American Youth Journalism Corps

Aubrey Bruce

 

Aubrey Bruce, founder of both the American Youth Journalism Corps and Urban Pulse Network. has enjoyed a successful career as a musician, journalist and music promoter, simultaneously.  Bruce has produced live performances and performed alongside and with such artists as George Benson, Chick Corea, Jean Luc-Ponty, Diane Reeves, Roy Ayers and Norman Connors and the late Phyllis Hyman.  Bruce began his journalism career  as a freelance  writer and reporter with the New Pittsburgh Courier in 1979.  From the early to mid l980s and continuing throughout the 1990s he was a beat reporter and sports reporter/columnist for the publication. As the new millennium began he departed the NPC to pen a lifestyles column for the McKeesport Daily News opposite ‘Miss Manners’. He returned to the NPC in 2002 to again take the reins as the senior sports columnist for the newspaper which was voted as the #1 sports section in America in 2014 by the NNPA. He remains one of the regions and the nation’s leading sports columnists’.

 

Aubrey Bruce and Late Pittsburgh Mayor Bob O’Connor

 

Pittsburgh Mayor Bob O'Connor died last night at 8:55, ending his fight with a brain cancer diagnosed when he was just six months into the job he had sought for a decade.One hundred minutes later, City Council President Luke Ravenstahl (at 26 years of age) was sworn in as the 59th mayor of Pittsburgh. He became the youngest mayor in the history of the city.

Mr. O'Connor, 61, died at UPMC Shadyside less than two months after being diagnosed with primary central nervous system T-cell lymphoma, a rare variant of an unusual cancer of the brain and spinal cord.

Chick Corea and Aubrey Bruce

Ronnie Laws, Aubrey (BET Soul Train Awards)1994 Los Angeles, CA