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Rebuilding what was extracted: Black entrepreneurship, HBCUs and Missouri’s future

2 months ago
We often treat Black history as a February retrospective, but the work of rebuilding what was extracted from communities like Mill Creek Valley requires a calendar without an expiration date. Mill Creek Valley was a once-thriving Black community dismantled in the name of urban renewal. Its destruction wasn’t caused by a lack of talent, entrepreneurship, […]
Stacy Gee Hollins

Spitznagel, Marilyn Jean (Heafley)

2 months ago
Marilyn Jean (Heafley) Spitznagel, 93, of Olivette, MO entered into the presence of the Lord peacefully on February 18, 2026. A devoted mother, grandmother and great-grandmother, she is preceded in death by her sons, David and Larry and survived by…