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The AARP Foundation’s Senior Community Service Employment Program (SCSEP) is currently accepting applications from St. Louis City and County residents aged 55 and older who are looking for work.
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It’s been referred to by some media outlets as “a miracle in Missouri.”
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Nikola Jokic and Jamal Murray became the first team-mates to record a 30-point triple-double in the same game let alone a playoff game – as the Denver Nuggets dominated the Miami Heat 109-94 to take a 2-1 series lead in the NBA Finals.
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St. Louisan Sug Sutton has been making her mark early in the WNBA regular season with the Phoenix Mercury.
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While Florida’s NAACP travel advisory continues to draw reaction from throughout the nation and the world, Missouri NAACP President Nimrod Chapel Jr. says this state’s advisory remains in effect.
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Congresswoman Cori Bush says solutions to community problems often lie within the community residents themselves.
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It was 20 years ago this week that I humbly assumed the responsibilities of leadership of the National Urban League -- one of which is the honor to author this very column, To Be Equal, established by the esteemed Whitney M. Young, Jr.
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Before Bubba Wallace competed in the Enjoy Illinois 300 at World Wide Technology Raceway on Sunday, he spent a hot Friday afternoon with McDonald’s uber-entrepreneur Jimmy Williams and members of the East St. Louis community Wallace is honored to represent as NASCAR’s lone Black driver.
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Wesley Bell, St. Louis County prosecutor, announced Wednesday that he is running for U.S. Senate in the 2024 election. The office is held by Republican Josh Hawley, who won the seat formerly held by Claire McCaskill in 2018.
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In 1944, President Franklin Roosevelt signed the Servicemen’s Readjustment Act, which became one of the largest social investments ever made by the federal government.
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Since its inception in 2021, The St. Louis American Foundation’s annual Salute to Excellence in Health Care event has honored more than 200 outstanding African-American health care providers. This annual recognition event contributes to a deeper sense of pride in the community.
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Home-field advantage has long been a truism in sports. St. Louis CITY SC currently boasts a 6-2 record in eight home MLS matches so far. CITY has scored 22 goals and conceded six goals in those eight matches. The latest victory came Saturday in a 3-0 win against the Houston Dynamo.
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Metro Transit will host a hiring event at the North County Transit Center in Ferguson, MO, (3140 Pershall Road) on Saturday, June 10, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
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Ron Stodghill has been named publisher of Detour, a media company that specializes in Black travel content. Stodghill has been a professor at the University of Missouri-Columbia’s School of Journalism since 2017. He has written for Charlotte Magazine and the New York Times’ SundayBusiness, H…
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Missouri has a new baseball coach with Kirkwood and HBCU connections, and the hiring is of historic proportion.
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The state is still abuzz after St. Louis athletes dominated the MSHSAA State Track and Field Championships in Jefferson City last week.
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A mother who discovered a team to help her daughter, who has a communication disorder, communicate more confidently at school and home, says other Black parents in her situation should take note.
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Angelia Bills has joined the board of directors at Rx Outreach, the country’s largest non-profit, digital pharmacy. Bills is an experienced marketing professional and founder of Eagle Productions, a full-service marketing agency. She formerly worked at the Urban League of Metropolitan St. Lo…
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The Miami Heat used a fourth-quarter surge to stun the Denver Nuggets and take Game 2 of the NBA Finals 111-108.
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World Wide Technology Raceway (WWTR), Confluence Music Festival, The Wendell Scott Foundation and Neiman Marcus St. Louis partnered for Runway to Raceway, kicking off Nascar’s return to WWTR the first weekend of June.
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When Christopher Rogers, Sr., his wife Tamra and their five children returned home to St. Louis in 2001 to be close to family, they were in search of a church home. They were told that First Baptist Church of Chesterfield had a dynamic new pastor.
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"After a year of unprecedented attacks by state legislatures against the LGBTQIA+ community, Mayor Tishaura O. Jones joined leaders of local advocacy organizations to ring in Pride Month,Thursday, June 1, 2023, with the raising of the modern Pride flag outside City Hall."
