DJ ⭑ Actor ⭑ Creator ⭑ Previously & sometimes still a journalist ⭑ Resident DJ at The Underground / Mixtape / Umami ⭑ Inquiries: rojorecordsofficial
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This is a sight you don’t see every day. The pedaling protesters have made their way to Oakland. Rolling down Forbes now. What a cool way to spread the message of
#BlackLivesMatter
.
@KDKA
Today marks three years for me here at
@KDKA
! Thanks to everyone who has continued to uplift and support me throughout the many challenges these past three years have presented. Hopefully, I will continue to uplift and support YOU in the best way possible. Cheers! 🥂
Sending a happy heavenly birthday to my mama Sandra who we sadly lost in March and have been missing every second since.💔 Today feels so weird not making dinner plans, toasting red wine until our teeth turn purple and celebrating your love & brightness.🎂
Love you forever. 🙏🏽
PEDALING FOR A PURPOSE: 🚴🏾♂️💨People are meeting in Mellon Park this morning for a
#BlackLivesMatter
protest. Instead of marching, they’ll ride to Schenley Park.
@PghPolice
are escorting the group making sure they’re safe!
@KDKA
A protestor just helped a blind woman make her way through a peaceful crowd here at Centre and Negley Ave. They also just cleared the sidewalk for her during their moment of silence.
@KDKA
GO MAMA 💞
My mama finished chemo + radiation at McGee today. Totally flew by! She’s not cancer free yet. More treatment to go. But she will surely enjoy not waking up for daily treatments any longer! 😅👏🏽 Thanks UPMC and your amazing staff!
#CancerJourney
#BellsOfJoy
Today in McKeesport:
This is NOT a bar crawl.
People are protesting the booze ban in Allegheny County and patronizing 5 local bars. Drinks are to-go. $100 tab open at each place. Bartenders tipped separately. Bottles instead of picket signs. Police are escorting them.
@KDKA
This is little Daphne, the puppy who was dognapped last night and returned this morning. Despite having an insane 24 hours she still has so much energy and love. Hear from her owners about how this whole thing went down and the latest from police tonight on
@KDKA
.
The flashbacks! Now you KNOW we all have that ONE Auntie!
HUD Sec. Marcia Fudge got the manners in the briefing room ALL the way together.
And we love to see it. 😌
PINCH ME: 🎉 Today marks one year since landing my dream job with KDKA.
365 days later and coming to work STILL gives me butterflies.
Everyday I wake up feeling BLESSED.
Looking forward to another chapter and many more!
See y’all tomorrow.
MINI ST. PATTY’S DAY PARADE 🍀 Parade organizers from the ORIGINAL parade, which was postponed, had a smaller scale version this AM to celebrate the Irish heritage. They were led by
@PghPolice
escort.
@KDKA
I am so blessed and thankful to be part of such an amazing team of people. Thank you for making this day so special. I am not easily surprised either... but y’all got me with this one! 😅🎓🎊
DON’T CALL IT A COMEBACK 🥳
Everyone has been asking where I’m headed next and I am finally ready to spill the beans.
I am coming home to
#Pittsburgh
.
Details 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽
Was grabbing coffee earlier when I spotted the legendary Jon Burnett. 📺He’s doing well. Enjoying retirement. And has grown a big grey beard. First met him back when I was a
@KDKA
intern. One of the purest and brightest spirits you could ever encounter.
#BREAKING
: Don Hall, Gateway's Athletic Director just confirmed with me that he's reached out to every HS football coach in PA, requesting they NOT apply for Eric Kasperowicz's job in support of the coach.
@KDKA
BEAUTIFUL SOULS ❤️ This small collective meets outside the Allegheny County Jail every week to supply people being released with bus passes, food, gift cards and other items to help them on their way. Today they’re also offering info about
#COVID19
.
@KDKA
My sister decided I should have a Halloween cake for my birthday this year. 👻 And I talked her into making me lasagna. 🍝 Had a great day celebrating with family.
#ScorpioSeason
Protestors moving through Point Breeze. Just passed Penn and Dallas Avenues. Chanting names of police brutality victims as they march. Crowd has grown. Roughly 300. Supposed to converge with another protest in Wilkinsburg for Romir Talley soon.
