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Pianist Willie Pickens will lead a band of local all stars in a Jazz Brunch 1:30 p.m. Sunday, February 19 at The Bistro, 3536 Washington Ave. It’s a benefit for the Institute for the Advancement of Jazz Study & Performance.
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The Rep’s production of David Mamet’s Race continues through March 4 at the Loretto-Hilton Center for Performing Arts (on the campus of Webster University), 130 Edgar Rd.
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Opera Theatre of St. Louis brought Kendall Gladen home last week to teach public school students at Dunbar Elementary School (above), meet young professionals at Centene Center, perform at Shalom Church (City of Peace) and greet members of Links, Inc. and guests.
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New Missouri Supreme Court Judge George Draper III was welcomed to the bench by Judge Thomas H. Newton of the Missouri Court of Appeals Western District and Chief Justice Rock Teitelman after his swearing in ceremony in St. Louis on February 10. Draper became the second African American in Missouri to serve on the state’s highest court, following Judge Ronnie L.White.
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Former Missouri State Auditor Susan Montee was welcomed to the podium on February 7 by St. Louis Mayor Francis G. Slay and supporters at St. Louis City Hall as she announced she will run for Lieutenant Governor.
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Pastor Kevin Vanden Brink of New City Fellowship South City, Pastor Tony Myles of New City Fellowship University City, Pastor Mike Higgins of Covenant Seminary, Craig Higgins, John Higgins and Pastor Phil Brownlee of Peace Tabernacle.
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McCluer North High senior forward Jordon Granger will lead the Stars into next week’s Class 5, District 8 tournament at McCluer. The Stars are the No. 1 seed in the loaded district that includes Suburban North Conference rivals McCluer and Hazelwood Central.
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Last Thursday Missouri Attorney General Chris Koster discussed with the press the $25 billion national mortgage settlement reached with the nation’s five largest mortgage servicers (Bank of America, Citigroup, JPMorgan Chase and Ally Financial) for allegations of foreclosure abuses, unfair mortgage servicing practices and fraud.
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The so-called Tuskegee Airmen included a few female pilots, like Mildred Hemmons Carter.
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Frazier is getting a second and deeper look in recent years, but he still remains, even in death, something like a foil for Ali.
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To honor the contributions of the NAACP Youth Council, including John LaGrone and Constance Myles, the Missouri History Museum is hosting a gallery installation, Vashon High Activists, which opened Jan. 22.
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Whitney Houston’s rendition of the Star Spangled Banner before Super Bowl XXV in January of 1991 is the gold standard of all performances of this song. It also came at a time when this country needed it the most.
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Rodney Crim (Pres. & CEO of the St. Louis Development Corporation), Pat Brown-Dixon (Region 7 Administrator of the US Small Business Administration) and Michael Holmes (Executive Director, St. Louis Agency on Training and Employment )
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Ferguson-Florissant School District Superintendent Art McCoy with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Oratory Contest winners from the district.
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Members of the Shalom Church (City of Peace) Mass Choir performed during a memorial service for gospel and R&B recording artist David Peaston at Shalom Church last Saturday.
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Homer G. Phillips Hospital, built for blacks in the Ville, was dedicated in 1937, which included five buildings – an administrative building, a building for nurse’s apartments, a service building, north and south wards buildings for patients, and quarters for interns and resident physicians.
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Isabel Wilkerson’s classic of African-American history, The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration, has been chosen as one of the titles for Read St. Louis 2012.
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Joe Frazier was demented with how much he detested Muhammad Ali. I respected that, even when others told him he was being foolish and foul in some of the things he was saying about Ali.
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Ronald Herd II, whose artist name is Tha Artivist, donated a framed print of his painting The Legacy to Clara McLeod, the widow of Dean James E. McLeod, at the closing reception of his exhibition at The Nu-Art Series’ Metropolitan Art Gallery.
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Assembly Speaker Sheila Oliver speaks at the Delaney Hall 10th Anniversary Ceremony in Newark, N.J. on Tuesday, April 27, 2010. (Governor Photos/Tim Larsen)
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Whitney Houston’s rendition of the Star Spangled Banner before Super Bowl XXV in January of 1991 is the gold standard of all performances of this song. It also came at a time when this country needed it the most.
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The St. Louis Community Credit Union Foundation will award $2,500 scholarships to three eligible adult students in spring 2012.
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The Montgomery bus boycott was the product of years of silence, humiliation, discrimination and harassment.
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The Legacy, by Ronald Herd II, whose artist name is Tha Artivist, is a dual portrait of two pioneering Washington University administrators, Dean James E. McLeod and Dr. John B. Ervin.