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As the search for the next police chief gets underway, St. Louis Mayor Tishaura Jones is inviting the public to submit input on what they’re looking for in the city’s top cop.

East St. Louis School District 189 was in a state of chaos in 2011 when Arthur R. Culver was appointed superintendent. The district, with about 7,300 students at the time, had failed to meet state standards for nine years under…

Breast cancer is the second leading cause of cancer death for American women according to the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI).

Washington University is as of October 2021 adopting a need-blind admissions policy. The university, which as of a 2017 report had the greatest percentage of students from the top 1% of any school in the country, has come a long…

Brian H. Hurd, director of community planning and implementation for Rise Community Development, Inc., in St. Louis, is a recipient of the 2021 Design Achievement Award presented by the Iowa State University College of Design. The award recognizes outstanding creative…

Forsyth School welcomed Robert Butler, Jr., as new head of school on July 1, 2021. Butler returned to St. Louis and joined Forsyth with more than 20 years of experience as a teacher, coach, and administrator. He comes to Forsyth…

The St. Louis Chapter of the Coalition of Black Trade Unionists (CBTU) will honor St. Louis American Publisher Dr. Donald M. Suggs with its Ernest and De Verne Calloway Award on Saturday, Oct. 16, 2021, at the Marriott Grand Hotel,…

Rep. Cori Bush, D-Missouri, held her monthly telephone town hall Thursday evening, where she focused her remarks on housing justice.

The Deaconess Foundation is accepting proposals for up to $600,000 in community investment funding through its mission-related investments initiative.

Gwendolyn Diggs has spent the past 26 years following her calling to work on education, educating children of all ages throughout those 26 years. She has worked in administration in Jennings School District, Ferguson-Florissant School District, and the National Institute…

UMSL’s Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Accelerator — which provides business development training and $50,000 grants to local entrepreneurs from marginalized groups — last week announced it would be accepting applications for its second cohort now through Oct. 29.

Starting this week, four libraries in the St. Louis area will be providing a new service: face-to-face meetings with members of U.S. Rep. Cori Bush’s staff. Patrons entering the libraries now walk past a table with a sign that reads…

Raven Taylor has been renting the house she shares with her 11 and three-year-old sons from the Beyond Housing program for two years. Her house, which sits in the Overland/St. Ann area, was built in the 1940s, and is one…