As Missouri families navigate a season filled with travel, celebration and calorie-heavy holiday traditions, health experts say it’s also a critical time to pay attention to blood sugar. More than 600,000 adults in Missouri are living with diabetes, and many more are unknowingly on the brink of developing the disease. Between oversized meals, sugary desserts, […]

The School District of University City is taking a bold step toward equity in education and health by announcing a new partnership to establish a School-Based Health Center at University City High School. In collaboration with Washington University, Family Care Health Centers and the School-Based Health Alliance of Missouri, the district will open a center […]

“I lay down and slept; I woke again, for the Lord sustained me.” (Psalm 3:5) St. Louis, God sustains. In a season when rhetoric stalls progress, bullets fly and dreams die too young—where mothers mourn and fathers carry pain in silence, God is still sustaining His people. We know something about danger. North side, south […]

More than 800,000 people in the past 25 years have lost their lives to gun violence in the United States. Another 2 million or more have been injured.  A Washington University researcher and a new study authored by 60 leading experts offer alternative ideas aimed at reducing firearm deaths. Research and data collection are essential, […]

The program the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra is performing this weekend opens, deceptively, with a blast of quintessential feel-good music: Three Romances for orchestra by Clara Schumann. This is lush romanticism with a wall of violins, so consistently orchestrated (by Benjamin de Murashkin) it would serve as a good sleeper conductor’s audition. You want your conductor to […]

When 2026 kicks off, it will mark the 20th anniversary since Angela Brown, Nichol Stevenson and Rochelle “Coco Soul” Walker teamed up  to present their first monthly open mic series. Café Soul changed the game for the St. Louis music scene. Later joined by Tendai Morris, it was a run lasted nearly 15 years. Many […]

The St. Louis County Library rolled out its newest bookmobile on Monday, December 1, at Armstrong Elementary in the Hazelwood School District. A vibrant mobile library was unveiled, one designed to spark imagination and expand access to books for children across the county. Sponsored by the James S. McDonnell Family Foundation, the Books Are Magical […]

Child Care Aware of Missouri has hired Kimberly Paige as its Early Childhood Resource and Referral director. Paige will oversee the organization’s statewide childcare resource and referral services and help strengthen connections among families, childcare providers and community supports. She will also serve the Missouri Childhood Resource and Referral Center, which assists families in navigating […]

The Lift for Life Hawks football program has come full circle in making history for its school. At this time last year, the Hawks were leaving the field at Seneca High in southwest Missouri after a 31-0 loss in the Class 3 state semifinals. Despite the loss, it was a benchmark moment, as it was […]

The Trump administration’s intensified crackdown on diversity, equity and inclusion programs through executive orders and federal enforcement actions have created uncertainty for hospitals, universities and medical schools that depend heavily on federal research dollars. The Department of Health and Human Services and the Department of Justice have signaled heightened scrutiny of programs that may be […]

Courtney Logan has joined Thompson Burton as a partner in the firm’s nationally recognized Direct Sales and MLM Practice Group. Logan advises companies operating at the intersection of business innovation and financial regulation. Based primarily in St. Louis, his practice includes business law, fintech, trading regulation, compliance and government relations. Logan works with growing organizations […]

HOLIDAY HAPPENINGS Fri., Dec. 5-6, 7:30 p.m. The Bosman Twins: For The Holidays, Blue Strawberry Showroom and Lounge, 364 N. Boyle Ave, St. Louis, MO 63108. For more information, visit https://bluestrawberrystl.com.  Sun., Dec. 14, 5 p.m. & 8:30 p.m. Eric Benet: Holiday Tour, City Winery St. Louis, 3730 Foundry Way, St. Louis, MO 63110. For […]

The SLATE Missouri Job Center will hold its annual Holly Jolly Holiday Hiring Fair from 9 a.m. to noon on Dec. 4-5 in the first-floor conference room at 1520 Market St., St. Louis. More than a dozen employers and training partners will take part, offering opportunities in transportation, customer service, healthcare, education, skilled trades, IT […]

On Nov. 14, 2025, aboard Air Force One, the President of the United States pointed at Bloomberg reporter Catherine Lucey and snapped, “Quiet. Quiet, piggy.” Why? She had the audacity to ask him a legitimate question about the Epstein files. Days later, instead of apologizing, the White House defended him and implied that she somehow […]

Democratic U.S. Reps. Wesley Bell of Missouri and Hank Johnson of Georgia, along with U.S. Sen. Cory Booker of New Jersey, have introduced legislation that would allow workers and consumers to take racial discrimination claims to court rather than being limited to private arbitration. The “Ending Forced Arbitration of Race Discrimination Act” would bar companies […]

The weekend after Thanksgiving is a strange time. Thanksgiving and its companion shopping holiday have lost their hold on us, and Christmas and the New Year have not yet taken hold, but it is not business as usual either. We are down to the last month of the year, knowing that half of the month […]

The national tour of the latest Broadway revival “The Wiz” lit up The Fabulous Fox Theatre for the first performance of its nearly two-week run.  Opening night drew families and musical theater lovers from across the region for a reimagined production of the Black musical theatre masterpiece that took the Tonys by storm fifty years […]

Dellwood officials have launched a new gaming room inside the Dellwood Recreation Center, describing it as part of the city’s effort to expand amenities and create spaces where young people can gather safely. The center, called Gamers Paradise, includes six 55-inch televisions, gaming desks, LED gaming chairs, and a suite of consoles and equipment such […]

John Legend fulfilled his mission at The Factory on Monday, November 17. He gave St. Louis fans a chance to relive “Get Lifted”—the album that launched him from rising talent to R&B mainstay when his Get Lifted 20th Anniversary Tour stopped in the St. Louis region. He gave fans the chance to relive the album […]

When Darion Murdoch talks about the students he serves as principal of Flynn Park Elementary School in University City, his face lights up. He calls them his “babies,” and making sure they have what they need to thrive is his priority. Murdoch grew up in the community where he now works, so he knows the […]

Black farming has been a way of life for Gibron Jones and his family since he was a 6-year-old boy growing up in North St. Louis. His mother and father picked and cooked food from the garden they started at their Walnut Park home near Goodfellow and Emma. “I was blessed to have a family […]

Mrs. Mary Ellen Anderson died November 23, 2025, at Barnes Hospital following a stroke. She was 103. Born on January 28, 1922, in St. Louis, Missouri, Mary Ellen Johnson grew up in the historic Ville neighborhood, where she witnessed the construction of the great Homer G. Phillips Hospital. She displayed an early talent for memorizing […]

St. Louis, we’ve seen some things. We have seen promises made and broken. We have seen violence rise and justice stall. We have seen our neighborhoods grieve — yet we keep going. We have learned to be strong in the world, but the question remains: are we strong in the Lord? Psalm 3 reminds us that “the Lord […]