Ricky Kidd, 44, walked out of a Missouri prison on Thursday, August 15, after serving 23 years for a 1996 robbery and double murder that a judge recently ruled that he didn’t commit.

Lamar Johnson’s 1994 murder conviction was allegedly steeped in corruption from both police and prosecutors, and new evidence proves that the African-American man is innocent, said St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kimberly Gardner in a July 19 court motion to get Johnson a new trial.

St. Louis Democratic Committeeman Rasheen Aldridge will likely succeed Bruce Franks in the Missouri House next year.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is hosting a Next NGA West construction training fair from 4-7 p.m. Tuesday, August 27, at St. Stanislaus Heritage Center, 1413 N. 20th St. in St. Louis. Registration is not required.

The Harris Stowe State University Board of Regents has granted lifetime tenure and advancement in academic rank to Charlene Lofton Jones. Jones formerly was assistant professor of Political Science at the university. She also has taught at Saint Louis University, Lindenwood University, St. L…

(St. Louis Public Radio) - St. Louis police say they are frustrated and angry they are getting so little help in solving the murders of children.

Dr. Richard B. “Rick” White and Anita R. White will co-chair United Way’s Charmaine Chapman Leadership Society once again in 2019, which is the 25th anniversary for one of the nation’s top philanthropic programs for African Americans. The society is comprised of African Americans who pledge …

“I said I wasn’t gonna cry today,” Lezley McSpadden-Head said after placing a wreath on her son Michael Brown’s grave at St. Peter’s Cemetery Friday afternoon to commemorate the fifth anniversary of his passing.

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On the fifth anniversary of his son’s death, Michael Brown Sr. started the day with a call to action. As the nation and world watched to see how Ferguson would be commemorated by those who lived it, Brown held a press conference and requested that the case involving his son's death be reopened.

When U.S. District Judge Catherine D. Perry sentenced Steve Stenger to 46 months in federal prison, at the highest end of the sentencing guidelines, she dismissed claims made by his attorney Scott Rosenblum, that Stenger’s remorse should be a mitigating factor.

Registration artists for Open Studios STL 2019 is open until Sunday, August 18 at 11:59 p.m. The Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis (CAM) partners with artists, galleries, alternative spaces, arts organizations, and universities in St. Louis city and county to make their studios accessible to…

U.S. District Judge Nanette K. Laughrey has ordered the Missouri Parole Board to start handling juvenile cases according to the U.S. and Missouri constitutions after ruling that the board’s current practice violates the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution, as w…

Committeeman Marty Murray (D-7th Ward) and his team will be back at 12th and Park Recreation Center from noon to 4 p.m. Saturday, August 10 to give away more school supplies after they ran out of supplies during three successful events last weekend.

The Center for Social Empowerment, The Vine, and Walker Leadership Institute join forces to host community events on August 8 and 9 and join with Civic Saturday on August 10 to gather the region together and strengthen a call to civic engagement as the community remembers the 5th anniversary…

The St. Louis American sat down with Michael Brown Sr. last week at the Urban League’s Ferguson Empowerment Center at 9420 W. Florissant Ave, where he and his family will host the “As I See You: A Tribute to Mike Brown Jr.” from August 9-11.

“I don’t think that this happened to me by chance,” Lezley McSpadden-Head said as she talked about the unimaginable and tragic circumstances that became her reality on August 9, 2014.

Combatting a predicted major undercounting of people of color in the 2020 U.S. Census was the focus of a national roundtable discussion, featuring key representatives of civil rights and voting rights organizations in June.

(St. Louis Public Radio) - Two Democrats captured vacant St. Louis County Council seats Tuesday, giving the party control of the governing body that was shaken up by Steve Stenger’s resignation as county executive.

Two vacant St. Louis County Council seats are on the ballot for a special election on Tuesday, August 6.

St. Louis County Executive Sam Page and Councilwoman Lisa Clancy will host a Town Hall and Open Forum for District 5 constituents on Thursday, Aug. 8 in Richmond Heights. The public is invited to join in discussions regarding new technology for St. Louis County, a reflection on recently pass…

(St. Louis Public Radio) - A year after the Ferguson unrest, Washington University’s then-Chancellor Mark Wrighton convened a commission to explore what the university could do following the movement. The commission tossed around various ideas, but the primary suggestion was to open a univer…

(Philadelphia Tribune) - The members of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc. elected Reuben Shelton III to be the fraternity’s 34th Grand Polemarch during the fraternity’s 84th Grand Chapter Meeting and Conclave here this week.

