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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 Exvangelicals: Loving, Living, and Leaving the White Evangelical Church" was released last month and has become a New York Times bestselling book.
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The U.S. Justice Department has settled a discrimination lawsuit against Washington University School of Medicine. The suit claimed the medical school violated the Immigration and Nationality Act by discriminating against an employee based on his citizenship status.
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Jamaa Birth Village in Ferguson and St. Louis Mayor Tishaura Jones’ office are partnering to help St. Louisans understand the importance of Black doulas.
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While the holy month is typically marked by fasting, celebratory feasts and charity, some Muslims in the St. Louis area said this year's felt more somber.
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The FDA approved in December two cell-based gene therapies for sickle cell disease. Doctors and medical professionals say the therapies mark major advances in treatment. Black St. Louisans with the disease are hopeful that the approvals of the treatment will be life-changing but are worried about costs, risks and accessibility.
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Black Girls Do STEM and YouScience released the 2024 Black Students and STEM Report that shows that Black students across the nation have the aptitude to enter STEM careers, but they lack interest in pursuing them.
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St. Louis-based artist Damon Davis worked with the experimental classical ensemble Alarm Will Sound to create “Ligeia Mare,” an opera based in Black musical forms. They’ll perform a 20-minute excerpt tonight in a program that also includes new music by seven other composers.
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The East St. Louis race riot in 1917 is one of the most violent race massacres in the country and the most violent riot in the area. This riot was a predecessor of the Tulsa Race Massacre in 1921, and Viola Fletcher, one of the last survivors of the riot, said Tuesday at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville that reparations are due to survivors and their descendants.
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Leaders of the IN UNISON Chorus signed a contract with Fenton-based MorningStar Music Publishers to publish and distribute original music and arrangements around the world.
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The Prosecuting Organizing Table, a coalition of racial justice groups, has released the first of a slew of reports aimed at holding prosecutors in St. Louis and St. Louis County accountable.