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Lutheran North’s Cameron Griffin (21) and Kevon Jacobs (10) battle for a loose ball with Ava’s Spencer Skyles (44) and Zachary Mendel (45) during second-quarter action of the Missouri Class 2 State Football Championship at Faurot
Field in Columbia, Mo. on Saturday, Dec. 7. Lutheran North went on to win the state title 49-0 over Ava.
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The No. 1 team in the Class 2 Missouri Media poll, Lutheran North (14-0), won its sixth state championship and its first since 1999. It was the first time in school history that the Lutheran North Crusaders finished undefeated.
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Rev. Earle J. Fisher gave these remarks at the Deaconess Center for Child Well-Being on Monday, December 9.
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COCA’s ‘Winter Rep: A Movement in Color’ dance concert will take place December 14-15 at Washington University’s Edison Theatre.
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Donors Mary Steward, David Steward Jr., Thelma Steward and David Steward; Sheldon board chair Anne Bannister; retired Sheldon executive director Paul Reuter; and Sheldon executive director Peter Palermo at the ribbon-cutting for Steward Family Plaza at the Sheldon Concert Hall and Art Galleries in St. Louis on October 18.
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“We have constructed an economy and communities to allow separation from all that you view as negative,” said Chis Krehmeyer, president and CEO of Beyond Housing. “If my life is OK, why should I care about Wellston, Pine Lawn and Pagedale?”
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Skylar Wilson of Skylarlicious Naturals posing with one of her bath bombs at the All Girls Resource Fair and Expo on September 7 at the Center of Clayton.
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Rev. Michelle Higgins, Rev. Earle J. Fisher, Rev. Starsky Wilson, Rev. Jim Wallis and Deborah Krause (now president of Eden Theological Seminary) at the Deaconess Foundation’s Just 4 Kids Community Conversation on Monday, December 9
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Rias stands beneath a surveillance camera display at Chalie’s Convenient Market. He and his partners are trying to revive the store after taking it over this year, but they say the surrounding violence is not an easy problem to solve.
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Chalie’s Convenient Market in Washington Park, Ill., is known as the “Orange Store” among neighbors. The corner store just outside St. Louis is an authorized SNAP retailer.
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Combs Intermediate School fourth-grade teacher Renita Perry (left) was presented with a $1,000 Education Impact grant from Vantage Credit Union reps and Combs Principal Leslie Thomas-Washington (right) to purchase Chromebooks for her students. “Four more Chromebooks will allow my students to have technology at their fingertips all day to help them become more technology efficient by participating in podcast, webinars or making instructional videos to become stronger global citizens who are able to compete with their peers,” said Perry. Perry was one of five area educators receiving the Impact Education grant. Recipients were selected by popular vote based on a brief video submitted to Vantage Credit Union explaining their need for funds to impact education for their students.
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Lamar Johnson’s sister Candace Crisp and his mother Mae Johnson braved the cold to bring attention to Johnson’s case on Tuesday, December 10 in front of the Old Post Office downtown. A group of about 25 community leaders and residents, organized by Color Of Change and Organization for Black Struggle, demonstrated outside of Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt’s office to demand that he stop trying to block a new trial for Lamar Johnson.
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Brittany Johnson spoke in support of the release of her father Lamar Johnson who was wrongfully convicted in the 1995 murder of Marcus Boyd. Johnson was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. A petition was delivered to Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt to end his efforts to block a new trial and release of Lamar Johnson Tuesday December 10, 2019.
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Rev. Earle J. Fisher, senior pastor of Abyssinian Baptist Church in Memphis and founder of #UPTheVote901 (center), responded to Rev. Jim Wallis, president and editor-in-chief of Sojourners, at the Deaconess Foundation’s Just 4 Kids Community Conversation on Monday, December 9. To the left is Rev. Michelle Higgins of Faith for Justice.
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Grammy nominated rapper Smino made time to give back a day ahead of his sold-out 4th Annual Kribmas Concert with a special coat drive on Saturday at Clarity Salon. Rapper and poet Corey Black was among the many cultural influencers who came through.
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Brittany “Tru” Kellman listened to the heartbeat of Jazmine McDonald’s daughter when working with her as a student midwife in Ferguson in 2016. Kellman is the founder and executive director of Jamaa Birth Village.
Photo by Wiley Price
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On January 26, 2018, a five-member selection committee voted 3-0 to move forward with a joint proposal to explore privatizing St. Louis Lambert International Airport that includes Grow Missouri; Washington D.C.-based consulting firm McKenna & Associates LLC; and global investment bank Moelis & Company LLC. The committee members who voted in favor included City Counselor Julian Bush, Deputy City Counselor Michael Garvin, and Linda Martinez, the mayor’s deputy of development. Deputy Comptroller Jim Garavaglia voted to abstain, and Tom Shepard, chief of staff for aldermanic President Lewis Reed, did not attend the meeting.
Photo by Rebecca Rivas