev. Richard W. Truss of Zion Baptist Church in McKeesport. This is a powerful sermon I hope you get great value from it as well!! #18ricco

Pittsburgh Vintage Grand Prix race from the track

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This video was shot live on twitter and was just downloaded from my files from periscope. I tweaked it as much as I could without messing it up even more I cut out most the the empty track so you can se all the cars going past due to it taking the cars about 1-2 mins to complete the track and come back around to where I was recording from. This is the Pittsburgh Vintage Grand prix races that are held every year. Beside corona virus 2020 so far for the past 37 years. Pittsburgh Vintage Grand Prix (PVGP) raises money for autism and autism research. you can find out more intel on PVGP at https://www.pvgp.org/ ​ to find out more about the cause or car shows or races! Hope you enjoy the race.

Youth and Police sit together and have a positive Conversation at Perry ...

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This video was shot live on twitter 3 years ago in 2018 at Perry High school in Pittsburgh Pa . Working with the school and police to bring police and youth together to have a conversation with each other. The students met with police and had a conversation and asked questions that they might of been able to of had or asked before. This way they all can get to know each other and feel easier to deal with one another if they ever met in the street. At least that was the idea to better engagement between youth and police of Pittsburgh. We were also working on doing this and other positive activities with police and youth moving forward. You can hear some of the conversations they were having as I was walking around and participating in some of the conversation. Again this video was shot live, streamed on Twitter and I was just able to download it I do apologize for the quality of the video!!!

Beth Pittinger speaking at B-Pep Press conference

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Tim Stevens at B-Pep Press Conference

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B-Pep Press Conference On Police Reform Review

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Things we need to do to survive

 So I am new to the group and am thankful for being part of it with yinz!!! I am a photographer and videographer and I just got into health and wellness products for a few reasons. 1 being we all are not taking care of ourselves like we should be and some are more stressed then not cause of the times we are facing today. There are so many different products here skin care to sublimates that may help with taking care of you!!! And hey guys ukno valentines day is coming up there are a few ideas coming up.. lol Let me know what yinz think and I will post my photography site in another post or in comments https://www.seacretdirect.com/wvm6193776/en/us/  #18ricco #riccojlmartello #healthandwellness

Andrew Lee Driven to cure 2016 Interview at Pittsburgh Vintage Grand Prix

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I met Andrew Lee while covering the Pittsburgh Vintage Grand Prix (PVGP) in 2016. This video was a live stream video interview I did on my twitter and Periscope accounts. I was able to download it as this past month. I wanted to share this interview with Andrew cause of some of the things he did to help others even to this day after he pasted away in 2019. Andrew started the non profit called Driven To Cure (DTC) to help raise funds for research as well as bring awareness to different types of cancer. By time this video interview was done Andrew with DTC raised over 300,000 for research on cancer. Andrew past away in 2019 from his cancer however not without a fight as well as setting up an organization that will continue to help raise money and awareness to fight cancer for a long time. I want to thank Andrew Lee and his family again for allowing me to be able to do this interview. I was saddened to hear of Andrew's passing and want to give the Lee family my deepest condolences. Ra