Why is it that Natural Bridge Avenue – a main thoroughfare on the North Side of St. Louis, a street teaming with many places of business – is such an eyesore? There are vacant lots filled with trash, an empty filling station property prone to vagrants the homeless and debris, a vacant old Na…

The killings must stop! There is nothing on this earth that is as brutal as watching children dying. The death of young children – for children to never see the rise of the morning sun, the love in their parents’ eyes, playtime with siblings and friends or growing up – is especially heartbreaking.

St. Louis was once a beautiful thriving metropolis. with some of the most beautiful trees you would ever want to see. I have always loved trees. They are one of the many  gifts that God has bestowed on us.

North St. Louis is a living testament of a city in decay. There have been five people shot in the 4000 block of Shreve and Kossuth in one night with four now dead. There was another death in the 4800 block of Kossuth and another man shot in the leg on Shreve and Anderson – all within less th…

When I look at the immigrant child – a beautiful, young, seven-year-old girl – my heart breaks. They showed her picture over and over again on the news, and I looked at that little girl and thought of my biracial granddaughter of the same age.

As a black person it seems often in this world of today that we matter less, not more, and I wonder how do we really make a difference and what is that difference all about.

St. Louis city is in trouble, and the people who live in the city are in dire need of rescue. Mayor Lyda Krewson and St. Louis County Executive Steve Stenger want to make changes to our city that a lot of black people know nothing about.

I believe there are quite a few white people as well as people of color who have had enough of president Trump's racism. No president in my experience has ever been so blatant in his efforts to discredit people of color.

What a world we live in when you come to church to worship God on Sunday and are robbed getting out of your car. The pastor of your church is held captive in the church garage for fear of the robbers who are waiting outside, and the same pastor of your church holds a man in his arms and give…

Wake up, my white fellow Americans. Why are you all acting like deer who  got caught in the headlights of a car?

If there is one thing that black folks need to do on Tuesday, November 6, it is to go to the polls and vote. Never mind all the issues that are going on around us; all we need to do is access the issues that we are confronted with in our day-to-day living.

Post-Dispatch columnist Bill McClellan responded to the dine-and-dash incident at the IHOP in Clayton by asking, “What were the cops supposed to do?” McClellan talked about a stabbing in the mall and a friend of his who wouldn't stay in this nice hotel with  good food and a nice gym, all bec…

When I watch President Trump talk to reporters, it gives me pause to think how rude a man he is as I watch him cut the reporters off and tell them to be quiet. How respectful are you supposed to be to anyone who treats you in such a way?

I have lived in St. Louis city my entire life and have enjoyed living in this city. Although life has allowed me to travel to many beautiful places, I have always felt that St. Louis was my home.

We have Me Too, women's marches, and different organizations all defending women's rights.

President Trump will not win. His few accomplishments are grounded in deceit and compromise. His debt to God, family and society is a war within his soul, the soul of a man who has lost his way and will forfeit nothing to regain it.