The St. Louis American had the opportunity to interview St. Louis City Mayor Tishaura O. Jones at her campaign office on ...

Paris Williams, 11, is on a mission to help the unhoused. This dynamic pre-teen established the Paris Cares Foundation when she was six years old and has distributed over 10,000 care packages to those ...

St. Louis area residents will notice a pair of familiar faces on the 37th season premiere of the top-rated CBS competition reality show “The Amazing Race” on Wednesday, March 5. And if there was ever ...

Bayer Fund, a philanthropic arm of Bayer in the U.S., has made a $25,000 grant to Legal Services of Eastern Missouri’s Children’s Legal Alliance program to fund efforts to improve educational outcomes ...

Nearly four years ago, singer/songwriter R. Kelly was convicted on nine counts of racketeering and human trafficking charges and sentenced to 30 years in prison. Last Wednesday, A federal appeals ...

The music of Grammy Award-winning gospel artist and songwriter Donald Lawrence is considered contemporary. But his songs speak to what it has meant to be Black in America since we arrived.  “When ...

Two years ago, rumors were floating around that Wendy Williams’ son Kevin Hunter Jr.’s, lavish spending triggered Wells Fargo Bank to seek a court ordered financial guardian for her. In a video chat ...

Rachel Burns, the founder of Bold Spoon Creamery who earned an MBA with an emphasis in finance from Webster in 2000, was recently recognized as a “Distinguished Alumnus” by the university. In a ...

Sports News Flash! An HBCU baseball team can beat a squad from the vaunted SEC. Coach Kerrick Jackson, the SEC’s first Black ...

As she heard the book being read about Charles Henry Turner, six-year-old Isla Smith’s eyes were as wide as her adorable afro puffs. With each new bit of information revealed in “Buzzing with ...

Houston attorney Tony Buzbee dropped the lawsuit filed against Bad Boy Entertainment CEO, Sean “Diddy” Combs, and Jay-Z that accused them of assaulting a 13-year-old girl. Combs, who is currently ...

A vital line of transportation will reopen in the Metro East when Blue Line MetroLink trains will resume service to the ...