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Parks open, playgrounds closed Shawn Baker Jr., 5, rode his motorized bike with his sister Lydia, 8, on a scooter in Terry Park across the street from their home in The Gate neighborhood on May 15. Both are students at Central Christian School. City parks are open, but playgrounds remained closed as a social-distancing precaution to slow the spread of COVID-19.
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Protesters march through the streets of downtown St. Louis to protest police brutality after the video of George Floyd being held down by a Minneapolis Police officer with his knee on his neck died from the incident.
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“Beyond the grave, we will never forget,” Father Joseph Brown, professor of Africana Studies at Southern Illinois University Carbondale, said. “We turn to one another across vast differences. We hear one another in the silence.”
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Christopher Gray did some work in his front yard in the 3900 block of Natural Bridge Avenue across from Fairgrounds Park on March 27. Gray has lived in this house in the 63107 ZIP code for almost 20 years. As of May 28, the 63107 ZIP code in North St. Louis had 72 COVID-19 cases. The 63109 ZIP code in South St. Louis had the same number of COVID-19 cases but has more than 17,000 more residents, so the COVID-19 case count in Gray’s neighborhood was nearly three times the COVID-19 case count in South City neighborhoods less than 10 miles away.
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Solomon Thurman Jr. and Patricia Smith Thurman outside their 10th Street Gallery in 2013. The gallery was hit by the unrest that got underway downtown on Monday, June 1 in response to police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis.
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Protestors taunt police in Ferguson during a demonstration against the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis.
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Ella Jones observed public-health precautions while watching election returns during the COVID-19 pandemic on Tuesday, June 2 at the Urban League’s community center in Ferguson. She made history when she became the first African American and first woman elected as mayor of Ferguson.
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Bishop Elijah Hankerson, president of the St. Louis Metropolitan Clergy Coalition, spoke with Myron Gray of God In Action and Reverend Darryl Gray, a member of the Clergy Coalition, at Lively Stone Church of God on May 26. The coalition distributed protective masks and this guidance from District Elder Ron Stephens to churches planning to reopen.
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Dr. Starsky D. Wilson led a prayer during a St. Louis Metropolitan Clergy Coalition press conference at the Deaconess Center for Child Well-Being on April 28.
Photo by Wiley Price
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Former Moline Acres Police Chief David Dorn