• Tom Bailey, R&B singer Joe and stage manager Tiffani Stanfield

  • Uhuru Salon presents the 2nd Annual Natural Hair Revolution 7 p.m. Sunday, August 18 at The Four Seasons Hotel.

  • “Lee Daniels’ The Butler”

  • MODELS: Liyah Johnson, Kevin Bigham, Jr., Aaron Royster, Rhonni Rose Mantilla

    Stylist: Danie Rae, Style Broker Wardrobe Provided By: Dillard’s (St. Louis Galleria location)

  • MODELS: Liyah Johnson, Kevin Bigham, Jr., Aaron Royster, Rhonni Rose Mantilla

    Stylist: Danie Rae, Style Broker Wardrobe Provided By: Dillard’s (St. Louis Galleria location)

  • MODELS: Liyah Johnson, Kevin Bigham, Jr., Aaron Royster, Rhonni Rose Mantilla

    Stylist: Danie Rae, Style Broker Wardrobe Provided By: Dillard’s (St. Louis Galleria location)

  • MODELS: Liyah Johnson, Kevin Bigham, Jr., Aaron Royster, Rhonni Rose Mantilla

    Stylist: Danie Rae, Style Broker Wardrobe Provided By: Dillard’s (St. Louis Galleria location)

  • MODELS: Liyah Johnson, Kevin Bigham, Jr., Aaron Royster, Rhonni Rose Mantilla

    Stylist: Danie Rae, Style Broker Wardrobe Provided By: Dillard’s (St. Louis Galleria location)

  • Mrs. Adele Henderson
  • Mr. Houston Gay
  • Newspaper in Education
  • Acetaminophen
  • Phil Atkins
  • Healthy Breakfast
  • Chipotle Turkey Burger

  • Citizens listened to Better Family Life Vice President James Clark explain how BFL’s amnesty project works on Saturday at St. Louis Community College’s Forest Park campus.

  • Aaron Phillips
  • Jovita Foster
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  • Lezli Baskerville

  • Former Berkeley High and Lindenwood University track star Mike Rodgers advanced all the way to the finals of the 100-meter dash at the IAAF World Track and Field Championships in Moscow, Russia last weekend. 

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  • Pamela Meanes

  • One of the rodeo clowns who worked the Missouri Rodeo Cowboy Association show on Saturday at the Missouri State Fair in Sedalia wore a false face that caricatured President Barack Obama – and was threatened with a stampede by bulls as a joke at this taxpayer-funded public event produced by state government. 

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  • Leslie Thomas-Washington, principal of Vogt Elementary School in the Ferguson-Florissant School District, the St. Louis American Foundation’s 2013 Monsanto School of Excellence.

  • Serena Muhammad
  • Latriana Boone, Lafayette Gatewood IV and Princess Hollins

  • St. Louis Public School Superintendent Kelvin Adams greets Melvin Jones, 6, and his mother, Ashley Jones, on Aug. 12, the first day of school. Melvin is starting first grade at Hodgen College Bound Academy Elementary School, 1616 California Ave. The district said 20,055 students attended classes on opening day, compared to a first day attendance mark of 20,283 last year. Adams said the district continues to enroll new students. Monday’s attendance figures do not include more than 2,000 preschool children, who start school on Monday, August 19.

  • Youth attending a summer camp hosted by the Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater St. Louis made a portrait of Trayvon Martin out of Skittles. The youth also performed a musical drama called Justice: A Tribute to Trayvon Martin. Trayvon Martin was shot and killed in Sanford, Florida by George Zimmerman, who claimed to fear for his life though Martin was carrying nothing more deadly than Skittles and iced tea.

  • Congratulations to the W.I.T.T.S. Elite 14U Boys on winning the national championship at the Mid America Youth Basketball National Tournament in Wichita, KS.

    W.I.T.T.S. finished 9-0 in three days to win the tournament. They have won five tournament championships this year and finished with a record of 42-8. Front row, left to right: Reyondous Estes, Kerrion Chairs, Joshua Nunn, Ryan Lacefield, Spencer Taylor, head coach. Back row, left to right: Arthur Carter, Richard Henderson, Alan “BJ” Wilson, Eric Krus.

  • Aaron Grimes, licensed funeral director and embalmer at Wade Funeral Home, teaches a career lesson to youth from the Saint Louis Science Center’s Youth Exploring Science (YES) program at a recent networking event.

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  • Nikia Gist and Leslie Broadnax are organizing two busses from St. Louis to attend a rally to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington.

  • Adrienne Jenkins Patel has work in Framations Gallery’s juried exhibition, “Fluid: Exploring Watercolor” in St. Charles.

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  • MLB Commissioner Bud Selig recently sent Alex Rodriguez of the Yankees home for 211 games because of a performance-enhancing drug violation, though he continues to play due to a pending appeal.

  • Bishop Luther James Blackwell
  • Brenda Lyons Kennedy – Carrousel member and event planner
  • St. Louis Community College Career Coach

  • Greyling Tobias, superintendant of the Hazelwood School District, visited with kids who participated in Sweet Reads, one of St. Louis County Library’s summer programs. Colleen Hall (in blue t-shirt) is the manager of outreach for the library. She oversaw the program which used two vans to deliver reading material to four apartment complexes in North County. In seven visits, the vans issued 3,344 items to 849 kids, teens and adults. To learn more about St. Louis County Library’s outreach programs, call 314-994-3300 ext. 2330 or visit www.slcl.org.

  • Sam Bradford found a reliable receiver in the Rams’ preseason opener in Chris Givens.

  • Ed O’Bannon

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