Two Black Pittsburgh artists — Charles “Teenie” Harris and Roger Humphries — have been recognized with permanent tributes in the city.
The late photographer Harris captured Black history through his pictures of everyday life. Most of his images were shot for The Pittsburgh Courier — at one time the most widely circulated Black newspaper in the country — over several decades in the mid-20th century. These images are housed in the permanent collection of the Carnegie Museum of Art.
On Friday, Sept. 27, Preservation Pittsburgh honored Harris posthumously with a state historical marker erected outside his former house in Homewood where he lived for decades. His darkroom was in his basement.
Dozens of onlookers attended the short ceremony outside the house on Mulford Street, including Harris’ children who had grown up in the now-vacant, two-story structure…