• Charmaine Chapman Society 2013 co-chairs Maurice and Brenda Newberry with United Way of Greater St. Louis CEO Orvin Kimbrough at the kick off event for this year’s fundraising campaign last night at The St. Louis Zoo

    Photo by Wiley Price

  • DJ Kut, MC Lyte and Ms. B.

  • Keys to Love by Kewana will present a Business Professional Speed Dating Fundraiser 6-9 p.m. Friday, September 27 at The Office, 5917 Delmar

  • “Rashid Johnson: Message to Our Folks” will be displayed at Washington University’s Mildred Kemper Art Museum from September 20 – January 6. The artist will attend a free public reception 7-9 p.m. Friday, Sept. 20.

  • MC Lyte hangs out with the crowd at ‘Salute’

  • Missouri Attorney General Chris Koster and St. Louis Mayor Francis G. Slay talk during the Attorney General’s Urban Crime Summit in St. Louis on September 18. Koster is holding the week long meetings in Kansas City and St. Louis, featuring speakers that will help spur ideas that will eventually lower the crime rate throughout the State of Missouri.

  • Lynell Johnson, a Suggs scholar at St. Louis Community College, is congratulated by Constance G. Gully, interim president of Harris-Stowe State University, while Timothy Moore, a Suggs scholar at Harris-Stowe, looks on at the St. Louis American Foundation’s 26th Annual Salute to Excellence in Education Scholarship and Awards Gala. Michael McMillan, who raised the funds for their scholarships, addresses the audience of nearly 1,500.

  • Christopher Reiter
  • Gary Pinkel
  • Gary Pinkel

  • Soldan Tiger QB Ronald Clower (4) tries to move past Northwest Academy’s Montay Walton (3) during Saturday’s game at Soldan. The Tigers would go on to defeat the Hornets 18-12. 

  • Mike McMillan looks on as Kenneth Smith greets Diane Garner at McMillan’s reception welcoming him as the Urban League’s new president and CEO

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  • St. Louis American intern Andrew Fowler is taking a year off from his journalism career to travel to Slovenia on a mission trip through Campus Crusade for Christ Ministries International. 

  • Dr. Ayo Barimore

  • Kevin M. Demoff,executive vice president of football operations/cheif operating officer, St. Louis Rams; Orvin Kimbrough, president and CEO, United Way of Greater St. Louis; Cheri and Ron Fromm, 2013 United Way campaign co-chairs (Ron Fromm is also chairman of the board of Brown Shoe Company.)

  • Hazelwood School District administrators pose with United Negro College Fund scholarship recipients at a recent awards dinner.

  • With support from the Monsanto Fund, Ranken Technical College hosted its fourth annual Adventure Academy summer camp for nearly 300 students interested in technology. One of the primary goals of the summer camp is to encourage students to complete high school and continue post-secondary education in STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) fields, as well as encourage parents to help their children achieve academic and career goals.

  • Sylvia Jackson, executive director of the Women’s Safe House, makes remarks during a domestic violence summit at the Missouri History Museum. At left is moderator Laurna Godwin and at right is Judge Paula Bryant, circuit judge of the 22nd Judicial Court.

  • Dwyane Smith
  • Harriet Clark card

  • Harriet Clark, owner of Humble Standards Greeting Cards, first met Ricky Kidd in prison as a minister in 2009. Now she prints and markets greeting cards Kidd makes in prison with other convicts.

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  • Ferguson-Florissant Superintendent Art McCoy Jr. at the St. Louis American Foundation’s 2013 Salute to Excellence in Education.

  • Awardee Clara Collins Coleman with her family
  • Jame Paine
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  • For the Common Good award winners for 2013, including Publisher Donald M. Suggs representing The St. Louis American.

  • Marlon Smith
  • Floyd Mayweather, Jr. celebrates with Justin Bieber
  • Randall Kerrick and Jonathan Ferrell
  • Walter Powell

  • The Tennessee State University Tigers and their Aristocrat of Bands are coming to St. Louis for the Gateway Classic Weekend, Sept. 26-28. They oppose Central State University in the football game and their Invincible Marching Marauders in the Battle of the Bands.

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  • Stacy Johnson
  • Pat Simmons
  • Deputy Fire Chief Charles Coyle with then-Fire Chief Sherman George.
  • The late Paul Reiter and his son Christopher
  • Patricia Washington
  • Noble Tobias

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