The Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) will hold basic archery instructor training for teachers from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. on Tuesday, June 25 at Living Word Christian Middle and High School, 1145 Tom Ginnever Ave. in O’Fallon. The session includes a 30-minute lunch break; however, lunc…
The St. Louis County Circuit Court will hire a full-time treatment court commissioner to handle the growing number of cases involving non-violent defendants with substance use disorders and mental illness. The new position is the first of its kind in St. Louis County. It was included in a bi…
The Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater St. Louis recently inducted new members into its Alumni Hall of Honor and presented a number of awards to staff, board members, volunteers and supporters.
The Humane Society of Missouri Animal Cruelty Task Force is offering a $2,500 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of persons responsible for the appalling mutilation of the ears of a 3-month-old female, pit bull puppy.
The National Sorority of Phi Delta Kappa, Inc., a professional organization of women in the field of education, will hold its biennial 96th anniversary Conclave on July 14-18 at the St. Louis Union Station Hotel in St. Louis. The Conclave’s theme is "Bold 21st Century Education: Cultural Rel…
"Historical ignorance.” That was the poignant phrase expressed at the second installment of trilogy held recently at Washington University. Dr. Cornell W. Brooks delivered a powerful address that wove together black and American history, biblical scriptures and contemporary issues. The trilo…
The lovefest that the St. Louis region underwent as the St. Louis Blues went from worst to first to win the Stanley Cup for the first time in franchise history made it clear who is the official, unofficial, and alternate favorite hockey team of the city. The team also is one signature – that…
Joshua Tyler will attend the American Film Institute in Los Angeles in the fall in an effort to diversify the media through producing films and other media.
After Robbie Williams finished the mile-long trek from St. Alphonsus Liguori “Rock” Catholic Church to the Boys and Girls Club of Greater St. Louis on North Grand, tears rolled down her face and her emotions boiled over.
With so much political and social stratification in a system by which people depend on resources for upward mobility and, in some instances, survival, it is alarming that St. Louis is without a daily black talk and information radio station or program.
The St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department needs to cut out its “cancer,” city residents testified at the aldermanic Public Safety Committee meeting on Monday, June 10. And the cancer is the police officers whose bias is so overwhelming that they’ve shown they can’t be in a position to tak…
In our editorial on February 7 titled “Federal judge has opportunity to issue landmark ruling,” we encouraged U.S. Judge Audrey G. Fleissig to seize the opportunity presented to her in David Dixon, et. al., v. City of St. Louis, et. al. to bust open the debtors’ prisons that the City of St. …
The Lessie Bates Davis Neighborhood House is a faith-based nonprofit agency in East St. Louis that has provided myriad services to low-income residents and others within the community for decades. Its mission is to improve the quality of life for residents of all ages, with the ultimate goal…
Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt recently released the 2018 Annual Report on vehicle stops, and once again people are outraged by the raw data. Currently, Missouri uses Census data as the benchmark for determining what the raw data means. Census benchmarking is inexpensive and uncompli…
Ben Cohen, co-founder of Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream, came to St. Louis on Wednesday, June 12 to promote the company’s national campaign — to Close the Workhouse and transform the criminal justice system. And Cohen arrived in St. Louis just as the advocates learned of a major victory in thei…
Reproductive Health Services of Planned Parenthood of the St. Louis region will continue operation as Missouri’s sole provider of abortion services, for the time being. Judge Michael Stelzer’s ruling on Monday, June 10, granted Planned Parenthood’s request for a preliminary injunction and gi…
I made myself a promise not to follow or comment on the Democratic presidential campaign until October or November, primarily because it a pointless exercise that will have nothing to do with who will win the Democratic nomination and whether or not that person can successfully defeat Donald…
(St. Louis Public Radio) - Missouri will continue to have legal access to abortion.
Dwaun J. Warmack is leaving Harris-Stowe State University, where he has served as president since 2015, to lead Claflin University in Orangeburg, South Carolina, which was founded in 1869 as the first South Carolina university open to all regardless of race. He will assume his new duties as …
Congressman Wm. Lacy Clay (D) Missouri urged Oversight and Reform Committee Chairman Elijah Cummings (D) Maryland to launch an immediate congressional investigation into the General Services Administration’s Public Building Service Management regarding what he calls "repeatedly, unresolved i…
Operation Food Search is doing its part to make sure area children do not go hungry during the summer months when they are not in school, by expanding its summer lunch program.
The St. Louis County Department of Public Health is reminding all residents to be cautious while flood waters remain and to follow all recommended protocols in the cleanup that will follow. Most accidents and injuries that occur due to a natural disaster happen during the cleanup that follow…
NEWPORT NEWS, Va. – A Madison, Illinois, native and 2013 Madison Senior High School graduate is serving in the U.S. Navy aboard the aircraft carrier USS George Washington.
