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Some historians mark the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s murder as the end of the civil rights movement. Over an arc of 14 years — from the 1954 Brown Decision to King’s death in 1968 — the nation attempted to address its racial caste system. The same nation that launched a war on hunger and […]

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This post continues looking at Martin Luther King Jr. Drive in St. Louis, west of Kingshighsway. For east of Kingshighway see Part 1. The MLK corridor is underserved by financial institutions, so it’s nice to see a bank on the NW corner of MLK & Belt Ave., within the huge ...

Civil rights activist Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated on Aril 4, 1968 in Memphis, Tennessee. In response cities began renaming streets in Black/Africian-American areas in his honor. St. Louis was a little slow at making this happen, it wasn’t until 1972 that Franklin & Easton Avenues became Dr. ...

On January 16, the nation will mark its 37th national holiday honoring the life of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968). Across the country observances will chronicle how one man’s efforts pricked the moral conscience of the nation in…

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This is the second shooting involving a teen in 2023 for the City of St. Louis.

We’re about to learn a lot more about the early days of The Police, thanks to Stewart Copeland. The drummer has announced that diaries he kept in the '70s are being compiled for a new…

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Remember the lesson of what Dr. King’s dreaming has taught us: the ultimate good comes when we endeavor to do what is difficult but necessary, writes Stifel's Benjamin Ola. Akande.

We need coalitions of conscience now more than ever.

St. Louis police said the man suspected of shooting and killing Ronald Cline Jr. and Leslie Barstow was arrested after crashing his car on Interstate 55.

Pete Buttigieg’s personnel choices were certainly a factor.

The attorney general of Alabama finally went where the logic of the anti-abortion movement has long pointed.

Drive or walk through the heart of historic downtown Cottleville, and you can't miss the old building under construction at 5521 Oak Street.

St. Charles County officials say they are making real progress reversing a big spike in car thefts and auto break-ins.

Illinois State Police (ISP) officials investigated two separate Move Over Law related crashes involving ISP squad cars within two days, according to a news release.

The constitutional amendment legalizing recreational marijuana in Missouri won voter approval in November but created a schism among social-justice activists over the question of racial and economic equity.