• Shelby Holman 11, Alex Williams 6, and Kaleb Wliliams 9 spiritual dancers with the New Shining Light Anointed Hands Mime Ministry perfumed at the Most Powerful Voices Gospel Concert and Health Fair concert at Abundant Life Fellowship Church Friday night. Gospel singer Yolanda Adams headlined the free concert designed to educate the African-American community about the risk factors associated with stroke. 

  • CoCo Young towels off Storm, her two month old Chihuahua puppy after it was freed from a sewer pipe by St. Louis firefighters in St. Louis on Tuesday. The puppy fell into the pipe and was trapped for nearly four hours until firefighters used water flowing in the drain to force it into a noose. The puppy was cold but otherwise in good health. 

  • Carman Weber is consoled by a supporter on April 9 before a candlelight vigil she organized for her son, Antonio Duff, who was murdered April 9, 2012. His murder remains unsolved.

  • St. Louis County Executive Charlie Dooley joins State Representative-elect Clem Smith, State Representative-elect Rory Ellinger, and Democratic Committeeman James Cotter at a party for Dooley at Ellinger’s home in University City Sunday that attracted 70 area residents. 

  • Sigma brothers Brandon Henry and Brandon Harvey watched as Phi Beta Sigma, Inc. International President Jonathan Mason pinned the fraternity’s pin on the wax likeness of Dr. George Washington Carver installed at the Griot Museum, 2505 St. Louis Ave., on Saturday morning.

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  • Doctors at Washington University and St. Louis Children’s Hospital are part of a nationwide study to find out how to help black patients maintain better control with low-dose medication – and for good reason: asthma has a significant impact on the health of African Americans in this region.

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  • Students at the newly rennovated Civil Rights Museum
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  • Lois Conley, founder and executive director of the Griot Museum, collaborated with the local chapter of Phi Beta Sigma, Inc. to pin a Sigma pin on the wax likeness she crafted of Dr. George Washington Carver, who was a charter member of Gamma Sigma Alumni chapter at Tuskegee University, organized in 1918.

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  • Rep. Rory Ellinger

  • The Dorial Green-Beckham era at the University of Missouri – Columbia is now over and he has no one to thank but himself. Considered to be the most-prized recruit to set foot on campus in years, Green-Beckham was kicked off the team for a variety of reasons.

  • “Quincredible,” which chronicles an African-American superhero of that name, is one of the diverse publications by Lion Forge Comics, the St. Louis-based digital publisher founded by David Steward II.

  • “Quincredible,” which chronicles an African-American superhero of that name, is one of the diverse publications by Lion Forge Comics, the St. Louis-based digital publisher founded by David Steward II.

     

  • Singer Solange Knowles is one of many celebrities who have gone natural.

  • The Grace Chapel Chargers from Grace Chapel Lutheran School in Bellefontaine Neighbors finished 5th place in the Lutheran Basketball Association of America’s National Tournament of Champions, held March 28-30 at Valparaiso University in Indiana. Darius Dorsey, an eighth-grader at the school, was named the Most Valuable Player, averaging 23.2 points per game. In addition to their 5th place finish at the nationals and a 24-4 record, the Chargers achieved the titles of St. Louis Lutheran Athletic League Small School Champion and Lutheran Sports Association of Missouri Runner-up. The team was coached by the Rev. John Green and Mr. Keith Ware.

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  • Tiara Abu will be the founding leader of the KIPP Victory Academy that will open in the former Mitchell School at 655 Arcade North St. Louis this fall.

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  • Johanna Wharton, executive vice president of Grace Hill Settlement House, and Carla Reid, owner of Elevated Men’s Salon, LLC.

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  • Bradley Beal
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  • Dr. George Washington Carver (seated) at Phi Beta Sigma, Inc.’s 1940 Conclave with fellow members of its Distinguished Service Key Chapter.

  • Jordan Womack, 6, is embraced by his mother Shirley Womack during a Peace Summit at Sumner High School last Friday. The program was held to remember Sumner students who have died recently. Womack’s son, Beion, was a sophomore at the school and was fatally shot in November of 2012. Photo by Wiley Price / St. Louis American

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  • David Steward II, founder and CEO of Lion Forge Comics
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  • St. Louis native Antonio Douthit-Boyd will perform with the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater when Dance St. Louis brings the company to The Fox on April 25-26.

  • St. Louis native Antonio Douthit-Boyd will perform with the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater when Dance St. Louis brings the company to The Fox on April 25-26.

  • St. Louis native Antonio Douthit-Boyd will perform with the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater when Dance St. Louis brings the company to The Fox on April 25-26.

  • Kevin Durant and Blake Griffin will play major roles in determining if their teams can upend the San Antonio spurs in the extremely competitive Western Conference playoffs.

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  • Jasmine Berry
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  • Jessie J. Knight Jr
  • Jim Shelton
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  • The St. Louis chapter of Phi Beta Sigma, Inc. celebrated the fraternity’s 100th anniversary recently in a Centennial Gala held at the Sheldon. Front row from left to right: Shirl E. Gilbert, Chapter President Robert T. Jordan Jr., Flint Fowler, U.S. District Judge Brian Wimes, International President Rev. Jonathan Mason, Conrad Jordan, Joseph Dubose Jr., Bishop Courtney Jones and Jerryl T. Christmas.

  • Cahokia High standout Ja’Mari Ward, a sophomore, swept both the long jump and triple jump to lead the Comanches to the team championship at the Norm Armstrong/Belleville West Invitational.

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  • Two cars almost hit each other Tuesday afternoon in the 5900 block of Martin Luther King Dr. in the Hamilton Heights neighborhood. One of the vehicles crashed into a building. No one was seriously injured.  

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  • Talib Kweli
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  • Bruce Bruce
  • Tony Rock
  • Gary Owen

  • Photo by Wiley Price

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