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The Deaconess Foundation announced Wednesday that the Rev. Starsky Wilson will step down as president after nine years. Wilson will leave the foundation in November to become president and chief executive of the Children’s Defense Fund in Washington, D.C.
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Tiana Bojorquez has spent much of the past several weeks thinking about how she can capture what's going on in the streets on a special canvas.On…
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As a professor of political science at Washington University, Clarissa Rile Hayward had a front-row seat for the protests and disruption that followed the…
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Activist, educator and writer Brittany Packnett returns this week to her hometown of St. Louis – the place where she participated in protests after the…
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The difficulties facing migrant communities at the U.S.-Mexico border have been on the mind of Webster University nursing faculty member Mary Ann Drake…
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St. Louisan Elizabeth Vega loads up a rental van with screen printing materials, Sharpie markers, and a box of flowers. She’s packing for a protest more…
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On March 14, students Cardinal Ritter College Prep High School walked out of their school and through their Grand Center neighborhood in St. Louis,…
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Since the fatal shooting of students in Florida in February, many young activists have organized walkouts, rallies and calls to action. On March 24, young…
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Civil rights activists are tapping into the success of the "Black Panther" film to encourage blacks and other minorities to register to vote before the…
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The #MeToo movement isn’t about what you think it’s about, founder Tarana Burke told an audience at Webster University’s Loretto-Hilton Center on…