According to a recent report from the St. Louis County Department of Public Health, although heart disease and cancer remained the top two leading causes of death, COVID-19 was the third leading cause of death in 2020.
St. Louis-based Arch Grants next month will celebrate the 35 startups and early-stage businesses, including 19 from Missouri, that make up the 2021 cohort in the St. Louis-based Arch Grants program. Collectively the companies are in line to receive nearly $2 million in grants.
Direct care providers for Medicaid patients have been underpaid for years and are currently struggling with exacerbated staffing problems. The expansion could alleviate the staffing issues.
One Missouri representative is speaking out against the state’s scholarship system, alleging it is inequitable and does not adequately serve the students who need the financial help the most.
STEAM Academy at McCluer South-Berkeley has been recognized as a 2020-2021 Project Lead the Way (PLTW) Distinguished High School. It is one of 204 American high schools to receive this recognition, just 1.7% of all schools.
The city’s new corrections commissioner, Jennifer Clemons-Abdullah, has been on the job now for just over a month. As she works to understand the issues facing the city’s jails, she told The St. Louis American she doesn’t have just one priority.
As the search for the next police chief gets underway, St. Louis Mayor Tishaura Jones is inviting the public to submit input on what they’re looking for in the city’s top cop.
East St. Louis School District 189 was in a state of chaos in 2011 when Arthur R. Culver was appointed superintendent. The district, with about 7,300 students at the time, had failed to meet state standards for nine years under the “No Child Left Behind Act.” Only 60 percent of its students …
Breast cancer is the second leading cause of cancer death for American women according to the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI).
Washington University is as of October 2021 adopting a need-blind admissions policy. The university, which as of a 2017 report had the greatest percentage of students from the top 1% of any school in the country, has come a long way over the past five years: but until this year, they have no…
Brian H. Hurd, director of community planning and implementation for Rise Community Development, Inc., in St. Louis, is a recipient of the 2021 Design Achievement Award presented by the Iowa State University College of Design. The award recognizes outstanding creative and professional achiev…
Forsyth School welcomed Robert Butler, Jr., as new head of school on July 1, 2021. Butler returned to St. Louis and joined Forsyth with more than 20 years of experience as a teacher, coach, and administrator. He comes to Forsyth from University Liggett School (Grosse Pointe Woods, Michigan),…
The St. Louis Chapter of the Coalition of Black Trade Unionists (CBTU) will honor St. Louis American Publisher Dr. Donald M. Suggs with its Ernest and De Verne Calloway Award on Saturday, Oct. 16, 2021, at the Marriott Grand Hotel, 800 Washington Avenue.
Rep. Cori Bush, D-Missouri, held her monthly telephone town hall Thursday evening, where she focused her remarks on housing justice.
Missouri Gov. Mike Parsons signed legislation to help parents of medically fragile children provide in-home healthcare in June. However, Medicaid will not cover a program that could help them and their families with life-saving care.
When SLUH adopted its Minority Action Plan nearly 30 years ago, approximately 2.7% of students identified themselves as African American, with even fewer identifying as Hispanic, Asian, or other. Today, African Americans represent 7% of the SLUH student body, Asian Americans 4%, and Hispanic…
The Deaconess Foundation is accepting proposals for up to $600,000 in community investment funding through its mission-related investments initiative.
Gwendolyn Diggs has spent the past 26 years following her calling to work on education, educating children of all ages throughout those 26 years. She has worked in administration in Jennings School District, Ferguson-Florissant School District, and the National Institute for School Leadershi…
UMSL’s Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Accelerator — which provides business development training and $50,000 grants to local entrepreneurs from marginalized groups — last week announced it would be accepting applications for its second cohort now through Oct. 29.
Starting this week, four libraries in the St. Louis area will be providing a new service: face-to-face meetings with members of U.S. Rep. Cori Bush’s staff. Patrons entering the libraries now walk past a table with a sign that reads “Congress in your neighborhood!” staffed by a member of Bus…
