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Five entrepreneurs have been selected to participate in UMSL’s second Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Accelerator.

The Urban League of Metropolitan Saint Louis announced a partnership with Simmons Bank Wednesday, which will establish a full-service bank branch on the first floor of the league’s headquarters, formerly the Old Sears Building.

While federal authorities on Thursday permanently reversed restrictions on the first of a two-pill medication abortion regime, Missourians are still unable to receive the medication by mail.

Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt sent letters last week to more than 30 school districts and health agencies across the state declaring they must end their mask mandates immediately.

The Action St. Louis office caught fire Dec. 5, severely damaging the building and leaving the office uninhabitable.

The 15th Annual Midwest Showdown Shootout, presented by Terrell Ramey of Ramey basketball, tips off Saturday at St. Louis Community College at Meramec.

Black reproductive rights leaders with the Planned Parenthood Action Council of North County met Dec. 11 to discuss how Black elected officials can collaborate with activists to ensure reproductive rights from bedrooms to prison cells.

As COVID-19 cases continue to grow exponentially, public officials continue to advocate for public health orders, including mask mandates.

Rep. Cori Bush, D-Missouri, held a community check-in online Monday addressing mental health amid the COVID-19 pandemic, overdose crisis and gun violence epidemic.

Dr. Matifadza Hlatshwayo Davis doesn’t have the luxury to complain.

The Greater St. Mark (GSM) Community Empowerment Foundation will host its second annual Mix, Mingle and Mentor Luncheon at 11 a.m., Monday, Dec. 20, at St. Louis Community College Florissant Valley.

The city will hold an in-person event Saturday to assist residents with the $500 direct cash assistance application process.

With the future of the nation’s reproductive rights in the hands of a conservative-leaning Supreme Court, the St. Louis Board of Aldermen on Friday, Dec. 3, adopted a resolution declaring the city a “sexual and reproductive health care safe zone.”

In early 2019, I had the opportunity to interview Robert Norman Vickers, Sr., who passed away on Dec. 4, 2021, at 94. One of his three sons, the late Atty. Eric E. Vickers was a long-time supporter of my writing…

The St. Louis Board of Aldermen passed Resolution 138 at the full Board of Aldermen meeting on Friday, Dec. 9. The resolution deems the naming of developer Paul Mckee's new medical facility ‘Homer G. Phillips Hospital’ as “inappropriate cultural appropriation."…

This is the fifth report in The St. Louis American's presentation of "The Barren Mile: COVID19 and the fight against food apartheid," a national series, preceded by Pandemic pushes more Black Americans to take up urban farming to fight 'food…

After an almost hour-long debate Wednesday about a coin toss, the city’s aldermen confirmed the numbers of the 14 new wards and perfected the map, meaning just one more vote is needed before it heads to St. Louis Mayor Tishaura…