It was one of the last remaining steel mills in the Mahoning Valley. To keep some of these historical artifacts from being scrapped or lost when the mill closed, YSU and the Youngstown Steel ...

Josh West, who grew up in Warren but now lives in Youngstown, was fascinated by an old Vindicator story about how black men who worked in the steel mills often were assigned the most dangerous jobs.

His father had left the family and gone north to work in the steel mills in Youngstown, Ohio. His mother worked as a cook and housekeeper. Gray lied about his age to get a job as a carpenter's ...