• Margaret Sherer displaying her displeasure with the living conditions in the City Workhouse. 

  • Inmates of St. Louis’ Medium Security Institution, otherwise known as the Workhouse, rallied from the inside along with citizens protesting their being detained pre-trial in a jail without air conditioning on Friday, July 21, 2017.

  • Tamitra Williford protests outside the Workhouse.

  • Medical mobile unit now serving Normandy students

  • Michael McMillan, president and CEO of the Urban League of Metropolitan St. Louis, and Marc Morial, president and CEO of the National Urban League, greeted well-wishers at the opening of the Ferguson Community Empowerment Center at the site of the burnt-out QuikTrip convenience store in Ferguson on Wednesday, July 26.

  • Ferguson Community Empowerment Center grand opening

    Leaders of the Urban League, the Salvation Army, Centene and others celebrated the grand opening of the Ferguson Community Empowerment Center at the site of the burnt-out QuikTrip convenience store in Ferguson on Wednesday, July 26.

  • The Saint Louis Zoohas a new baby rhino in River’s Edge named Moyo.

  • The Missouri History Museum will honor Sr. Antona Ebo’s legacy on Sunday, July 30, at 2:30 p.m., as part of the exhibition “#1 in Civil Rights: The African American Freedom Struggle in St. Louis.” The event is free and open to the public.

  • “Detroit”

  • Michael F. Neidorff – chairman, president and CEO of Centene, and chairman of the National Urban League’s Board of Directors – was listened to by David Steward of World Wide Technology and Urban League national and local presidents Marc Morial and Michael McMillan on March 3 when the Urban League announced its 2017 national conference would come to St. Louis.

  • The Charmaine Chapman Society’s 2017 cochairs – Keith H. Williamson, general counsel, Centene Corporation, and Ann Cuiellette Marr, vice president of global human resources, World Wide Technology –  with Orvin Kimbrough, president and CEO of United Way of Greater St. Louis, at the society’s 2017 fundraising campaign kick-off at Lumen on Thursday, July 20.

  • The Charmaine Chapman Society’s 2017 cochairs – Keith H. Williamson, general counsel, Centene Corporation, and Ann Cuiellette Marr, vice president of global human resources, World Wide Technology –  kicked off the society’s 2017 fundraising campaign for the United Way at Lumen on Thursday, July 20.

  • BioSTL

  • Jayceon Street, 7, shoots out of the water as he learns how to hold his breath under water during swimming lessons at the Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater St. Louis’ Herbert Hoover campus on July 17.

  • Danisha Hogue

  • Constance Gully, the new CEO of Parents as Teachers, Mildred Winter, the national nonprofit’s founder

  • Constance Gully is the new CEO of the national nonprofit Parents as Teachers, which is headquartered in St. Louis County.

  • Inmates of St. Louis’ Medium Security Institution, otherwise known as the Workhouse, rallied from the inside along with citizens protesting their being detained pre-trial in a jail without air conditioning on Friday, July 21, 2017.

  • Margaret Sherer displaying her displeasure with the living conditions in the City Workhouse. 

  • Student
  • Jocelyn Savage
  • Usher
  • Ja’Mari Ward
  • Kyrie Irving

    Over the past three seasons, Irving has used the spotlight to show off his amazing handles and dazzling finishing skills. He helped the Cavs earn the first championship in franchise history in 2016.

  • Kyrie Irving has become tired of playing in the shadow of LeBron James in Cleveland. He requested a trade because he wants to prove he is one of the best players in the world.

  • O.J. Simpson

  • Services for girls’ basketball coaching legend Earnest Riggins Sr. will be held Friday, July 28 at Faith Miracle Temple Church (5320 North Hwy 67 in Florissant).

  • Earnest Riggins Sr. with the East St. Louis Lincoln Tigerettes
    Earnest Riggins Sr. with the East St. Louis Lincoln Tigerettes

  • The House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed a bill giving Congress the power to block any effort by the White House to weaken sanctions on Russia, offering a direct challenge to President Donald Trump’s authority.

  • Bishop Luther J Blackwell Jr. is pastor of San Francisco Temple C.A, 10191 Halls Ferry Rd.

  • Demond Buckley
  • Toi Little
  • Jason Randle
  • Daffney Moore
  • Jonathan Cunningham
  • North County Forever, St. Paul Saturdays to present Nonviolent Video Game Tourney at Microsoft Store

  • Eric Holder was the US attorney general during the Obama administration.

  • Photographer James Finley with Wiley Price as Price was inducted into the Missouri Photojournalism Hall of Fame in 2012.

  • Sen. Bernie Sanders will address the Republican agenda, specifically GOP plans for health care, in a speech at the NAACP national convention in Baltimore on Monday, July 24, 2017. Pictured is Sanders on June 23, 2017, discussing the Democratic brand.

  • STL County Library to open Discovery Zone & renovated Florissant Valley Branch August 2

  • On June 19, NARAL Pro-Choice Missouri and Reproaction held a visibility action in front of Birthright, one of 69 unregulated crisis pregnancy centers in Missouri.

  • Marcus Ryan and Jerrell Freeman

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