@KDKA
Demonstrators have taken to the lawn at St. Clair Park in Greensburg chanting some of
#GeorgeFloyd
’s final words “I cant breathe.” Hands behind their backs, laying on their stomachs.
@KDKA
TROLLED: My mom is tearing me up over the way I was walking through this field! 🤦🏽♂️
She said I was “tip toeing through the tulips.” 😂
Y’all I have NEVER been known to mess up my white sneaks! PERIOD!
Happy
#Thanksgiving
!
All ready to bring you up to speed on all things news over on Pittsburgh CW at 10 and KDKA-TV at 11. Are you here for this look? 🦃
@KDKA
SOUND ON: DJ’s across the
#Pittsburgh
area are blowing the dust off their equipment today and laying down the 1s and 2s in more than 20 neighborhoods to cheer people up. Can’t wait to share this with you tonight at 6:00 on
@KDKA
.
BREAKING: Allegheny County Police just confirmed with me over the phone an officer was shot in McKeesport around 4:00pm. Officer transported to hospital. Police are looking for suspect.
@KDKA
Filled with gratitude being named one of NKASD’s distinguished alumni. This is such a great honor. Oh, how I wish my mama could see all of her hard work paying off. ❤️
Got to hang with my sister and her crazy kitten “Monte” this weekend. This is how he likes to relax, by perching on your shoulders. 🐱 What a cutie right? See you later on
@KDKA
.
Traded birthday leftovers with my birthday twin
@RayPetelinWx
.
He gave me these homemade pierogis from the Mrs. 🥟 in exchange for vanilla cake with raspberry filling. 🎂 When I tell you these pierogis were THE BOMB… I mean it! 🔥
Thanks, Ray (And Mrs. P)!
The crowd has fallen into 8 minutes and 46 seconds of complete silence. That’s how long
#GeorgeFloyd
laid under that officer’s knee unable to breathe.
@KDKA
Coming up for air from what has been a super heavy week and reflecting on this moment. This is the first big award I have won for journalism. Grateful to do something I’m passionate about every day (telling stories) and honored to be recognized by
@PghPressClub
. Thank you! 🙏🏽
#BREAKING
: School bus drivers and monitors with the Teamster Local 249 union just voted down their contract with ABC Transit 31-6 and authorized a strike. This will impact about 46 hundred students in the North Hills SD. Union members plan to go on strike at 12am.
@KDKA
My heart is so full tonight 💙
Ohio Valley, you welcomed me into your homes, gave me the honor of telling your stories and accepted me as my most authentic self. I will cherish every memory made here. Stay tuned for what's next.
Love you always,
- RJ
SOUTH-SIDE - If you heard a baby crying outside your door what would you do? Pittsburgh Police say keep your door SHUT and call POLICE. Here’s why 👇🏽
@KDKA
#BREAKING
: Beginning Monday Allegheny County will require ALL new hires to be vaccinated.
🔸Current employees who are unvaccinated must wear face coverings at work and be tested regularly (once or twice a week).
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Parts of Liberty Avenue Downtown are closed as demonstrators have started lining up in support of
#GeorgeFloyd
.
@KDKA
We’re streaming on
#CBSN
Pittsburgh.
When I see gas for $4.99 a gallon at one gas station and $5.15 at another location right around the corner it becomes increasingly harder to convince me that these companies aren’t taking advantage of us. Somebody needs to intervene, expeditiously.
BEHIND THE SCENES: My photographer Gerome and I said we both look like two old men sitting outside playing a chess game while we wait for our 11PM live shot. 🤣 You agree? ♟
How cute are my babies? Maurice on the left. Monica on the right. They sit on my desk and keep me abreast to ALL the tea that happens around the station. And YES he got plaits. Get into it.
SHOW CANCELLED: Tonight I sat down with two of our local drag performers about the threats they revived ahead of a show in WV late last month. The situation got so out of hand the show needed cancelled due to safety. Watch the story at 11 on
@KDKA
.
ABUSE EXPOSED: A movement on Twitter is encouraging sexual assault survivors to name their abusers.
Now countless survivors from a
#Pittsburgh
university are coming forward with claims they were abused on campus.
Watch my full report tonight at 11 on
@KDKA