• Samuel Stroope, a Baylor University doctoral student, used national data from 387 congregations and more than 100,000 worshippers to explore the interplay between church members’ educational backgrounds. His article is titled “Education and Religion: Individual, Congregational, and Cross-Level Interaction Effects on Biblical Literalism.”

  • Mario Farwell
  • Niyi Coker
  • Roz Gonsalvez White-Vincent

  • Newlyweds Tiara Allease and Terrence Deon Curry Sr.

  • Wendi Allmon Duplessis, daughter of Gail and Wendell Allmon, is featured in the September 2011 issue of Essence Magazine.

  • Gary Vincent and Roz Gonsalvez White-Vincent star in

    Spoonful of Honey Theatre’s inaugural production Pearl

    Bailey…By Request Friday, Aug. 26 at the Missouri History

    Museum.

  • Photo by Lawrence Bryant

  • License Collector Michael McMillan paid his respects last week as St. Louis Community Chancellor Dr. Myrtle E.B. Dorsey was hosted by the Kwame Foundation. Anisha Morrell, special assistant to the chancellor, and community leader Ida Goodwin Woolfolk also were in attendance.

  • Gospel songstress Yolanda Adams brought her Health and Lifestyle Tour to this year’s Missouri Black Expo on Sunday at the America’s Center.

  • Cheryl Polk

  • Hazelwood middle school students demonstrate what they learned about paddling a canoe near the Grand Tetons in Wyoming this summer. Students from all six district middle schools visited the Teton Science Schools, where they hiked, camped, learned about ecology and more. Assistant Superintendent Dr. Steve Sandbothe and Carrie Launius, the district’s learning facilitator who also coordinates science, led the drive to raise awareness and interest in the trip. To read student blog entries about the trip, visit http://hsdtetontrip.edublogs.org. To view more photos from the trip, visit http://photobucket.com/Teton2011. Plans are already underway for another visit next summer. Students and parents will have opportunities during the school year, such as at Back to School Nights or Meet the Teacher activities, to get information about the 2012 trip.

  • MLK monument
  • Walle Amusa
  • Stanton Lawrence
  • Joyce McRath
  • Art McCoy
  • Natissia Small
  • Marsha Merry
  • Darnell P. Young
  • Carolyn Blair
  • Nikki Doughty
  • Latasha M. McClelland
  • Michelle McClure
  • Salute to Excellence in Education

  • James Green and Kevin Fondren were promoted to captains in the St. Louis Fire Department earlier this month. However, a report by the Firefighters Institute for Racial Equality shows that since 2007 African Americans have made up 22 percent of the firefighters hired and about 25 percent of those promoted, far below the city’s 50 percent black population.

  • The Reid Scholarship Foundation recently awarded scholarships to Sam Brown- University City High School; Lee Fuqua- Hazelwood West High School; DaWon Baker- Hazelwood East High School; Donathan Walters- Cardinal Ritter High School; Jibri Robinson- Cardinal Ritter High School; Hezekiah McCaskill- Parkway North High School; and Jarrod Doyle- McCluer North High School at the 100 Black Men Building in Saint Louis.

    2011 RSF Scholarship recipients seated from left to right: Sam Brown, Lee Fuqua, DaWon Baker, Donathan Walters, Jibri Robinson, Hezekiah McCaskill, and Jarrod

    Doyle.

    2011 RSF Board Members standing from left to right: Ebony Tidwell, Selena Eunice Washington, Aisha White, DeMarco Davidson, April Warren-Grice, and Misha Sampson. RSF Board Members Not Pictured: Sabrina Baldwin, Ebony

    Ingram, Ada Johnson, and Monica Perry.

  • East St. Louis Senior High Flyers football stars Lamontiez Ivy and Anthony Pierson are back after being unfairly dragged through the mud by local media last year in the ESL residence scandal.

  • DeSmet wide receiver and defensive back Durron Neal is the most electrifying player in the St. Louis metro area. The senior is committed to Oklahoma.

  • SONY DSC

  • Tiffany Fane
  • (William) Kenneth Freeman

  • Lieutenant Katie Harris-Smith, corps officer with The Salvation Army – East St. Louis, listens to some of the children who attended summer camp this year. The Salvation Army – East St. Louis recently received a $25,400 one-time grant from United Way of Greater St. Louis to fund its after-school programs.

  • The Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. will be dedicated on Sunday, August 28 in a West Potomac Park ceremony on the 48th anniversary of the March on Washington and Dr. King’s historic “I Have a Dream”speech.

  • The Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. will be dedicated on Sunday, August 28 in a West Potomac Park ceremony on the 48th anniversary of the March on Washington and Dr. King’s historic “I Have a Dream” speech.

  • Adolphus M. Pruitt
  • Dr. Albert Walker
  • Harry Johnson, Sr.
  • Lil Wayne performs during in St. Louis during the “I Am Still Music” tour

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