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Direct Cash Assistance Applications Put on Pause

3 years ago

An application portal for the direct cash assistance program has been put on pause after the city received over 10,000 applications in four days.

United Way of Greater St. Louis, one of the city’s partners for the program, paused the portal this afternoon to take time to process and review the submitted applications. Opened on December 18, the program aims to assist St. Louisans in need who have lost income due to COVID-19.…
Jenna Jones

Washington University has portrayed its cofounder as an abolitionist — he wasn't

3 years ago
Washington University has previously portrayed co-founder William Greenleaf Eliot as an abolitionist. In a contributed segment from STLPR’s Marissanne Lewis-Thompson, she talks with Wash U student Nkemjika Emenike and professor Iver Bernstein about how Eliot was not an abolitionist. A recent article in the university’s independent student newspaper, “Student Life,” uncovered the details.