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

3 months 2 weeks 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)

3 months 2 weeks 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…

Trump Administration Using Gross Video Game Footage To Cheerlead Its War Efforts

3 months 2 weeks ago
We should all know by now that this iteration of the Trump administration absolutely loves using pop culture imagery, including that of video games, to help message its horrible policies. Want to gloat about ICE terrorizing American cities and generally pissing everyone off when they’re not too busy perforating innocents? Let’s use images from Pokémon […]
Timothy Geigner