Y’all gotta check out my girl Kenya Vaughn’s “excluuuusive” interview with Jamie Foxx, online at www.stlamerican.com. It happened Wednesday afternoon, when the newspaper was already put to bed. ‘Ol boy was sure cuttin’ up for Miss Kenya.
Posted inPolitical eye
Inclusion in Edwardsville
The Edwardsville-based African-Americans for Economic & Political Assimilation will begin weekly political and economic issues discussions in January 2007. To receive notice of the topic for each weekly discussion, register by calling (618) 656-7515 or coming to 6935 Marine Road in Edwardsville, says organizer William R. Lambert.
Posted inSports eye
New Year rings in tragedy in Denver
On Tuesday, the Denver Broncos website offered no stories on the team’s upset loss to the San Francisco 49ers There were no statistics, no player profiles and no season recap. Instead, there was a simple photo of Darrent Williams. With it was a memorial to a 24-year-old man who was gunned down during the earliest […]
Posted inLetters to the editor
Alvin admirer
The St. Louis American is my favorite newspaper. Although I’m not African-American, I hope you don’t hold that against me. I’m very fond of Alvin A. Reid. I don’t know him personally, just through the paper and TV. But I would like somebody to tell the country where Bush is getting all that money to […]
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Carol fan
Carol Daniel has done it again. What a powerful article your “Protect Your Babies!” is. It is one that should be read by every woman and especially single mothers who may unwittingly put their children at risk, boys as well as girls. What an asset to The St. Louis American she is with her very […]
Posted inBusiness
Citigroup teaches girl scouts value of ‘making CENTS’
A group of area Girl Scouts, ages 11 to 17, recently participated in the program Making CENTS in the City at the Millennium Hotel in Downtown St. Louis. Making CENTS in the City focuses on building awareness, knowledge and confidence in the world of finance and money management. The event is part of a three-year […]
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Saddam and the hangman
Columnist Jamala Rogers We were led to believe that the case against Saddam Hussein was all about the search for truth and justice. The secretly released video of the hanging reveals a different motive. The taunts and curses by Shiites before Saddam’s death were fueled more by revenge for the “other” than anything else. The […]
Posted inLocal sports
The year that was in local prep sports
The Bonner-for-Irons swap, and more By Earl Austin Jr. Of the St. Louis American It was another tremendous year of high school sports in the St. Louis metropolitan area in 2006. Before we move forward to the excitement of 2007, let’s take a look back at some of the memorable moments in area prep sports […]
Posted inColumnists
GOP has discontinued the Ford model
NNPA Columnist Upon assuming the vice presidency in 1973, Gerald R. Ford warned, “I am a Ford, not a Lincoln.” What he didn’t say was that he was a Taurus, a model the automaker has discontinued as of this year. The Gerald Ford model has already been discontinued by the Republican Party, to its detriment. […]
Posted inLocal sports
Best of local boxing 2006 (part two)
Trainers and fights of the year By Glenn McBrady For the St. Louis American Last week we took a sentimental look back at the past 12 months of local boxing and cited those who stood out in categories such as “Pro Fighter of the Year” and “Punch of the Year.” There wasn’t enough room to […]