• Yaphett El-Amin director of MOKAN, and Adolphus M. Pruitt, president of the St. Louis NAACP, make a cameo appearance in the DOJ’s sentencing memo calling for prison time for William Miller, who was then-St. Louis County Executive Steve Stenger’s chief of staff.

    Photo by Wiley Price

  • Shante’ Redden, rising comedy star Kountry Wayne and Jo Lena Johnson following his Saturday, August 31 performance at Helium Comedy Club. He made a name for himself as social media sensation, but has become one to watch among the latest crop of standup comics.

  • BKM Fitness was one of many running groups to participate in the inaugural Northside Trap Run 5K and Community Festival in August 2018 presented by the Young Friends of The Ville. The event returns on Saturday, September 7.

  • Two of the lovely model’s from the 2017 edition of Pierre McCleary’s Hats Off Alopecia Fashion Show at The Polish Heritage Center.

  • Pierre McCleary (center) is shown love from family members Tiff, Shelby and Brittany during the 2017 Hats Off Alopecia Fashion Show at The Polish Heritage Center.

  • Chon, Sonji and Danielle made easy work of the inaugural Northside Trap Run 5K last year. Trap run returns to The Ville neighborhood on Saturday morning (September 7).

  • Best-selling author, life coach and ‘Fix My Life’ host Iyanla Vanzant, presenting her ‘Acts of Faith: Remix” Tour Thursday, August 22 at The Touhill Performing Arts Center.

  • Art-based developer Theaster Gates (middle) with Brian Phillips, executive director of the Washington University Medical Center Redevelopment Corporation (right) and Abdul-Kaba Abdullah, executive director of the Park Central Development (left)

  • Gabrielle Brown (center, holding laptop) assists Normandy art teacher Theresa Hopkins with her device. Brown and Ariel Piphus (at right) are 2019 Normandy graduates who served as interns in the district’s IT department last summer.  

  • St. Louis County Library and the St. Louis Cardinals are teaming up to offer a limited edition Cardinals library card in September for National Library Card Sign-up Month. Individuals without a library card are encouraged to sign up in September and take home the new Cardinals library card.

    A library card gives you access to free streaming content, books, DVDs, video games, online courses and more. Plus, you can check out interesting things with your library card including mobile hot-spots, telescopes, musical instruments, or binoculars.

    Individuals can sign up for a library card online or in person at any St Louis County Library location. A photo ID and proof of current address will be required. Library cards are free to those who live in or pay property taxes to St. Louis County, St. Louis or St. Charles County. Learn more at www.slcl.org/library-cards.

  • The cabin where enslaved people would have attended Mass at the St. Stanislaus Novitiate in Florissant

  • St. Francis Xavier Church after it was torn down, with an inscription showing where the “negro chapel” was located

  • Gwenetta Wilson held her 10-year-old granddaughter Marya Chapel close during a vigil for murdered children in St. Louis on Wednesday, August 28 at Herzog Elementary School where 10-year-old Jurnee Thompson went to school.

  • Rasheed Thompson, the father of 8-year old Jurnee Thompson, was comforted by a circle of mothers during a vigil for murdered children in St. Louis at Herzog Elementary School on Wednesday, August 28. Jurnee was killed by a stray bullet on August 23. 

  • Sharonda Edmondson, the mother of of 8-year old Jurnee Thompson, was comforted by James Clark of Better Family Life during a vigil for murdered children in St. Louis at Herzog Elementary School on Wednesday, August 28. Jurnee was killed by a stray bullet on August 23. 

  • Jona Ross, school counselor, talks with third grader, Noah, at Flynn Park Elementary.

  • Keale Siebert, third grade teacher, reads to her class at Flynn Park Elementary.

  • McCluer running back Cameron Cole (10) takes a hit from a Jennings defender during their home game Fri., Aug. 30, 2019. The Comets of McCluer went on to defeat the Warriors of Jennings 8-0 in a rain-shortened game.

  • Peter Queen (Hawkins), enslaved by Jesuits in St. Louis, as an old man

  • A scan of the ledger with the arrangements made with Mathilda Tyler so that she could purchase her freedom

  • Kelly Bryant

  • St. Louis Community College Chancellor Jeff L. Pittman, students, staff and builders celebrate the opening of the Center of Nursing and Health Sciences at the Forest Park campus on Friday, August 23.

  • SSM Health Cardinal Glennon Pediatric Specialty Services clinic in North County recently served its 1000th patient, Kymya J. Daily, and staff celebrated with the little girl who hit the lucky number. The clinic – the only one of its kind in the North County area – opened earlier this spring at 3878 Pershall Rd. in Ferguson, in combination with SLUCare Physician Group. Key services offered at the site on include Endocrinology, ENT, Gastroenterology, Imaging, Neurology, Orthopedics, Pulmonology, Renal/Hypertension, Sleep Medicine, Sports Medicine and Urology. For more information, visit https://tinyurl.com/yxt7gpwc.

  • Cenya Davis, 9, puffs on her inhaler in this 2018 file photo. A new Washington University study followed more than 200 African American children in St. Louis, a demographic that is 10 times more likely to visit the hospital for asthma than white children.

  • Neighborhood volunteers in Hyde Park clean garbage from the street. Black neighborhoods in St. Louis are more likely to be subject to illegal dumping of potentially hazardous materials, according to the “Environmental Racism in St. Louis” report.

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  • U.S. Rep. Lacy Clay, D-University City, speaks before a crowd of about 500 at a town hall meeting about gun violence on Wednesday.

    Credit Andrea Henderson | St. Louis Public Radio

  • Boys & Girls Clubs partners with St. Louis Internship Program

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