• Ledisi and Angela Winbush

  • Ronald McNichols stars in “Paul Robeson” with the Black Rep at Harris-Stowe State University’s Emerson Performance Center through March 29.

  • Jennifer Joyce

  • Ferguson Police Chief Thomas Jackson resigned on March 11 in the aftermath of a scathing Department of Justice investigative report on Ferguson. Here he appears on August 11, when he was pulled before the public by activists Zaki Baruti, Brother Anthony Shahid and James Clark to deny false reports that a witness to the killing of Michael Brown Jr. had been killed by police.

  • Stephen Curry and Russell Westbrook are two of the toughest players to guard in the NBA and both make an impressive case for league MVP.

  • Ferguson Police Chief Tom Jackson
  • Rodrick K. Burton

  • A candlelight vigil to honor three slain Muslim American students was held Monday, March 2 on the campus of Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. The SIU School of Dental Medicine and SIUE sponsored the event that commemorated the lives of Deah Barakat, Yusor Abu-Salha and Razan Abu –Salha, who were killed at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill on February 11. Shown holding a photograph of the slain students, from left to right: Munir Gomaa, Jasmine Abdullh (both dental students) and Nasir Almasri, president of SIUE Student Government.

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  • Sophomore guard Daniel “Peanut” Farris (#5) of Madison Prep scores two of his 21 points in the Bears 76-74 victory over Tolton Catholic in the Class 3 state quarterfinals in Warrenton. Madison Prep will face Kansas City Barstow in the state semifinals on Thursday night at 5 p.m. at The Mizzou Arena in Columbia.

  • Missouri State Highway Patrol Captain Ron Johnson accepted his Rosa Parks Community Leadership Award from Esther Haywood, president  of the St. Louis County NAACP, during its 11th annual Rosa Parks State Observance at Wellspring Church in Ferguson on Sunday, February 22.

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  • Frankie Freeman

  • Legendary St. Louis performer Gene Lynn died Saturday, March 7, 2015, at his home in the Central West End. He was 78.

  • Holden Thorp
  • Jame Paine
  • James Bullard

  • Jean Delance rescinded his commitment to attend the University of Oklahoma to play football in the wake of a shockingly racist video of frat brothers at the university singing about lynching blacks and never allowing them into the fraternity, Sigma Alpha Epsilon.

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  • Occupy Ferguson
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  • Michael Whitley
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  • We consecrated the grounds of the Ferguson police station by drawing the tracing of a dead body that symbolized Michael Brown Jr.’s.

  • The late Rev. William G. Gillespie, longtime pastor of Cote Brilliante Presbyterian Church, passed away June 2011 from Alzheimer’s disease.

  • Romekia Wallace

  • A large crown converged on Selma, Alabama on Saturday, March 7 for the 50th anniversary of the historic march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge on “Bloody Sunday.”

  • President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama led a march in Selma, Alabama to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Bloody Sunday on Saturday, March 7.

  • President Barack Obama embraced Bloody Sunday veteran Congressman John Lewis during the 50th anniversary commemoration at the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama on Saturday, March 7, 2015

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  • The Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater St. Louis is planning to open a new club in Ferguson Middle School, located at 701 January Ave., to serve approximately 400 members.

  • The blood drive is named in honor of Dr. Charles Drew, an African-American physician who started the American Red Cross blood banking.

  • The 7 Minute Workout app features 12 high-intensity bodyweight exercises, 30 seconds per exercise with 10 seconds in between.

  • Adolis Jimenez

  • Christian Gooden of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch advises Anna Schaeffer at a Media Now STL workshop.

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  • Karen Wicks, SIUE School of Engineering director of development; Chris Gordon, School of Engineering associate dean; Hasan Sevim, dean of the School of Engineering; Dustin Graumenz, turnaround coordinator, Phillips 66; Chris Johnson, human resources manager, Phillips 66; Melissa Erker, director of government and community affairs, Phillips 66; and Megan Allen, community affairs coordinator, Phillips 66.

  • St. Louis County Library

  • Six Flags St. Louis will open Friday, April 3 with a new ride for summer. Justice League: Battle for Metropolis is a 4D interactive dark ride experience.

  • Tiffany Shawn on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama as the nation commemorated the 50th Anniversary of “Bloody Sunday.”

  • The United States Naval Academy Summer STEM Program is held at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, on June 1-6 for rising 9th graders, June 8-13 for rising 10th graders and June 15-19 for rising 11th graders. 

  • Vernal Brown

  • Guard Andranae Wash (#20) will lead Cardinal Ritter College Prep into this weekend’s Class 3 Final Four at the Mizzou Arena in Columbia. Cardinal Ritter will face Boonville in the state semifinals on Thursday night at 8:20 p.m.

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