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Youth from different schools and neighborhoods throughout St. Louis take the oath on non-violence and responsibility with James W. Muhammad of Dynasty Hip-Hop Inc. Mentoring Program. -
The National Black Church Initiative and researchers from New York, Philadelphia, Denver and Los Angeles are combining forces to address disparities in prostate and breast cancer mortality. -
Doug Eason will be inducted into the St. Louis Media Halls of Fame -
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Columbus Gregory will be inducted into the St. Louis Media Halls of Fame -
Vice President Joe Biden visits with resident Djuna Miller while Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon talks with Mayor Kyra Watson during a tour of tornado damage in Berkeley, Missouri on May 11. Tornados damaged or destroyed over 750 homes in the St. Louis area on Good Friday. The tornado also shut down Lambert-St. Louis International Airport for two days. -
Scenes from the Memorial Service for Paul Reiter held Saturday at Carmel of St. Joseph Carmelite Monastery. -
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Scenes from the Memorial Service for Paul Reiter held Saturday at Carmel of St. Joseph Carmelite Monastery. -
In the 2011 Ferguson-Florissant School District Spelling Bee, the first-place grade level winners from each elementary and middle school competed for the title of Spelling Bee Champion. The first-place elementary school winners include: Kelsie Johannsen, a fourth-grader at Combs; Abdullah Brown-El, a fifth-grader at Commons Lane; and Timara Williams, a sixth-grader at Johnson-Wabash. The first-place middle school winners include: Brittany DeSha, a seventh-grader at Cross Keys Middle School; and Jared Williams, an eighth-grader at Berkeley Middle School. The district’s Spelling Bee Champion is Isaac Orbin, a fifth-grader at Wedgwood Elementary School. -
An Honor Guard presented the U.S. flag and a military Salute at Paul Reiter’s Memorial Service held at Carmel of St. Joseph Carmelite Monastery. -
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The National Black Tourism Ensemble helped to reenact the Mary Meachum Freedom Crossing last May. The 9th annual reenactment will take place on Saturday at The Riverfront Trails on the banks of the Mississippi River. -
Walbridge Elementary School fourth-grader DeMarion Worthy, age 9, waved the American flag as his school participated in Sunday’s rainy Annie Malone Day Parade. -
Mark Reiter and and Agnes Veronica Reiter, brother and mother of Paul Reiter. -
Gary May, who has been announced as the first African-American dean of Georgia Tech’s College of Engineering, visits with Georgia Tech’s Fall 2010 commencement speaker Andrew Young in this file photo. -
St. Louis native Gary S. May is the first African-American dean of Georgia Tech’s College of Engineering. -
A student in the advanced child development class from Hazelwood West High School helps some Armstrong Elementary School first-grade students with a craft project in Michelle Chitwood’s class. The high school students must complete 15 hours of practical, hands-on work with children as part of a tech prep articulation program at St. Louis Community College-Florissant Valley. -
Eagles are champs The St. Louis Eagles Basketball Club 16U boys team won the championship at the recent Howard Pulley Invitational in Minneapolis, MN. The Eagles defeated Kingdom Hoops (IA) in the championship game. The Eagles also won the NY2LA Swish n Dish Tournament in Milwaukee. They are currently 22-2 this season. The team members are: (front row) Kevin Baker (Imagine Prep), Tyrin Williams (Riverview Gardens), Jimmy Barton (DeSmet), Anthony Virdure (Lutheran North), Cary Davis Jr. (asst. coach); (middle row) Shacquille Edwards (McCluer), Deshawn Munson (East St. Louis), Tyler Jordan (Eureka), Tre Harris (Edwardsville); (back row) Rick Maclin (asst. coach), Laroyce Eason (Fort Zumwalt East), Richard Reynolds (McCluer), Hunter Reine (Roxana), Nolan Berry (DeSmet). Not pictured, Rich Gray (head coach). -
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Riverview’s JaVante’ Phipps won the Class 4, District 3 Boys High jump Monday at McCluer with a jump of 6’4″. -
Esther H. Vassar, national ombudsman and assistant administrator for regulatory enforcement fairness for the U.S. Small Business Administration, spoke last Thursday at a roundtable of local business owners and representatives of federal agencies held in the downtown St. Louis office of the SBA. Listening beside her is Patricia Brown-Dixon, regional administrator for the SBA’s Region VII, which includes Missouri.