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Twelve-time Grammy Award-nominated soul singer Ledisi was so thrilled to take a picture with newly-engaged couple Damon and Tamika. Damon popped the question just before her performance with the St. Louis Symphony Friday night at Powell Hall.
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Karen Slack, who portrays the role of Charles Blow’s mother Billie in “Fire Shut Up In My Bones,” performed selections from the opera or Wells Fargo Advisors and invited guests as part of the company’s “Courageous Conversations” panel discussion.
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Terrence Blanchard performing during the Wells Fargo Advisors “Courageous Conversations” panel in March on the campus of Wells Fargo Advisors.
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Charles Glenn, singing the national anthem during a St. Louis Blues game. His performance ahead of Game 6 of the Stanley Cup Finals on Sunday at Enterprise Center was his last as the official anthem singer for the home games of the St. Louis Blues.
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Marne Madison’s team at MajestiKs LLC won one of the three awards given at the Ignite Missouri’s recent cannabis pitch competition. She said, “Our overall role is to be the representation and advocate in the cannabis Industry for the community we have grown in.”
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Downtown is a sea of blue as fans crowd downtown streets for a Stanley Cup watch party before Game Six of the Stanley Cup finals between the Boston Bruins and the St. Louis Blues in St. Louis on June 9, 2019. St. Louis leads the best of seven games, 3-2.
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St. Louis resident Cachet Currie shared her concerns with the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department with Public Safety Director Jimmie Edwards and Police Chief John Hayden at an aldermanic Public Safety Committee meeting on Monday, June 10.
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Flint Fowler, president Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater St. Louis (far right) along with 2019 Alumni Hall of Honor inductees: Precious Johnson, Cardin Dean Rackley, Mark Collins III, the mother of Kal-El Waters-Jones and the club’s 2019 Youth of the Year Kahalia Adams.
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Members of the Sankofa Unity Center carried a coffin during the Radio One St. Louis and Better Family Life Wear Orange Day STL March to symbolize the lives lost due to gun violence.
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People committed to ending gun violence marched together from St. Alphonsus Liguori “Rock” Catholic Church to the Boys and Girls Club of Greater St. Louis on North Grand on Saturday, June 8 as part of the Wear Orange Day campaign presented by Radio One St. Louis, Better Family Life and co-sponsored by Moms Demand Action.
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The Herbert H. Hoosman Circle of Excellence Foundation recently presented college scholarships to three 2019 graduates of Normandy High School. Mohammed Ahmad-Gol, Rianna Curtain, and Antoine Hodge were selected for the scholarships, presented at the Glen Echo Country Club in North St. Louis County. The foundation, named in honor of businessman Herbert H. Hoosman Jr., raises funds for scholarships for deserving students through its annual golf tournament. The foundation presents the scholarships in memory of Hoosman, who died in 2017.
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Joshua Tyler, a former Donald M. Suggs Scholar at Webster University and current St. Louis American assistant producer, will attend the American Film Institute in Los Angeles this fall.
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Youth from the Westview Middle School in the Riverview Gardens School District marched proudly in the 109th Annie Malone May Day Parade in downtown St. Louis on Sunday, May 19. The Westview Middle School Marching Eagles placed second in the Band category. The Riverview Gardens High School band won third place. The award ceremony will be held Thursday, June 13 at 5:30 p.m. at 2612 Annie Malone Dr.
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Dwaun J. Warmack, outgoing president of Harris-Stowe State University