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The St. Louis American Foundation was founded in 1994, and, at the time, would provide about $80,000 total per year in scholarships.

The news spread on social media last week like a California wildfire: Mekhat Moore (57), founder of Napps Salon in the heart of the U. City Loop, had suddenly passed away. The family isn’t ready to reveal details of her…

Nicholas J. Booker loved basketball, St. Louis, and Forest Park.

Saint Louis University and Lincoln University announce a partnership that will benefit students in STEM fields and serve as an engine for workforce and educational development in Missouri. The partnership agreement will allow Lincoln University students to pursue select graduate…

The United Auto Workers’ six-week strike against the US’s three largest automakers appeared to be coming to an end on Monday as the union brokered a deal with General Motors.

John Carlos Armstead, Sr. will be honored at the Salute to Excellence in Education Scholarship & Awards Gala on November 4, 2023. Armstead is Assistant School Leader of Instruction at KIPP Inspire Academy.

St. Louis Community College celebrated groundbreaking for a $48 million Transportation Center on the Forest Park campus on Oct. 25, 2023.

Dr. Shawn A. Baker will be honored at the Salute to Excellence in Education Scholarship & Awards Gala on November 4, 2023.

For tickets and information on the 36th anniversary Salute to Excellence in Education Scholarship & Awards Gala on Saturday, Nov. 4, 2023, visit stlamerican.com. All net proceeds from this annual non-profit (501c3) event go towards scholarships for local, high potential…

James S. McDonnell Foundation (JSMF) awarded more than $2 million over three years to the St. Louis area Regional Response Team (RRT). The grant will be used to build organizational capacity and refine the organization’s innovative, collaborative, rapid response infrastructure…

Communication and collaboration were the call of the day when the Urban League of Metropolitan St. Louis recently opened its AT&T Connected Learning Center at its Regional Headquarters in the former Victor Roberts Building at 1408 North Kingshighway.

For Olivia Perez, being a Suggs Scholar was the difference between being able to finish her degree – or not.

Community members, students, and alumni of Central Visual and Performing Arts High School and Collegiate School of Medicine and Bioscience mourned the lives lost one year after a school shooting in south St. Louis.

Domestic abuse cases have spiraled upward since the pandemic, which makes the Third Annual Domestic Violence Awareness Rally and March held on Saturday, October 21, 2023, in the Grove neighborhood even more essential.

After meeting with Federal Transit Administration officials to discuss North-South Metrolink expansion, Biden administration officials at the White House, and attending Bloomberg’s CityLab conference alongside fellow mayors in Baltimore, Mayor Tishaura Jones took a COVID test as a standard precautionary…

The application window is open for families seeking to take part in the Guaranteed Basic Income (GBI) Pilot Program and the deadline for signing up is Wednesday, Nov. 1, 2023.