There are yellow envelopes in the mail this week to 11,108 St. Louis city and county families – envelopes that may contain an answer to prayers. Donors from the United Church of Christ came up with over $60,000 and the Deaconess Foundation donated $40,000. With that $100,000 donation, the ch…
On Dr. Martin Luther King Day, January 20, the Urban League of Metropolitan St. Louis held a ribbon-cutting ceremony for its new Community Resource Center in the Martin Luther King Shopping Plaza on Page Boulevard. The MLK Center, which was given to the Urban League for use rent-free by Bace…
We commend heartily the leadership of the United Church of Christ, 14 St. Louis churches, and the Deaconess Foundation in raising the money to abolish $12.9 million in medical debt for 11,108 St. Louis families in 78 Zip codes — and for the messages they sent in announcing their philanthropy.
It’s St. Louis, so of course there is a white police officers’ association and a black police officers’ association. Both released an official statement addressing the federal lawsuit filed by Circuit Attorney Kimberly Gardner alleging racial bias in the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Departm…
The bone chilling cold didn’t stop area residents from coming out to honor the life and legacy of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. On the federal holiday observed in his honor. About 150 or so people gathered in the Old Courthouse to hear remarks by local political figures ahead of the annual…
The Bible reveals to us, in Proverbs 22:1, that “a good name is more desirable than great riches.” That’s a lesson the East St. Louis Township Supervisor Alvin Parks is learning the hard way.
Some criminal defendants in St. Louis County who cannot afford an attorney may face more delays in getting one.
For more than a year, Wellston residents locked arms to fight against the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s decision in August 2018 to demolish 200 of the city’s public housing units.
(St. Louis Public Radio) - Before being released from prison, Melvin Hill Jr. was doing everything in his power to secure a sustainable job that would allow him to fulfill his lifelong goals.
Gynecologic oncologist Dineo Khabele, MD, noted for her expertise in ovarian cancer research and treatment, has been named head of the Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. Khabele, whose appointment becomes effective June 1, also…
This is an MLK weekend more than 11,000 families in St. Louis City and County won't soon forget as the United Church of Christ blessed them with a cure for their medical debt. It took $100,000 -- UCC church bodies donated $60,000, along with a $40,000 donation from Deaconess Foundation to bu…
“The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy,” said Martin Luther King Jr. “Instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it. Through violence you may murder the liar, but you cannot murder the lie, nor establish the truth. T…
The Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) and the Missouri Community Forestry Council (MCFC) are accepting nominations for the 2020 Missouri Arbor Award of Excellence. The annual award recognizes communities, institutions, businesses, organizations and individuals that make significant a…
All City of St. Louis civil service employees will be guaranteed a $15 per hour minimum wage, effective mid-February, as per Executive Order #65, which was signed by Mayor Lyda Krewson on Friday, January 17.
The 2020 census is this year’s most empowering and democratic event for the United States.
(St. Louis Public Radio) - As a child, Nichole McHenry envisioned herself broadcasting the news, just like famed St. Louis anchor Robin Smith.
I recently moved to St. Louis (in June 2019) after graduating from Morehouse School of Medicine in Atlanta. I was shocked at how prevalent the disparities in the region were. Many of my peers had a hard time believing what I was being exposed to. So I created a video as a way to display the …
What happens in the world has as much impact on African Americans as everyone else, yet there has always been an African-American school of thought that says foreign affairs is white folks’ business and we put our agenda at risk when we engage on that issue. Nothing could be more wrong.
On January 25, the Organization for Black Struggle will celebrate its 40th anniversary. The group, which rose to national prominence during the Ferguson uprising, was founded in 1980 by a group of students, veteran activists, and union organizers, among others, who believed that the needs of…
When State’s Attorney of Baltimore Marilyn Mosby came into office in 2015, she immediately tried to use her power to address wrongful convictions and implement other criminal justice reforms.
St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kimberly Gardner can rightly claim a number of momentous firsts, and they are interrelated. She was the first African American elected as the city’s chief prosecutor. She was the first prosecutor to charge a sitting Missouri governor with a felony. And she was the …
On August 19, 1979, I woke up at my home across the street from Homer G. Phillips Hospital to helicopters flying overhead. To my surprise, the St. Louis Police Department had surrounded the hospital. The streets of The Ville neighborhood were barricaded for four blocks in every direction. Ph…
On Tuesday, January 14, the organizers of the Close the Workhouse campaign held a press conference showcasing their new report “Close the Workhouse: A Plan and a Vision.” This report showcases the dramatic drop in St. Louis city jail populations over the past year and proposes a two-year pat…
The Saint Louis Zoo wants the public to advise its leadership on how to develop its new 425-acre North Campus in Spanish Lake.
Updated at 1/14/19 at 10:58 a.m. to add response from City spokesman.
