The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will host three lead awareness training sessions in St. Louis to reduce childhood lead exposure in recognition of Children’s Health month and National Lead Poisoning Prevention Week Oct. 23-29, 2022.
Johnny Cotton sat front and center on Tuesday, October 11, 2022, as Mike McMillan, Urban League of Metropolitan St. Louis president and CEO, and other dignitaries celebrated the opening of a new Save Our Sons job training and skills center…
If you were planning on going to the St. Louis River City Historically Black College and University Football Classic, featuring the University of Arkansas Pine Bluff against Alabama A&M University … it ain’t happening.
The St. Louis Department of Health will soon hire more than a dozen workers to staff a new behavioral health agency designed to address the city’s growing mental health needs.
Unhoused STL is paying it forward in reach into St. Louis’ most vulnerable community. Founder and CEO Ramona Curtis, a former local reporter, has used her gift as a storyteller to bring awareness to the plight of the unhoused through…
With the national reparations movement gaining momentum, Central Baptist Church near downtown St. Louis will host a Reparations Black Party and Teach In at 11 a.m. Saturday October 15, 2022.
Lincoln University of Missouri is participating in a new initiative that joins 28 Historically Black Colleges and Universities with Strada Education Network, a nonprofit social impact organization dedicated to increasing students’ economic mobility by fostering more purposeful connections between education…
A partnership between the University of Missouri–St. Louis and the Ministry of Education in The Bahamas has brought a cohort of 20 first-year students from the Caribbean country to St. Louis this semester.
The Morehouse College Glee Club will perform in a special benefit concert at 7 p.m. Saturday, November 12, 2022, as part of The Black Rep’s annual GALA at the 560 Music Center at 560 Trinity Avenue.
After graduating from Whitfield, Danielle Kayembe attended Stanford University where she earned a B.A. in Political Science and a Master in Organizations, Business and Sociology. Danielle Kayembe is a female futurist and serial entrepreneur with a focus on projects at…
The Normandy Schools Collaborative is now home to a Believe Project literacy lab, an initiative of the St. Louis Black Authors of Children’s Literature [STLBACL.] A ribbon cutting ceremony was held will take at Barack Obama School on Sept. 29,…
The University of Missouri–St. Louis is among the most culturally and ethnically diverse universities in the state of Missouri, and its administrators, faculty, staff and students take pride in creating an environment where everyone can feel valued and thrive.
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