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Civil rights attorney and former South Carolina state representative Bakari Sellers says national police reform is currently dead, but there is hope through voting to change the makeup of Congress.
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St. Louis University's student government unanimously passed a resolution urging the school to address its history of slavery and compensate descendants for long-standing harm.
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The proposed issues for the report will likely include housing, neighborhood and built environment, education, public health, jobs and economy and state violence.
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The Missouri Historical Society will start Black History Month with a conversation on Thursday about Black contributions to the fashion industry.
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An independently produced report includes complaints of companies facing a double standard, bid shopping and closed networks.
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The local chapters want to improve literacy rates in the region, launching the "Right to Read" campaign with a mission to get children — especially Black children — proficient in fourth grade reading by 2030.
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Notre Dame Academy in Belleville and St. Ann in Nashville, Illinois will both close at the end of the school year, citing declining enrollments.
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The St. Louis Reparations Commission will be extended until Sept. 9. The commission was previously set to end this spring. Members asked Mayor Tishaura Jones for more time to engage with the community and to produce a final report.
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The president of the historically Black university in Jefferson City is now on administrative leave amid accusations of bullying from the former vice president for student affairs.
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Word in Black, a digital website that publishes national news and local content from 10 local Black newspapers — including The St. Louis American — has been incorporated into a public benefit company.
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The St. Louis International African Catholic Community organization brings Mass in Swahili and French to many African immigrants in the area, building local community and connections to parishioners' home countries.
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A recent study found online rental listings in St. Louis neighborhoods with more poor, Black residents are less likely to include a neighborhood name in their advertisements.