Baby Blue of Pretty Ricky is showing improvement after being shot in a robbery at SpareZ Bowling Alley in Davie, Florida. Baby Blue’s brother and groupmate, Spectacular Smith, said he was trying to defend his cousin and attempted to grab one of the suspect’s guns. The suspects were allegedly trying to snatch a gold necklace. […]
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Adam Layne brings education experience to the Treasurer’s Office
Former Board of Education member to prioritize “budget equity” After Tishaura O. Jones was inaugurated as mayor, Adam Layne was sworn in as treasurer to fill her former governmental position. Layne’s roots are in the education system: His first job out of college was as a St. Louis Public Schools educator with Teach for America, […]
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WWT named to list of world’s most influential
TIME’s list includes AT&T, Nike, Pfizer, Delta, MasterCard TIME recently revealed the first-ever TIME100 Most Influential Companies. The new list, an expansion of the annual TIME100 list of the world’s most influential people, highlights 100 companies making an extraordinary impact around the world. St. Louis-based World Wide Technology, the largest Black-owned corporation in the United […]
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America’s real race problem
I recently watched “Amend: The Fight for America,” a Netflix documentary that I highly recommend, and once again came to the conclusion that America has a race problem. Captain Obvious would say America has always had a race problem, though we’ve never really talked about it because we have consciously refused to accurately define the […]
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MLB still struggles with lack of Black players, front office executives
When outfielder Justin Williams landed a spot on the St. Louis Cardinals 25-man opening-day roster, he helped make his team an oddity in Major League Baseball. With Williams joining pitchers Jack Flaherty and Jordan Hicks, the Cardinals had three Black players when the season opened in Cincinnati. Eighteen of MLB’s 30 teams have two or […]
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Finding ways to heal
Black St. Louisans Turn To Therapy, Nature And Family To Heal From Police Violence When a Minneapolis jury found former police officer Derek Chauvin guilty of murdering George Floyd, Janett Lewis wanted to jump up and down. Like other African Americans in the St. Louis region, Lewis is long accustomed to seeing juries acquit police […]
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New Northside responds to gun violence
Five people have been killed within 500 feet of the church was in our monthly deacon meeting on Zoom when a member informed me that yet another shooting had occurred at my church, New Northside Missionary Baptist Church. As I rushed up to the church building from the Family Life Center, it was déjà vu […]
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Missouri Senate rejects funding for voter-approved Medicaid expansion
Wednesday night’s vote sets up a likely court battle over the public health insurance program The Missouri Senate voted against funding Medicaid expansion Wednesday night, after a debate that will not be the final word on whether 275,000 Missourians become eligible for coverage on July 1. By a 14-20 vote, with four Republicans breaking ranks with the […]
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Reimagined leadership at cultural institutions must include greater outreach to Black audiences
Kwofe Coleman’s selection as the head of the Muny is a big deal, but the more meaningful changes in the performing arts institutions in St. Louis still need to come. Venerable institutions like The Muny, The Fox, and Shakespeare Festival of St. Louis have for the past couple of decades been adding more Black faces […]
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Biden flanked by two women in his first presidential address to Congress
President Joe Biden gave his first address to the joint session of Congress on Wed., April 28, 2021. It was also the first time two women were on the dias flanking the president, Vice President Kamala Harris (left) and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi. Pelosi was the first women to take her place on […]