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St. LouiS AmericAn The
CAC Audited AUGUST 17 – 23, 2017
Vol. 89 No. 22 COMPLIMENTARY
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Black UVA alumni respond to Charlottesville racial attack ‘Bitterness, bigotry and hatred descended on the place we have called home’ By Sandra Jordan Of The St. Louis American St. Louisan and University of Virginia alumna Jessica Fowler and more than 200 other black UVA alumni united in response to the weekend events in Charlottesville that left one woman dead and 19 people injured when a 20-year-old identified as a Nazi sympathizer and white nationalist rammed his vehicle into a crowd of counter-demonstrators. James Alex Fields Jr. drove into the crowd
University of Virginia alumni Sally Steele, Dr. Kimberly Brown, Dr. Jessica Fowler of St. Louis, and Justin Steele.
after police reportedly called off the “Unite the Right” protest organized by white-supremacists. The protest, organized online by Ryan Kessler, was a reaction against the removal of a statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee. The responses are a result of hundreds of alumni coming together through social media and conference calls. They shared their words with some news media outlets and through social media. The group, calling themselves
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The dying breaths of white supremacy Pastor witness to Charlottesville outlines the way forward for anti-racists By Rev. Traci Blackmon For The St. Louis American
Photo by Michael Thomas
School supplies in Canfield Green Some young Ferguson residents looked through books and school supplies when the newly established Southeast Ferguson Community Association held its inaugural Community Appreciation Day on Sunday, August 13 at the Canfield Green Apartment complex, where Michael Brown Jr. was killed in August 2014. The City of Ferguson, Urban Strategies, Inc., Lions Club and The Lipton Group, which owns the apartment complex, co-produced the event.
Remembering Dr. Stanley Ladelle Anderson – my rock, a legacy Pioneering black OB-GYN, husband of Tiffany Anderson, passes at 49 n It was love at first sight, literally. There was just something about him, and he said the same about me.
By Tiffany Anderson For The St. Louis American Most people imagine and dream to have the spouse I was blessed with – a man who adored me and I adored him. We spent every moment outside of work together and on weekends. When he saw patients, I often sat in the parking lot and waited on him so we could begin our weekends together. When he had chemo, I called it our chemo and together we went every weekend and many weeknights for years. We were clearly a match made by God, as he was a complete complement to every area in which I needed to be fulfilled, and I complemented him in just the right ways. God creates people for each other to uplift his work and, oh my, what a joyous privilege to have had the honor to be Stan’s wife, uplifting the work of him bringing children into the world so that I could
Last weekend I joined the courageous people of Charlottesville, Virginia who gathered, first in the sanctuary and then in the streets, to offer an alternative message to the hate-filled rhetoric of thousands of white nationalists who gathered in the city’s Emancipation Park under the pretense of protesting the scheduled removal of a statue of Robert E. Lee. Friday night, people of various faiths gathered for worship in St. Paul’s Memorial Church to spiritually prepare ourselves, in the tradition of the Civil Rights marches of the ‘60s, to serve as faithful witnesses to love the next day. The sanctuary and overflow room were filled See PASTOR, A7
‘Courage, grace and class’ Michael Middleton is 2017 Lifetime Achiever in Education By Rebecca Rivas Of The St. Louis American
Stanley Ladelle Anderson, MD and Tiffany Anderson educate them. He brought them in and I took it from there, and together we improved the lives
of children in multiple states. We had this work covered – from the womb to college. On doctor on one end and one on the other. What a team! I can remember praying as I transitioned in my second year of college, praying that God place those in my life he wanted me to have for his work to be done. Soon after, while lost on campus at Saint Louis University, I met Stan. He found me. I was lost on campus, and my future husband found me far from where I See ANDERSON, A6
Michael Middleton said it was just in his bones to be a lawyer. “Growing up in Mississippi in the ‘50s, that was when the movement was happening,” said Middleton, current interim president of Lincoln University and former interim president of Michael the University of Missouri system. Middleton “I saw lawyers making things happen. I could talk, and I could reason. I wasn’t a big guy, so I wasn’t cut out to See MIDDLETON, A6