New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker became the third Democratic presidential hopeful in as many weeks to drop out of the race Monday, announcing he was suspending his campaign.
“When the United States uses military force, the American people and members of the United States Armed Forces deserve a credible explanation regarding such use of military force. The War Powers Resolution requires the President to consult with Congress ‘’in every possible instance’’ before …
(St. Louis Public Radio) - Rep. Raychel Proudie, of Ferguson, will be the only Democrat in the Missouri House of Representatives to head up a committee in the 2020 session.
The newly opened St. Louis Aquarium at Union Station is getting all of the attention these days, but St. Louis has had beautiful aquariums for many decades at the Saint Louis Zoo – which recently was granted accreditation by the Association of Zoos & Aquariums (AZA).
Spoken on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives in support of H.Con.Res 83, a War Powers Resolution he co-cosponsored, limiting the president’s military actions regarding Iran.
Two of the largest library systems in the St. Louis region are axing fines for overdue library materials.
The world we exist in today is a sad reminder of what the prediction was of “rumors of war" in Matthew 24:6: “And ye shall hear of wars and rumors of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet.”
The weekend before Christmas, 20-year-old Gabriel Lockett sat in the back of a long tow-truck bed — in front of six life-sized, lit-up reindeers. His mentor, Darren Seals, dressed up as Santa and sat in a sleigh, ringing a bell.
Anita Louis Jenkins Banks died January 2, 2020. She had just celebrated her 95th birthday on December 3, 2019 with extended family and friends. The widow of the late Senator J.B. “Jet” Banks, Anita was an active member in her Community and her Church. She was a Commissioner of the Dr. Mar…
For the last several months the columns I’ve written have had something to with the 2020 Democratic Presidential Primary, and I’d now like to bring some closure to at least this part of that process. I referred to this part of process like preseason NFL football: it has nothing to do with wh…
It now has been three weeks since Dr. Will Ross, a professor and senior leader at Washington University School of Medicine and historian of Homer G. Philips Hospital, wrote to developer Paul McKee Jr. about McKee’s announced decision to name a new three-bed urgent care center after the histo…
This story is part of a collaborative-reporting initiative with St. Louis Public Radio supported by the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting. It was reported by William H. Freivogel and Mimi Wright.
June 24, 1923 - November 22, 2019
Calvin Richard Cooksey was born on October 21, 1935 in St. Louis, Missouri and passed away in his beloved hometown on January 1, 2020. He was a loving son, brother, father and grandfather to his seven children, nineteen grandchildren, fifteen great-grandchildren, and one great-great grandch…
A new year is supposed to usher in hope and new possibilities. Sadly, there is little in the St. Louis region’s history that exudes the promise of change. I am the eternal optimist only because I put my faith in everyday people, not the corrupt and incompetent people who thrive off power and…
Soldan Class of 1970, passed away in Las Vegas, Nevada on November 18, 2019. He is survived by his wife, Karin, sons, James LaMar and Sean Michael, daughter, Corrine grandsons, Antonio and Jace, granddaughter, Dynah, sisters, Elaine Moore and Dorothy (Marvin) Neals, brother, Michael (Diane)…
January 7 marked the sesquicentennial of the Missouri General Assembly ratifying the 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution that extended voting rights to male African Americans and former slaves. It declared that voting rights “shall not be denied or abridged by the United States, or by an…
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St. Louis University is starting a program to train doctors to treat patients with addictions. The university’s school of medicine will operate the state’s first addiction medicine fellowship.
Retired Congressman William L. “Bill” Clay submitted this piece in response to news reports that developer Paul McKee Jr. plans to use the name “Homer G. Phillips Hospital” for a new, small urgent-care clinic. “It is apparent that many in the St. Louis community are unfamiliar with the histo…
This is the first in a series where we ask local leaders what we need to do differently to address the crisis in homicides in St. Louis.
Thirty-seven-year-old former South Bend, Indiana mayor Pete Buttigieg is an openly gay military veteran, Harvard graduate and Rhodes Scholar who speaks eight languages. He has gained attention as the youngest amidst the current slate of Democratic candidates. But it’s his ongoing struggle to…
The St. Louis Area Foodbank, with support from the Bayer Fund, is addressing hunger by providing school food markets at no cost for students and their families in selected school districts in the greater St. Louis area.
St. Louis’ two largest library systems are going fine-free starting this month. St. Louis County Library (SLCL) and St. Louis Public Library (SLPL) announced today that they will no longer charge fines on late materials beginning in the new year.
(St. Louis Public Radio) - Freddie Lee James Jr. has long been a sauce man.
“As you know, we have traditionally invited the nation’s leading scholars to reflect on Dr. King’s social justice legacy in contemporary times,” Dr. Will Ross of Washington University School of Medicine said of the school’s annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Lecture. “This year our ‘leading s…
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