{"id":26728,"date":"2025-10-02T11:10:30","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T15:10:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thesoulpitt.com\/main\/?p=26728"},"modified":"2025-10-02T11:11:03","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T15:11:03","slug":"pittsburgh-soul-food-doc-soul-food-festival-wins-mid-atlantic-emmy-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesoulpitt.com\/main\/pittsburgh-soul-food-doc-soul-food-festival-wins-mid-atlantic-emmy-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh Soul Food Doc &#8211; Soul Food Festival Wins Mid-Atlantic Emmy Award!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesoulpitt.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Soul-Food-Fest-FullLogo_NoBuffer.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-26729 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/thesoulpitt.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Soul-Food-Fest-FullLogo_NoBuffer-1016x1024.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"564\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesoulpitt.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Soul-Food-Fest-FullLogo_NoBuffer-1016x1024.png 1016w, https:\/\/thesoulpitt.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Soul-Food-Fest-FullLogo_NoBuffer-298x300.png 298w, https:\/\/thesoulpitt.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Soul-Food-Fest-FullLogo_NoBuffer-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/thesoulpitt.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Soul-Food-Fest-FullLogo_NoBuffer-768x774.png 768w, https:\/\/thesoulpitt.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Soul-Food-Fest-FullLogo_NoBuffer.png 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">In August 2023 we contacted WQED&#8217;S President and complained about the lack of Black Food representation in its programming and requested WQED to do a story on Pittsburgh Soul Food and our Festival &#8211; WQED Staff agreed and later covered the 2023 Soul Food Festival and then produced a Pittsburgh Soul Food Documentary. See Documentary:<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a id=\"m_2981725814994791361m_-6805314853936769357linkextractor__1759413998297\" href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/Q8HxSNsqxSo?si=BzA1KDZvz0MQ9Gxw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/youtu.be\/Q8HxSNsqxSo?si%3DBzA1KDZvz0MQ9Gxw&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1759503460839000&amp;usg=AOvVaw3ZvbQxL2SFEIrQJpHNdZKl\">Pittsburgh&#8217;s Soul Food<\/a><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/Q8HxSNsqxSo?si=BzA1KDZvz0MQ9Gxw\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-26731\" src=\"https:\/\/thesoulpitt.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/WQED-PghSoulFood.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"440\" height=\"296\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesoulpitt.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/WQED-PghSoulFood.png 440w, https:\/\/thesoulpitt.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/WQED-PghSoulFood-300x202.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 440px) 100vw, 440px\" \/><\/a><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">We are extremely excited to announce that on September 20th, 2025 WQED won a Mid-Atlantic EMMY Award for the Pittsburgh Soul Food Documentary:\u00a0 &#8220;2025 Emmy Recipients &#8211; NATAS Mid-Atlantic ChapterNATAS Mid-Atlantic Chapter\u00a0<a id=\"m_2981725814994791361m_-6805314853936769357yiv2272540633linkextractor__1759413654097\" href=\"https:\/\/natasmid-atlantic.org\/2025-emmy-recipients\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/natasmid-atlantic.org\/2025-emmy-recipients\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1759503460839000&amp;usg=AOvVaw3ozKEmYArxXap-Ta1gyfhc\">2025 Emmy Recipients &#8211; NATAS Mid-Atlantic Chapter<\/a><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/natasmid-atlantic.org\/2025-emmy-recipients\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-26730\" src=\"https:\/\/thesoulpitt.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/WQED-PghSoulFoodEMMY.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"442\" height=\"394\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesoulpitt.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/WQED-PghSoulFoodEMMY.png 442w, https:\/\/thesoulpitt.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/WQED-PghSoulFoodEMMY-300x267.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 442px) 100vw, 442px\" \/><\/a><\/h3>\n<div>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">We are very proud to see Pittsburgh Black Food Entrepreneurs and Pittsburgh Black history being recognized around the world!<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">Get Ready for the 2026 Pittsburgh Soul Food Festival in Downtown Pittsburgh PA<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thesoulpitt.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/2026-PGH-SOUL-FOOD-FEST-Save-The-Date_WEB-FILE.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-26732\" src=\"https:\/\/thesoulpitt.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/2026-PGH-SOUL-FOOD-FEST-Save-The-Date_WEB-FILE-742x1024.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"595\" height=\"821\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesoulpitt.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/2026-PGH-SOUL-FOOD-FEST-Save-The-Date_WEB-FILE-742x1024.png 742w, https:\/\/thesoulpitt.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/2026-PGH-SOUL-FOOD-FEST-Save-The-Date_WEB-FILE-217x300.png 217w, https:\/\/thesoulpitt.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/2026-PGH-SOUL-FOOD-FEST-Save-The-Date_WEB-FILE-768x1060.png 768w, https:\/\/thesoulpitt.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/2026-PGH-SOUL-FOOD-FEST-Save-The-Date_WEB-FILE.png 783w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 595px) 100vw, 595px\" \/><\/a><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>For more information: <\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Asoulfultastepgh@gmail.com | 724.205.9376<\/strong><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In August 2023 we contacted WQED&#8217;S President and complained about the lack of Black Food representation in its programming and requested WQED to do a story on Pittsburgh Soul Food and our Festival &#8211; WQED Staff agreed and later covered &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thesoulpitt.com\/main\/pittsburgh-soul-food-doc-soul-food-festival-wins-mid-atlantic-emmy-award\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"xn-wppe-expiration":["2026-09-02 00:00"],"xn-wppe-expiration-action":["to_drafts"],"xn-wppe-expiration-prefix":[],"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[104],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-festivals"],"aioseo_notices":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-12 17:33:42","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesoulpitt.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesoulpitt.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesoulpitt.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesoulpitt.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesoulpitt.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26728"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thesoulpitt.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26734,"href":"https:\/\/thesoulpitt.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26728\/revisions\/26734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesoulpitt.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesoulpitt.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesoulpitt.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}