One-hundred local progressive leaders came together Tuesday to endorse St. Louis Treasurer Tishaura Jones in her bid to become the city’s next mayor, joining a long list of local and out-of-state support Jones has received since she announced her campaign Nov. 4.

President Joe Biden and Dr. Jill Biden stood with Vice President Kamala Harris and first gentleman Doug Emhoff, as they bowed their heads on the South portico of the White House while a Marine band played “Amazing Grace” in a ceremony on Monday, Feb. 22, 2021, honoring over 500,000 lives los…

U.S. Rep. Cori Bush, D-Missouri, on Feb. 4 announced her subcommittee assignments for the legislative session. 

2021 St. Louis mayoral candidates respond

Ahead of the St. Louis Primary Election on March 2, The St. Louis American is asking a series of questions of the candidates for mayor of the city of St. Louis.  Following are their responses to this week’s question:

After a grueling overnight session, Vice President Kamala Harris before dawn Friday cast her first tie-breaking vote as president of the U.S. Senate.

Ahead of the St. Louis Primary Election on March 2, The St. Louis American is asking a series of questions of the candidates for mayor of the city of St. Louis.  Following are their responses to this week’s question:

U.S. Rep. Cori Bush, D-Missouri, is moving her congressional office after she said she and her staff were berated in the hallway by U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Georgia. 

U.S. Rep. Cori Bush, D-Missouri, and U.S. Sen. Edward Markey, D-Massachusetts, Thursday introduced legislation that would develop a nationally-coordinated, interactive mapping tool of environmental violence.

From the Jan. 18 observance of Martin Luther King Day through the Jan. 20 inauguration of President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, our country remains woefully divided.

The city of St. Louis is losing nearly seven small to mid-size manufacturing companies a year. When they go, their buildings are either left vacant or replaced with trendy coffee shops and loft apartments.  

The People's Plan is a comprehensive policy agenda designed to help us build power and redistribute resources in St. Louis city. 

Ahead of the St. Louis Primary Election on March 2, The St. Louis American is asking a series of questions of the candidates for mayor of the city of St. Louis. Following are their responses.

U.S. Rep. Cori Bush, D-Missouri, said Friday she is continuing to fight to ensure Black voices are heard by co-sponsoring one of the first acts of the 117th Congressional session: H.R. 1, For the People Act.

U.S. Rep. Cori Bush, D-Missouri, and Rep. Ayanna Pressley, D-Massachusetts, led 35 of their fellow House Democrats in sending a letter Friday to President Joe Biden to commute all 49 people sentenced to death. 

Freshly inaugurated U.S. President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala D. Harris made a point of going right to work shortly after their inauguration ceremonies Wednesday, underscoring the fact that, unlike the Trump administration that preceded them, their priorities lay with the people.

Joe Biden was sworn in Wednesday as the 46th president of the United States, while Kamala Harris became the first woman, first Black person and first South Asian person to take the oath of office as vice president.

On Wednesday, Jan. 20, Amanda Gorman, the 22 year-old African American poet from Los Angeles, read the poem "The Hill We Climb" at the Inaugural ceremonies, in Washington, D.C.  Gorman, who is the first National Youth Poet Laureate in this country, asserted in her poem that America must "Reb…

Joe Biden with his wife Dr. Jill Biden at his side as he is sworn in as the 46th U.S. president by Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts.

Kamala Harris is sworn is as U.S. vice president by Justice Sonia Sotomayor

Donald Trump leaves the White House for the last time as president, with his wife, Melania Trump, on Inauguration Day, January 20, 2021, 8:13 a.m.

The US Capitol on Inauguration day, Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2021, 7:30am

Tuesday night, on the eve of the inauguration, President-elect Joe Biden, Dr. Jill Biden, Vice president-elect Kamala Harris and husband Doug Emhoff, held a vigil to honor and mourn more than 400,000 lives lost to coronavirus in the U.S. The ceremony took place along the Lincoln Memorial Sac…

National Guard members line up in front of the U.S. Capitol as they prepare for the inauguration.

Protesters Friday afternoon shut down the McDonald’s drive-thru on North Tucker Boulevard, calling for a $15-an-hour wage, as well as racial and economic justice.  

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…

With the news that Mayor Lyda Krewson will not seek a second term, all eyes are on who will be running to replace her in an election that will look totally different from those in the past after the passage of Proposition D on Nov. 3. 

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…