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Blake Strode of ArchCity Defenders holds up the Close the Workhouse campaign’s report during a panel discussion at the Deaconess Center for Child Well-Being on Thursday, March 7. Joining him on the panel were St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner, Michael Milton of the Bail Project, St. Louis Public Defender Mary Fox and (not pictured) Kayla Reed of Action STL.
Photo by Wiley Price / St. Louis American
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Comedy veteran Hope Flood, who was a regular on BET’s “Comic View” with The Laugh Lounge’s Jessie Taylor just before she took the stage for the final performance of her weekend engagement.
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Three weeks after the release of her sophomore album “Intuition: From the Minds of Women,” Alicia Olatuja is still euphoric over the rave reviews of her project – which features a collection of songs composed by women from all walks of life.
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Instructor Mike Pagano works with participants of Continuity’s film-training program on interview techniques. Continuity will be accepting applications for its 3rd Annual Media Training Program through April 30.
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Rachel Sledge-Ford and her husband Duane Edward Ford, a minister at Barack Christian Church in Hazelwood. She said that her husband also is her minister, “especially now with the way things have gone.”
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World Wide Technology recently hosted its fourth annual STEM Student Forum and Student Hackathon at its headquarters in Maryland Heights. Nearly 200 students from 19 local high schools were tasked with using technology to solve a community or school problem. Each team was paired with a WWT employee. Final projects included initiatives to use facial recognition to detect unhappy students and sensors to help visually impaired students navigate hallways to ride-sharing services for students looking to carpool and rewarding students with points redeemable at local businesses for staying off their phones during school hours. A group of Pattonville High School students that overhauled a supply closet for students in need won the $10,000 first prize. Each participating school walked away with $1,000 to support its STEM program.
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Koreyon Harris, a member of Boy Scout Troop 766 in Bridgeton, earned his Eagle Scout at age 14. He is also a member of Kappa League-St. Louis, serves as its 2nd vice president and sits on the National Kappa League Council. Kappa League is a mentoring program for young men in grades 6-12, sponsored by Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity Inc., St. Louis Alumni Chapter. Samuel Boyd III, polemarch of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity Inc., played an integral part in Koreyon’s completing his final requirements for Eagle Scout and donned his Scout Master uniform to preside over the youth’s Eagle Scout Court of Honor.
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Mayor Lyda Krewson and Public Safety Director Jimmie Edwards joined progressive activists and officials at the People’s Arch ceremony last July 6.
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Normandy Schools Collaborative re-launched its Viking Volunteers program in 2019. Volunteers help provide additional support to enrich the student experience with the ultimate goal of helping students succeed academically. For more information or to become a volunteer, visit www.normandysc.org.
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CBC’s Robert Martin (1) squeezes past Melville defenders Teddy Meyer (32) and Jai’ryn Pruitt (5) during Saturday, March 9, Class 5 quarterfinal game at Lindenwood University. CBC (23-7) advanced to play Francis Howell (28-2) in a state semifinal at 3:30 p.m. Friday at Hammons Student Center on the campus of Missouri State University.
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The campaign to Close the Workhouse held a public meeting at the Deaconess Center for Child Well-Being Thu. Mar. 8, 2019. Panelist for the event were ArchCity Defenders Executive Director Blake Strode, Circuit Attorney for the City of St. Louis Kim Gardner, Bail Project St. Louis Site Manager Mike Milton and District Defender for the City of St. Louis Mary Fox. Photo by Wiley Price / St. Louis American
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Lauren Collins, an associate at Sandberg Phoenix and a member of the Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis (BAMSL), read to students at Stix Early Childhood Center on March 1 during the National Education Association’s annual Read Across America event. More than 40 BAMSL members and staff volunteered to read to approximately 2,000 preschoolers, kindergartners and first graders in more than 30 schools throughout the Saint Louis City Public School District. The BAMSL Read Across America Committee is part of its Young Lawyers Division. Bring Me a Book St. Louis (www.bringmeabookstl.org) partnered with BAMSL to provide a book for each child to take home.
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Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner speaks about her office’s diversion programs at a press conference on January 30, with the St. Louis NAACP leaders and black ministers standing behind her.
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Jamala Rogers of Sistahs Talkin’ Back / Organization for Black Struggle at an October 2016 protest
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