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“How can you make a difference? First look into what breaks your heart and what makes you come alive,” says Dan Parris, Dan Parris, a St.Louis based award-winning filmmaker and founder of Speak Up Productions.

If learning disabilities, homelessness, young people without a purpose or poor education breaks your heart, and if storytelling/film making, journalism, administration, tutoring is what you are good at, it should be used to make a difference, he suggests.

Check out the full video on TedXStLouis.

The 56 journalists arrested or detained in the United States in 2021 approaches the combined totals of 2017, 2018, and 2019 — an alarming indicator of the state of press freedom, according to a new report released by the U.S. Press Freedom Tracker. After the unprecedented pace of arrests in 2020, some may have hoped for a “return to normalcy.” But as this new report shows, the press environment in the United States is still reeling.

The Tracker comprehensively documents press freedom violations in the United States, capturing arrests or detainments of journalists throughout the year — including four in the first week alone. Per today's report, some 86% of those arrests or detainments occurred during protests.

The report also includes a section on continuing legal charges for arrested journalists. According to the Tracker, seven journalists currently face charges stemming from arrests while reporting, including five from 2020 and two from 2021.

Read the report in full at the U.S. Press Freedom Tracker.

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Green Street plans to build a 5000 Square Foot 1920’s Speakeasy themed Bar at the Armoury Building in Midtown, St. Louis.

The developer intends to complete the project at half its estimated cost.

Check out the full story by Steph Kukuljan on the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

The National Security Innovation Network, a talent and technology pipeline for national security is a signed partnership between Cortex Innovation Community and the Department of Defense.

The program was invented with the intention of encouraging startups connecting the private sector with the Department of Defense.

The NSIN collaborates with several universities in the area hosting hackathons to collect various data.

St, Louis was selected by the Pentagon as an Innovation Hub for NSIN because of the academic institutions, entrepreneurship ecosystem, two of the major Department of Defense partners.

Check out the full story by Annika Merrilees on the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

Arch Grants, a non-profit, celebrates a decade of awarding grants to startups in St. Louis and beyond.

Jerry Schlichter, the brainchild behind Arch Grants, believes the impact is beyond offering employment opportunities and capital returns - it has helped promote inclusivity in St. Louis.

"When Arch Grants launched, Schlichter said the organization contacted every historically black college and university and women’s college in the U.S. to inform them about the competition.

Ten years later, Arch Grants said 69% of the companies it’s funded are led or co-led by a woman, person of color, immigrant or veteran.

Those figures pace well ahead of the venture capital industry, where just 2.4% of U.S. venture funding between 2015 and 2020 went to Latino or Black founders, according to Crunchbase, which tracks venture funding."

Check out the full story by Nathan Rubbelke on STL Inno.

A waning delta variant summer surge gave way to a spike of cases in November, as infections and hospitalizations rose amid concerns about a new variant spreading out of South Africa. The omicron variant hasn’t been detected in Missouri, but public health officials are watching. The first place it is likely to be detected is […]

The post Delta variant cases spike again in November as health officials watch for arrival of new strain appeared first on Missouri Independent.

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