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Queer As Funk 2 was everything but ordinary. The modern funk revue and burlesque show held Friday, May 26, at The Golden Record in the Cherokee Street neighborhood was not only a celebration for the LGBTQIA+ community, but was also a showcase of the art of seduction and sexual liberation.
While we all were told Offset, Takeoff and Quavo are cousins. The truth has come out.
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Latasha Barnes is the St. Louis Housing Authority’s new chief of staff. In this role, she serves as an advisor to the executive director and assists with daily operations management. Prior to joining the SLHA, Barnes dedicated more than a decade of service to the public-interest sector, most…
Nelson Mandela’s historic life and his pursuit of knowledge – even while held in prison – are brilliantly on display at the St. Louis Science Center.
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The Deaconess Foundation has established its Institute for Black Liberation, an effort to “healing the hurts of internalized racism.”
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Admittedly, we were looking forward to the unhurried pace that we typically enjoy in the days following Memorial Day. Alas, the short work week began with a fiery start on Tuesday afternoon when the aldermanic Housing, Urban Development, and Zoning (HUDZ) Committee met to discuss Board Bill …
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Nerinx Hall High School recently announced that Arsenia Hall will be the school’s next director of equity and inclusion. Most recently she served as outreach specialist for the Anti-Defamation League Heartland Region. Prior to joining ADL, Tate served as the director of anti-racist education…
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Affinia Healthcare has entered a partnership with City Hope St. Louis to provide healthcare services for unhoused individuals and families.
Area Resources for Community and Human Services (ARCHS) welcomes Roslyn Taylor as a director of family support initiatives. She brings experience from jobs at Harris-Stowe State University, University of Illinois, Urban League of Metropolitan St. Louis, Western Illinois University, and the Y…
Fetty Wap is living up to the lyrics in his mega hit “Trap Queen.” He’s getting high and distributing drugs in real life not just in music.
With the Enjoy Illinois 300 weekend ahead, it’s fitting that Xavier Jones would like to be a NASCAR driver.
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On a beautiful sunny Saturday afternoon, Saint and LaVada Rice sat outside of a downtown restaurant to talk about “No More Hiding Ministries (NMH).
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Several Black families resided in Kirkwood for decades before an expansion of Kirkwood Park cost them their longtime homes.
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The Denver Nuggets did not let an 11-day break between playoff series deter their quest for the franchise’s first NBA title.
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St. Louis County Library and Operation Food Search will provide lunches to children this summer at nine SLCL locations starting on June 5, 2023.
Everyone is wondering what’s going on with Raz B from B2K. A video is circulating of him on the roof of a hospital after reportedly breaking a window to flee.
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In 2018, as the featured comic on “This Is Not Happening,” the Comedy Central storytelling showhosted by Roy Wood Jr., Comedian B-Phlat delivered a routine that, in any other circumstance, might not have been funny.
Most U.S. adults believe colleges should be allowed to consider race as part of their admissions process.
St. Louis Circuit Attorney Gabe Gore was sworn in as St. Louis Circuit Attorney on Tuesday, and one of the first members of his new team was a key member of the Kim Gardner’s former team.
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In a recent essay, a Massachusetts General Hospital physician, Fatima Cody Stanford, MD, MPH, points out the myriad of hurdles and inequities that contribute to the underrepresentation in medicine that Black women still face. Dr. Stanford gives voice to the many frustrations that Black women…
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Tamika Mitchell is a Risk Assurance and Advisory Senior Manager and DEI Strategist at Armanino, the nation's 19th largest accounting and consulting firm based in San Ramon, California, with regional offices in St. Louis and St. Charles.
St. Louis native Brittish Williams, a cast member on the reality TV series “Basketball Wives” and co-host of “The Home Team Morning Show” on Hot 104.1 pleaded guilty Wednesday to 15 felonies, including pandemic fraud schemes. The frauds add up to $446,000 in stolen funds.
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The St. Louis metropolitan area is welcoming home four new state championship teams from last weekend’s state track and field meets in Missouri and Illinois.
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