St. Louis American

Sylvester Brown Jr. has released a story collection, "White Castles With Jesus & Uncle Ray At The Used Tire Shop." He discussed it and his long career in St. Louis journalism, including his tenure at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, on St. Louis on the Air.

As the expiration date approached, St. Louis officials extended the eviction suspension through Jan. 31 to protect tenants financially affected by the coronavirus pandemic. Previously, the suspension was effective through Jan. 4.

This year, we produced a season that put a racial equity lens on the COVID-19 pandemic and a season about the current uprising for Black lives. As a collective we have faced this season's challenges head first and continue to press on by producing meaningful and impactful stories, which is why we wanted to know what experiences have other journalists in our region experienced during this time. In this episode we’ll hear from a correspondent for Kaiser Health News about the importance of telling the stories of everyday people during this time and a reporter from the St. Louis American will share what it’s like to work on a year-long fellowship to produce stories about COVID-19 affecting the Black community.

As a young man in the early 1980s, Wiley Price was spending many hours a day in the darkroom at the University of Missouri-St. Louis — and freelancing for local newspapers as well as the Associated Press. As he honed his craft, he noticed something lacking in the industry. “I wanted to start seeing our people in the news,” Price, who is Black, explains. Four decades later, the 64-year-old is still “documenting Black St. Louis history in real time,” as a recent St. Louis American profile of him puts it, even amid a pandemic.

Editor’s note: This story was originally published in the St. Louis American.In early April, officials at the St. Louis County Department of Public Health…

This summer, the St. Louis region made national news after more than 15 children were killed by gun violence in four months, leaving city leaders…

Michael Brown Sr. is unapologetically quiet and introverted.“I’m not trying to be mean towards anyone, but sometimes I don’t have anything to say,” he…

St. Louis County Prosecutor Wesley Bell is rolling out a new Conviction and Incident Review Unit with two mandates that will, he said, “safeguard the…

All too often the narrative that surrounds the lives of young black males nationally and locally is a negative one. However, the St. Louis American has…

More than 20 immigrant advocates and St. Louis clergy occupied the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) office in downtown St. Louis Thursday…