The Missouri Legislative Black Caucus will host “The State Of Black Missouri” town hall forum 1-4 p.m. Saturday May 6 at the Omega Center, 3900 Goodfellow Blvd. in St. Louis. The caucus currently consists of 19 state representatives and three state senators who collectively represent nearly 1 million Missouri citizens in the state’s urban areas.
The forum will address crime, juvenile justice, immigration, health care, correctional systems, collaboration with law enforcement, minority business and education.
“Our schools, communities and the State of Missouri is on life support,” said state Rep. Alan Green, Missouri Legislative Black Caucus chairman. “Our children deserve the best education available, senior citizens are afraid in their own communities, our black businesses are not thriving, healthcare costs have skyrocketed, criminals have claimed St. Louis as their own. How do we collaborate with law enforcement for the benefit of all? And are our children graduating ready to attend institutions of higher learning? There is an urgency to address these issues.”
The Omega Center is home of the St. Louis Upsilon Omega Chapter of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc., and the Upsilon Omega Foundation, whose community service initiative has afforded the caucus the use of their facility.
For more information or for your organization to participate, contact Green’s office at (573) 751-2135, Paula Savage at Paula.Savage@house.mo.gov or John Ricardo Spence at (314) 762-7716 or OmegaGrants@aol.com.