Missouri Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft will face a legal challenge for his rejection of a referendum that would put the state legislature’s new abortion ban to a public vote – and was branded a “coward” by a prominent area women’s rights advocate.
Activists gave some St. Louis city police cars new “bumper stickers” on June 3, by projecting the images of current and former police officers’ discriminatory social media posts recently released by the Plain View Project.
Now both of the state senators from St. Louis are demanding accountability from the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department for a series of racist and bigoted messages and memes some of its current and former officers posted on social media, as the Plain View Project reported in Buzzfeed.
St. Louis Comptroller Darlene Green has good news about the fiscal health of St. Louis Lambert International Airport and its future.
North Webster is one of the oldest African-American communities in the St. Louis region. Longtime resident Kathryn Dehart remembers when black grocery stores and businesses flourished in the community.
Three courses of algebra stood between Amanda McCleary and a high school diploma.
We had an opportunity to advise young protestors during the Ferguson unrest, and one thing we warned them was that police officers are among the most protected of all Americans. Republicans support the police as protectors of private property and the status quo, and Democrats support them be…
The proposed demolition of the Wellston Housing Authority, a public housing development that serves almost entirely Black St. Louisans, paired with an insufficient plan for maintaining the Wellston community repeats a troubling pattern of disinvestment in historic black neighborhoods. We cal…
Ask Farragut Elementary School fifth graders to name the first African-American licensed pilot, and they will tell you Emory C. Malik. How do they know? The answer is an exciting, interactive curriculum and great community partners.
Black drivers are 91 percent more likely to be stopped in Missouri than white drivers, according to the Missouri attorney general’s 2018 Vehicle Stops report released on May 31.
The President of St. Louis Ethical Society of Police demanded that St. Louis police officers be fired after the Plain View Project published its review of social media posts by a number of St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department (SLMPD) officers with racist or bigoted content.
The Political EYE often has found Post-Dispatch reporters, editors and columnists in contempt of the black community and the standards of evidence-based journalism – especially in the paper’s dangerous addiction to huffing swirling rumors of alleged federal investigations into black public o…
95.5 The Lou (WFUN) & Hot 104.1 (WHHL) and Better Family Life will partner to promote a Wear Orange Day in a walk, Resource Fair and Day of Service on Saturday, June 8, 2019 starting at 10:00am. The walk will start at St. Alphonsus Liguori Catholic Church located at 1118 N Grand Blvd, St…
(St. Louis Public Radio) - St. Louis County Executive Sam Page is seeking to close a pay gap within county government between men and women.
(St. Louis Public Radio) - A St. Louis Circuit Court judge has delayed until Wednesday a hearing that could determine whether Missouri’s sole abortion clinic remains open. Judge Michael Stelzer ruled Tuesday that current and former independent doctors at Planned Parenthood will not have to testify.
Missouri’s medical marijuana boom is near.
After having just completed my very first session as a freshman legislator in the Missouri House of Representatives, I wanted to share some thoughts and observations.
It took a temporary restraining order from a St. Louis judge to keep abortion services operating at Planned Parenthood last week, as Missouri’s battle for the facility’s license moved from the statehouse in Jefferson City to downtown streets and to the courthouse, as women’s reproductive hea…
The Decarceration Collective was founded in 2016 by MiAngel Cody, with a mission to defend federal prisoners serving life for drugs. They serve as a premier collaboration of lawyers, community organizers, and criminal justice policy consultants working together to dismantle a system that has…
As Benjamin Franklin was leaving the Constitutional Convention he was approached by a woman who asked, “What have you given us, a monarchy or a republic? Franklin replied, ”A republic, madam, if you can keep it.”
St. Louis County Library and Operation Food Search are teaming up to provide lunches to children this summer at nine library locations starting June 3. Meals will be available free of charge for children ages 18 and under.
On May 19, Amanda Calhoun received her medical degree from Saint Louis University School of Medicine and officially became the third Dr. Calhoun.
Chef and civil rights activist Leah Chase, co-owner of the historic New Orleans eatery Dooky Chase, passed away Saturday according to a statement by the family. She was 96 years old.
ArchCity Defenders is partnering with St. Louis County Library and Mound City Bar Association to launch an updated version of Pro Se STL, two local guide booklets that provide information for representing oneself in municipal court and for knowing one’s rights with the police and getting out…
(St. Louis Public Radio) - Missouri's only abortion provider will remain open.
What your children don't know about money will cost them – dearly.
As the last abortion clinic in Missouri warned that it will have to stop providing the procedure as soon as Friday, abortion providers in surrounding states said they are anticipating an uptick of even more Missouri patients.
Did you know the president signed the historic act for African Americans back in January 2018? Oh, I guess you didn’t hear about the 400 Years of African American History Commission Act designed to acknowledge the four centuries plus of Africans being forced into U.S. chattel slavery. And yo…
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