As the March 8 election approaches, incumbent 5th Ward Alderwoman April Ford-Griffin is rechecking her voter rolls and making final campaign stumps to ensure another four years to complete her ongoing economic development plan and new housing projects. Meanwhile, her challenger, 5th Ward Committeewoman Cheryl M. Nelson, is also going door-to-door, manning telephone banks to […]

During the 2004 presidential and state election campaigns, Republicans wooed voters by suggesting they were more moral and more God-fearing than their Democratic opponents. While inaccurate and alarmingly divisive, the strategy apparently paid off on Election Day. Just over three months later, the national and state GOP finds itself being judged as “immoral” and “sinful” […]

Angela Davis’ long, memorable afro is styled in a more contemporary kinked-at-the-ends style, but her staunch stance against injustice has gone untouched. The longtime civil rights activist was in town Sunday and spoke with fellow activist and actor Danny Glover at the St. Louis American Black History Month Keynote Address at Saint Louis University. Glover […]

Late Tuesday night, the campus of Harris-Stowe State College and adjacent public spaces, such as this bus stop, were defaced with vile, racist graffiti. City police are investigating the incident.