(St. Louis Public Radio) - Federal prosecutors say former St. Louis County Executive Steve Stenger should get the maximum prison term allowed — nearly four years — for a pay-to-play scheme that began even before he took office in 2015.

(St. Louis Public Radio) - Students in St. Louis are heading back to school in August, and for many, that could mean free school supplies.

Beyond Housing/24:1 will holds its Beyond the Backpack community back-to-school event on Saturday, August 10 at Normandy High School, 6701 St. Charles Rock Rd.

Dr. Dwyane Smith has been selected to serve as acting president of Harris-Stowe State University. Smith assumes the role with the departure of the school’s most recent president Dr. Dwaun Warmack, who left Harris-Stowe to lead Claflin University in South Carolina.

Staff diversity is vitally essential in cultivating new audiences and developing innovative strategies to grow and maintain relevant and community relationships.  The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation’s Art Museum Staff Demographic Survey released in 2015 and repeated in 2018 concluded that people…

In remembering the Ferguson unrest five years later, St. Louis and the rest of the nation and world should reflect on what it was and could be like in Ferguson during the daylight in the first few months of the protests. 

The Monsanto Family YMCA, the St. Louis Treasurer’s Office of Financial Empowerment, College Kids, and Operation HOPE will host a Back-to-School Jam 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday, August 3 at the Monsanto Family YMCA, 5555 Page Blvd.

Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner’s prosecutors have asked a circuit court judge to set aside the 1994 murder conviction of an African-American man, in a case in which Gardner’s team alleges that former prosecutors and police fabricated evidence to get the conviction of an innocent man.

(St. Louis Public Radio) - Planned Parenthood and the American Civil Liberties Union are asking a federal judge to overturn a Missouri law banning most abortions at eight weeks of pregnancy. 

(St. Louis Public Radio) - Cheryl Watkins-Moore has a vision.

As we move towards a more automated workforce, technology is slowly becoming embedded in our children’s lives and education. Digital tools and coding curricula are the norm in many American classrooms, transforming our workforce into creators and builders who will shape the technical solutio…

The Old Town Farmers Market draws people seeking fresh, local produce to Belleville’s downtown every Saturday morning. Food stands line a block of South Charles Street offering fresh meats, eggs, vegetables and fruits, and a steady stream of patrons checks out the options six months of the year.

St. Louis County Executive Sam Page announced today that Cora Faith Walker will join his administration as Director of Policy.

St. Louis County Library started offering binoculars for check-out on Monday, July 22. The program is a partnership with the St. Louis Astronomical Society. Adults with a valid library card will be able to check-out a pair of binoculars for a 14-day period at any library branch. The binocula…

A settlement was reached in a lawsuit filed by the state on behalf of residents of Clinton-Peabody public housing against the St. Louis Housing Authority and property manager McCormack Baron Salazar, regarding violations of the Missouri Merchandising Protection Act and public nuisance claims.

Fathers United to Raise Awareness will present A Salute to the Black Family 10 a.m. – 2 p.m. Saturday, July 27 at Union Memorial United Methodist Church Campus, 5436 Bartmer Ave. in St. Louis. The event will feature community forums, resources, children’s activities and enrichment programs, …

St. Louis County Executive Sam Page refused to sign off on the Trump Administration’s plan to demolish about 200 public housing structures in Wellston, which would have displaced about 530 people or 174 families — about one-fourth of Wellston’s residents.

Nine teens from the St. Louis area have won full scholarships from the local Quest scholarship project to spend the summer in countries around the world. The students come from high schools across the metropolitan area. They have chosen Italy, Ghana, Costa Rica, Japan and Argentina as their …

Saint Louis Public Schools and New Heights Community Resource Center in Florissant were two of 81 institutions recognized by the USDA Food and Nutrition Service with a Gold or Silver award for providing healthy and appetizing summer meals in its Turnip the Beet awards.