Sylvester Brown

“We were prepared for COVID.” Kathy and Jerome Jenkins, owners of Cathy’s Kitchen in Ferguson, answered resolutely when asked how COVID-19 had impacted their business. Their answer was surprising, considering the disproportionate damage the pandemic has wrought on Black businesses, in particular. But the Jenkinses say their years as struggling entrepreneurs and the protests following […]

Making teachers more culturally proficient in classrooms Sometimes, out of chaos comes creativity. Such is the case for two Webster University professors, Vincent C. Flewellen and Marshaun Warren. The professors have launched an eight-week online course for K-12 educators, called “Social Justice and Inclusive Learning.” Its goal, according to Webster University, is to give teachers […]

Pamela Merritt has been wrestling with feelings of unfairness lately. Her older brother, William (Bill) Edward Merritt III, 51, passed away from COVID-19 last month. The unfair part about “Bill’s”

“It just feels like it’s never-ending.”– Allison Rabbitt, U. City teacher

The two-story brick home stands out on a micro block on the west side of the city. The dwelling on Clara Avenue, on a one-way street off Page Avenue is

“Somebody has to be in those buildings for our children...”

When asked about the news that she’d been selected to receive The St. Louis American’s 2022 Lifetime Achiever in Health Care award, Vetta L. Sanders Thompson said she was “definitely

Laronda Griffin was born to educate. As a child she remembers setting her dolls up in a make-believe classroom and playing teacher.

Alex & DJ Johnson don’t fit in the categories of anti-vaxxers or COVID conspiracy theorists.

I learned a valuable lesson while I ran my nonprofit, the Sweet Potato Project. Its mission was to teach urban youth how to become entrepreneurs in their own neighborhoods by