Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King (January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968)

Members of the U.S. House of Representatives voted Wednesday to impeach President Donald Trump on one count of "incitement of insurrection” after Vice President Mike Pence refused to activate the 25th Amendment to remove the president from power.

Senator Hawley: 

Democratic members of the U.S. House of Representatives introduced articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump Monday morning after Republicans blocked a request for unanimous consent to take up legislation calling for Vice President Mike Pence to activate the 25th Amendment to re…

Resist STL held a protest for Senator Josh Hawley to resign on Saturday, Jan. 9, 2021.

Rep. Rasheen Aldridge, D-St. Louis, criticized an effort by Missouri House Republicans to try to undermine the American electoral system in December.

Several hundred protesters closed a block of South Broadway in downtown St. Louis Saturday afternoon in front of the Old Courthouse, demanding U.S. Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., resign after he supported Trump-incited protests Wednesday in the U.S. Capitol. 

The Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi are calling on Vice President Mike Pence, in conjunction with President Donald Trump’s cabinet, to remove Trump from office by invoking the 25th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

Vice President-elect Senator Kamala Harris received her first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine today (Tuesday, Dec. 29) at UMC United Medical Center in Washington, D.C. She and her husband Doug Emhoff received the Moderna vaccine from nurse Patricia Cummings.

BALTIMORE, MD Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. General President Dr. Everett B. Ward is urging the U.S. Senate to pass the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act of 2020 (H.R. 7120) after the officer-involved shooting deaths in Columbus, Ohio, of Casey Goodson, Jr., and Andre Maurice Hill. "Th…

After the passage in May of a $3 trillion COVID-19 relief and financial stimulus package by the U.S. House of Representatives, a Senate proposal in July foundered, and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Kentucky, refused to return to the table before the presidential election.  Last w…

Report for America has announced the selection of The St. Louis American and a total of 64 local news organization as host newsroom partners, enabling the national service program to place more than 300 journalists in the field in 2021. 

Congresswoman-elect Cori Bush may have just been elected to the House and appointed to the House Committee on the Judiciary, but don’t be fooled: she’s not taking her activist hat off any time soon.

Sandra Lindsay, left, a nurse at Long Island Jewish Medical Center, is inoculated with the COVID-19 vaccine by Dr. Michelle Chester, Monday, Dec. 14, 2020 in the Queens borough of New York. The rollout of the Pfizer and BioNTech vaccine, the first to be approved by the Food and Drug Administ…

On Sunday morning, the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine left Pfizer’s Kalamazoo, Michigan site, on its way to distribution throughout in the U.S., after the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Dr. Robert Redfield, approved use in the U.S.

Charley Pride has died at the age of 86 from COVID-19. Pride was the first major Black country music singer to be inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2000.  

With the U.K. starting the Pfizer-BioNTech version of coronavirus vaccines, Canada approving their use this week, the U.S. is expected to grant Emergency Use Authorization to Pfizer this week on its COVID-19 vaccine, and Moderna next week. 

Missouri First District Congresswoman-elect Cori Bush, a registered nurse, worked with the Biden-Harris Transition team to ensure that nurses have a leading voice in the new administration's COVID-19 response. The Biden-Harris team announced on Saturday. November 28, 2020, the appointment of…

Wilton Gregory has received his red hat and ring from Pope Francis, becoming the first Black American cardinal in the history of Catholicism.

Monday afternoon was supposed to be a joyous occasion in Selma, as a ceremony was planned to rename the Dallas County Courthouse Annex in honor of civil rights heroes Bruce Carver Boynton and J.L. Chestnut.

David N. Dinkins, New York City’s first African American mayor, often referred to the people in his hometown as the “gorgeous mosaic,” his wife as his “beautiful bride,” and men he only vaguely remembered as “buddy.” He governed with the same easy-going, graceful manner, a kind of laid-back …

St. Louis Mayor Lyda Krewson announced Wednesday she will not run for re-election next year. 

He looks forward to serving all of America’s children

Harris-Stowe State University’s College of Education will launch its official Accelerated Certification Teaching Program in 2021 with the application date extended to Friday, December 18, 2020.

Missouri's First Congressional District Congresswoman-Elect Cori Bush, who donned a black mask with Breonna Taylor's name on it, was mistakenly called, "Breonna Taylor" by several of her Congressional cohorts, Friday, November 13, 2020.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito warned against threats to religious liberty and freedom of speech imposed because of the coronavirus that have resulted in “previously unimaginable” restrictions on Americans.

Again, a majority conservative Supreme Court seems poised to vote against a case which would upend the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) based on two justices’ arguments on Tuesday. 

JEFFERSON CITY – State Sen. Brian Williams, D-University City, was chosen by his fellow colleagues in the Senate’s Minority Caucus to serve as the assistant minority floor leader for the 101th General Assembly. 

Valerie Patton, "Greater St. Louis, Inc. is ‘great opportunity’ for Black community"

Washington D.C. Archbishop Wilton Gregory would become the first Black U.S. prelate to earn the coveted red hat.   VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis on Sunday named 13 new cardinals, including Washington D.C. Archbishop Wilton Gregory, who would become the first Black U.S. prelate to earn the cove…

Church of God In Christ (COGIC) leader Bishop Charles Edward Blake, Sr. announced that he would not seek another term as Presiding Bishop and Chief Apostle at the next election in a video released to the members of the denomination.

Ten of the nation's most progressive Black publishers in the nation have come together to launch a news collaborative unlike any in the industry. The group, called Word in Black, is focused on solutions "by us and for us"when it comes to racial inequities in America.On October 20th, the 10 p…

The NAACP submitted a letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee strongly opposing the nomination of Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court. Coming in the middle of a presidential election in which over seven million people have already voted, the Barrett nomination is as illegitimate as it is…