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As St. Louis celebrates the new year, a local organization is working to educate people of the significance Jan. 1 holds for African Americans.

Funeral Director Ozella J. Foster (second from left) celebrating the ground breaking of her new funeral home at Martin Luther King Blvd. and Sarah Street Wed. morning Dec. 29, 2021.

Jasmine Williams has joined Weber Shandwick as an associate. Weber Shandwick is one of the world's leading global public relations firms with offices in major media, business and government capitals around the world, including St. Louis. Williams was previously a…

Kingsway Development, LLC, a community-based company whose focus is on Urban Redevelopment, is planning to redevelop the former 30,480 square feet Union Sarah Economic Development building into an innovative event office building created to inspire and elevate. Construction is slated…

It was New Year’s Eve 1996: My cousin Anthony and I were sitting at his mother’s dining room table playing a card game. Our mothers were in the kitchen, laughing, smoking cigarettes, and telling old stories about their childhood. Our…

The organization behind Proposition R announced they would no longer push for a rushed enforcement of the proposition’s redistricting provisions in this cycle, marking a complete reversal of their earlier intentions.

Congresswoman Cori Bush (MO-01), Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (NY-14) sent a letter to Amazon’s Executive Chairman, Jeff Bezos, and its President and CEO, Andy Jassy, demanding answers about the circumstances that led to the death of…

The city of St. Louis announced Tuesday it received nearly $50 million in Low Income Housing Tax Credits (LIHTC) to help fund $100 million in affordable housing construction, renovation and preservation of nearly 600 units.

BJC HealthCare’s Senior Vice President and Chief Information and Digital Officer Jerry Fox received the 2021 Chief Information Officer of the Year ORBIE Award in Health Care.

An independent city department is butting heads with St. Louis Mayor Tishaura Jones in the search for the city’s next police chief.

In collaboration with Sophia Stephens of Philosophia Productions, Brian Owens and his LIFE Creative Group artistic infrastructure have co-written, directed, and produced two short holiday films, “A New Holiday” and “An Intimate Christmas,” which will both air Christmas Day on…

While many state and local elected officials were speaking out against a tiny three-bed medical center in north St. Louis being named after the crusading late Homer G. Phillips, state Sen. Steve Roberts remained mum.

A Kirkwood father is calling on Nipher Middle School officials to investigate and take disciplinary actions after his 12-year-old son was allegedly harassed several times since October.

Missouri voters approved medical marijuana use in 2018, and the first dispensary opened in October 2020.

The burden of Alzheimer’s disease doesn’t fall on all communities equally.

The building at the corner of Compton Avenue and Market St. has a long history.

Sunday, St. Louis native Jonathan Owens, a CBC High School football standout and the boyfriend of U.S. Olympic champion gymnast Simone Biles, had his first official start in the NFL. The 26 year old, who plays Safety for the Houston…

With a desire to bring pharmacy services to a historically under served neighborhood, Dr. Tracy M. Reed opened the TPD Pharmacy to serve the St. Louis community and beyond.