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A Christmas gift of life

2 years 10 months ago
Highland (Illinois) High School boys’ basketball coach Deryl Cunningham received the best gift of all this Christmas: a kidney from his cousin, Tanya Woods, of Chicago.
JoAnn Weaver | The St. Louis American

Weber Shandwick hires Jasmine Williams as an associate

2 years 10 months ago
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…

Construction set to begin on Kingsway Development

2 years 10 months ago
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…
K. Michael Jones | The St. Louis American

Let's make a resolution together

2 years 10 months ago
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…
By St. Louis Mayor Tishaura O. Jones

Lawmakers demand answers from Amazon after warehouse collapse

2 years 10 months ago
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…
By Sophie Hurwitz | The St. Louis American

St. Louis style holidays

2 years 11 months ago
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…
Danielle Brown | The St. Louis American

Sen. Steve Roberts belatedly claims to see the light

2 years 11 months ago
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.
JoAnn Weaver | The St. Louis American