On Dr. Martin Luther King Day, January 20, the Urban League of Metropolitan St. Louis held a ribbon-cutting ceremony for its new Community Resource Center in the Martin Luther King Shopping Plaza on Page Boulevard. The MLK Center, which was given to the Urban League for use rent-free by Bace…

The bone chilling cold didn’t stop area residents from coming out to honor the life and legacy of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. On the federal holiday observed in his honor. About 150 or so people gathered in the Old Courthouse to hear remarks by local political figures ahead of the annual…

Some criminal defendants in St. Louis County who cannot afford an attorney may face more delays in getting one.

For more than a year, Wellston residents locked arms to fight against the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s decision in August 2018 to demolish 200 of the city’s public housing units.

(St. Louis Public Radio) - Before being released from prison, Melvin Hill Jr. was doing everything in his power to secure a sustainable job that would allow him to fulfill his lifelong goals. 

Gynecologic oncologist Dineo Khabele, MD, noted for her expertise in ovarian cancer research and treatment, has been named head of the Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. Khabele, whose appointment becomes effective June 1, also…

This is an MLK weekend more than 11,000 families in St. Louis City and County won't soon forget as the United Church of Christ blessed them with a cure for their medical debt. It took $100,000 -- UCC church bodies donated $60,000, along with a $40,000 donation from Deaconess Foundation to bu…

The Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) and the Missouri Community Forestry Council (MCFC) are accepting nominations for the 2020 Missouri Arbor Award of Excellence. The annual award recognizes communities, institutions, businesses, organizations and individuals that make significant a…

All City of St. Louis civil service employees will be guaranteed a $15 per hour minimum wage, effective mid-February, as per Executive Order #65, which was signed by Mayor Lyda Krewson on Friday, January 17.

(St. Louis Public Radio) - As a child, Nichole McHenry envisioned herself broadcasting the news, just like famed St. Louis anchor Robin Smith.

On January 25, the Organization for Black Struggle will celebrate its 40th anniversary. The group, which rose to national prominence during the Ferguson uprising, was founded in 1980 by a group of students, veteran activists, and union organizers, among others, who believed that the needs of…

When State’s Attorney of Baltimore Marilyn Mosby came into office in 2015, she immediately tried to use her power to address wrongful convictions and implement other criminal justice reforms.

On Tuesday, January 14, the organizers of the Close the Workhouse campaign held a press conference showcasing their new report “Close the Workhouse: A Plan and a Vision.” This report showcases the dramatic drop in St. Louis city jail populations over the past year and proposes a two-year pat…

Updated at 1/14/19 at 10:58 a.m. to add response from City spokesman.

New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker became the third Democratic presidential hopeful in as many weeks to drop out of the race Monday, announcing he was suspending his campaign.

(St. Louis Public Radio) - Rep. Raychel Proudie, of Ferguson, will be the only Democrat in the Missouri House of Representatives to head up a committee in the 2020 session.

The newly opened St. Louis Aquarium at Union Station is getting all of the attention these days, but St. Louis has had beautiful aquariums for many decades at the Saint Louis Zoo – which recently was granted accreditation by the Association of Zoos & Aquariums (AZA).

Two of the largest library systems in the St. Louis region are axing fines for overdue library materials.

The weekend before Christmas, 20-year-old Gabriel Lockett sat in the back of a long tow-truck bed — in front of six life-sized, lit-up reindeers. His mentor, Darren Seals, dressed up as Santa and sat in a sleigh, ringing a bell. 

January 7 marked the sesquicentennial of the Missouri General Assembly ratifying the 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution that extended voting rights to male African Americans and former slaves. It declared that voting rights “shall not be denied or abridged by the United States, or by an…

This is the first in a series where we ask local leaders what we need to do differently to address the crisis in homicides in St. Louis.

The St. Louis Area Foodbank, with support from the Bayer Fund, is addressing hunger by providing school food markets at no cost for students and their families in selected school districts in the greater St. Louis area.

(St. Louis Public Radio) - Freddie Lee James Jr. has long been a sauce man. 

“As you know, we have traditionally invited the nation’s leading scholars to reflect on Dr. King’s social justice legacy in contemporary times,” Dr. Will Ross of Washington University School of Medicine said of the school’s annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Lecture. “This year our ‘leading s…

State Sen. Jill Schupp, D-Creve Coeur, who has announced her candidacy to unseat U.S. Rep. Ann Wagner (R-Missouri), has filed Senate Bill 799 to make it illegal to buy a firearm in Missouri without passing a background check conducted by a licensed firearms dealer.

1. Documents and photos suggest foul play in death of Private Johnson

Letters of interest must be submitted by February 4 for research proposals about gun violence in Missouri. Missouri Foundation for Health is partnering with the National Collaborative on Gun Violence Research (NCGVR) to commission work specific to Missouri.

Some criminal defendants in St. Louis County who cannot afford an attorney may face more delays in getting one.

Perhaps no one living has a closer to connection to Homer G. Phillips Hospital, St. Louis’ historic black teaching hospital that was closed in 1979, than Earle U. Robinson Jr., MD. His namesake father reported to the hospital in 1937 as part of its first group of interns, and Robinson follow…

Often when Dedrick Asante-Muhammad gives a talk about race and economics, it’s to audiences who might not have a base level of understanding. That was not his audience at the region’s first St. Louis Racial Equity Summit, he said, so he decided to be more clear with his language.

Civil Rights leader and longtime member of the U.S. House of Representatives Rep. John Lewis revealed that he will undergo treatment for Stage IV Cancer.

The Lincoln University Social Work program has received reaffirmed accreditation through 2026 from the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE).  The program has been accredited by the CSWE since 2011. 

The Biome School, a small, independent public charter school in St. Louis, has to rely on donations for a quarter of its funding to educate 178 students. 

Sixth grader Andre Turner leaned up against a wall-size mural of the new reading center at Confluence Academy-Old North.

The Missouri Court of Appeals for the Eastern District delivered a gift on Christmas Eve to both the Missouri Supreme Court and the Missouri Legislature in its unanimous decision on Lamar Johnson’s appeal.

Various people are speculating that Mayor Lyda Krewson – despite her announced reason of lack of support in the community – decided to pull the plug on the airport privatization deal on December 20 because she knew the city was going to lose the pending lawsuit on the lack of transparency, s…

At the outset of the fall semester that is now concluding, the School of Law at Washington University in St. Louis launched a new First Amendment Clinic aimed at allowing students to gain experience by providing legal assistance to organizations, students, journalists and citizens.

When U.S. Rep. Wm. Lacy Clay (D-Missouri) was driving to work on Capitol Hill on December 18, he called his father at home in Silver Springs, Maryland.

On the day that Donald Trump was getting impeached by the U.S. House of Representatives for abuse of power and obstructing Congress, the federal Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans handed the president a partial victory in his ongoing attack on Obamacare.

(St. Louis Public Radio) - A nearly two-year process to consider leasing St. Louis Lambert International Airport to a private operator is coming to a screeching halt. 

State Rep. LaKeySha Bosley (D-St. Louis) is not coming for anyone’s guns, but she does want ammunition sales to be better regulated in Missouri.

Registered nurses at SSM Health Saint Louis University Hospital overwhelmingly ratified a new three-and-a-half-year contract on December 13.

More than 1,000 workers could be employed daily in 2022 during peak construction of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency’s new $1.75 billion facility project, which broke ground on November 26.

Social workers have long served traumatized students, sick patients, struggling veterans and troubled families.