Dawn Suggs

If you’re a registered voter who didn’t have time to request an absentee voting ballot, but want to avoid delays and complications on election day, Tuesday, November 5, 2024, there are still options for you to vote early in St. Louis City and County.  All you need is a state or federally issued picture ID, […]

Jackie Joyner-Kersee is the 2024 Salute to Excellence in Education Lifetime Achiever The 37th Annual Salute to Excellence in Education Scholarship and Awards Gala was held Saturday, Oct. 12, 2024. This video is a tribute to the 2024 Lifetime Achiever Jackie Joyner-Kersee, an educator and an Olympian who continues to leverage her success to give back to the children and families of her native East St. Louis through the Jackie Joyner-Kersee Academy, Center, Foundation, utilizing "Winning in life" philosophy and principles. This year's Salute to Excellence in Education gala was produced by The St. Louis American Foundation, Steward Family Foundation and World Wide Technology. Video by Dawn Suggs | St. Louis American

Luxuriate in Vanessa Frost lip-syncing to Halle Bailey’s “Part of Your World”, giving face and body and life! Don’t sleep on Nanyamka Ewing in head gear pulling her wagon. Host Maxi Glamour spoke on Pride being a time when it’s important to center trans and non-binary folk, marginalized within their own LGBTQIA community while being […]

Pride 2024 Kick-off with Opera Theatre of Saint Louis “It’s about acknowledging and celebrating the LGBTQIA plus members of our company and our community,” said General Director of Opera Theatre of Saint Louis Andrew Jorgenson on June 1, the first day of Pride, at the special Pride Opening Night of Giacommo Puccini’s opera “La bohème” […]

The holidays offer joyful festivities and carefree abandonment for many; however, they can also be a time of isolation and a pressure cooker of emotions and expectations for those who face a great deal of stress and duress already.  Studies show that domestic abuse and violence increases during such major holidays as Thanksgiving, Christmas and […]

On a bright, crisp morning in October, a crowd of Donald Suggs Jr.’s friends, neighbors, and family from across the country gathered at the southwest corner of East 6th street and Avenue B in New York City’s East Village. In front of a verdant community garden, they witnessed the unveiling of the street sign “Donald […]

On Tuesday, the State of Missouri executed Kevin Johnson.

It is at this inflective moment for the rule of law and social and economic justice in this country, that one of the nation’s only two major political parties is

St. Louis American reporter Danielle Brown spoke with U.S.Senate Candidate Trudy Busch Valentine (D-Missouri) at The 2022 Education Salute program on Saturday, October 1, 2022. Busch said if elected she’d sit down with St. Louis Mayor Tishaura Jones to find out her top three concerns for the city of St. Louis. The American asked Mayor […]

Sound glitches aside, The 94th Oscar award show started off like the shows of yesteryear before the pandemic with nominees and celebrities decked in bold fashions and finery being interviewed,