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…
St. Louis leaders have challenged a new Missouri law that expands the rights of police officers and mandates local governments provide their legal defense in court regarding their actions while off duty.
“Hip-hop is ancestor worship,” Greg Tate wrote in The Village Voice in the fall of 1988. He always chronicled music with that fiercely worshipful spirit of sacred ritual. Reading Tate was a revelation, then or now, because he was a…
The 3rd Annual “Witty Kids” Holiday will be held Saturday, December 18 from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Urban League of Metropolitan St. Louis Ferguson Community Empowerment Center at 9420 West Florissant in Ferguson, Missouri.
Maryville University announced the Digital Development Project, a new initiative to help St. Louis small business owners of color grow their businesses online to meet the demands of a digital-first world that has been accelerated by the pandemic. The Digital…
Digital Development Project recently introduced Special to The American
Missouri could start testing small drinking water systems for harmful “forever chemicals” by the end of the year as the federal government ramps up its own regulatory efforts.
St. Louis City firemen from Engine House 13 assist seniors in being removed from a Call-A-Ride bus Thur. Dec. 2, 2021 after the rear tire fell into a unmarked small sink hole at Wells Ave. and Clara. One person was…
St. Louis leaders on Tuesday released eligibility criteria for the $500 direct cash assistance payments the city is providing some residents under the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA).
Developer Paul McKee’s stubbornness will soon be met with more protests as the battle to force a name change for a medical facility carrying the name, Homer G. Phillips Hospital continues.
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