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The Kwanzaa 2019 Unity In Diversity Festival was held Sunday Dec. 29, 2019 in the Ferrell Auditorium at the Saint Louis Art Museum. Dancers with the Kunama Mtendaji and the Kuumba Youth Performance Ensembleperformed.
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Singer and songwriter TreG gave a magnificent performance at the Grandel
Theatre Saturday, January 4 as he performed selections from his projects “I’m
Back” and “As I Am.” Maxa, Katarra Parson, Eric Donte and DJ Hoodbunny were
also among the evening’s featured artists.
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“Just Mercy,” a film inspired by the life and work of criminal justice reform activist, attorney and author Bryan Stevenson that stars Michael B. Jordan and Jamie Foxx, opens in theaters nationwide on Friday, January 10.
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Customers waited in long lines at HLI Alternatives in Collinsville to purchase recreational marijuana on Wednesday, January 1, the first day of legal sales in Illinois.
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Cardinal Ritter’s Taylar Higdon (15) drives past Lutheran North’s Neveah Howard (15) during action Tuesday, January 6, at Cardinal Ritter High. The Lady Lions of Cardinal Ritter went on to defeat the Crusaders 52-49.
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Tommy L. Davis Jr., chairman and CEO of TD4 Electrical, poses with his son Tommy L. Davis III, the firm’s senior project manager, at the Muny, where TD4 Electrical worked on its 100-year anniversary renovations.
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Tommy L. Davis Jr. is chairman and CEO of TD4 Electrical, a certified Minority Business Enterprise headquartered in St. Louis with current revenue of $30 million, 10 full-time office staff, and an average of 50-75 full-time field electricians.
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For the 5,000 students and their families in the Jennings School District in Missouri, the St. Louis Area Foodbank recently opened J-Town Market at Fairview Elementary School and the Jennings Educational Training School.
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Robbie Williams, Pebbles Williams and Jappy Williams, who lost three loved ones to gun violence in 2019, listened as the names of victims were read aloud during Families Advocating Safe Streets’ 28th annual candlelit vigil honoring victims of violence and their families on New Year’s Eve at Williams Temple Church of God in Christ in North St. Louis.
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St. Louis Public Safety Director Jimmie Edwards stood with Ronda Boykin and Ronnie Robinson as they spoke about the loss of their son Breyon Robinson, whose burned corpse was found in a dumpster in 2018. Families Advocating Safe Streets held its 28th annual candlelit vigil honoring victims of violence and their families on New Year’s Eve at Williams Temple Church of God in Christ in North St. Louis.
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St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kimberly Gardner addressed the press surrounded by supporters last July. Gardner claims her efforts to reform criminal justice in St. Louis are being obstructed by circuit judges.
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Gabriel Lockett helped his mentor, Darren Seals, stack bricks at the Sankofa Unity Center, a mentoring program Seals established in the Walnut Park neighborhood, on Monday, January 6. Seals coached Lockett through a felony redirect program established by St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kimberly Gardner.
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Quinton Davis was one of 10 local artists whose winning artwork will be showcased on the Metro Transit system as part of the MetroScapes Arts in Transit, Inc. program. His ink-on-paper drawing titled “(ECAEP EVAH SU TEL)” (that is “Let us have peace” spelled backwards) depicts two linked hands of different shades reaching out from two clusters of multiple hands of varying shades. The 17-year old high school senior from Belleville said his original inspiration stemmed from the fact that there is so much unrest in the country, racial and otherwise. “I want people who see it to be able to think of a future where people would have a kind of Utopia,” he said, “where people have gotten past a lot of the things that keep us from coming together and loving each other.” The competition attracted 471 submissions from 224 artists who live within a 50-mile radius of St. Louis. For more information, visit artsintransit.org.
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“I know how devastating this disease can be. My mother passed away 13 years ago from Alzheimer’s, and my sister, who is one of my biggest cheerleaders, has dementia.” – Bishop Harry L. Seawright
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The community marched to Silence the Violence in St. Louis in June 2019.
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“The right to vote is the right to a voice in our government, and there always will be those who seek to silence the voices of others,” said Assistant House Minority Leader Tommie Pierson Jr., D-St. Louis.
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St. Louis Treasurer Tishaura O. Jones spoke at the Family Advocating Safe Streets vigil on New Year’s Eve as Comptroller Darlene Green, Mayor Lyda Krewson and Police Chief John Hayden listened.
Photo by Wiley Price
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For the 5,000 students and their families in the Jennings School District in Missouri, the St. Louis Area Foodbank recently opened J-Town Market at Fairview Elementary School and the Jennings Educational Training School.
Photos by Jennings School District