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Vol. 89 No. 43 COMPLIMENTARY
Frankie Muse Freeman passes at 101
Frankie Muse Freeman in front of the statue dedicated to her on November 23, 2017.
Civil rights attorney, first woman appointed to U.S. Civil Rights Commission By Gloria S. Ross For St. Louis Public Radio
Photo by Wiley Price
As a young civil rights attorney for the local NAACP, Frankie Freeman carefully monitored the integration of Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas.
It took the elite Screaming Eagles of the U.S. Army’s 101st Airborne Division, under orders from President Dwight D. Eisenhower, to get nine black children into the formerly all-white school. They were the first in the South to test Brown v. Board of Education, the 1954 U.S. Supreme Court
decision outlawing school segregation. After a tumultuous year, the NAACP decided that the “Little Rock Nine” needed to attend summer school, but there would be no troops to protect them. They would need to leave their racially charged city. Freeman was asked to provide a “safe house” for three of the nine. She took two
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Strikers speak out on MLK Day Mediation brings movement toward resolution as strike continues at Christian Care Home By Sandra Jordan Of The St. Louis American
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Marching for MLK in STL Marchers walked west on Market Street in downtown St. Louis on Monday, January 15 to commemorate the national holiday to honor Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. In the civic ceremony at the Old Courthouse, Public Safety Director Jimmie Edwards (holding the MLK banner with Police Chief John Hayden) said the black community is responsible for addressing black-on-black violence.
Myrtle Hilliard Davis Comprehensive Health Centers organized a day of community service on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, starting from its office on Martin Luther King Drive.
By Jessica Karins For The St. Louis American On a cold and snowy Martin Luther King Jr. Day, volunteers gathered at Myrtle Hilliard Davis Comprehensive Health Centers to brave the weather and distribute care packages to those in need. They began at an appropriate location – the health center’s office on Martin Luther King Drive. The street, named after the civil rights icon in 1972, is See MLK, A8
BUSINESS
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Trump’s racist remarks condemned
MLK Day on MLK Drive Volunteers mark national holiday with community service
Carrying iconic signs reminiscent of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s march with Memphis sanitation workers 50 years ago, striking workers from n “We asked what Christian Care Home would they do with in Ferguson joined the workers that the MLK Day march are there since they on January 15 as their labor dispute entered its sent us a letter that seventh week. we are permanently The strikers joined replaced? They told the march to invoke Dr. us they would let us King’s economic justice legacy and to demand know.” dignity and respect by using signs proclaiming – Brenda Davis, SEIU “I Am A Woman,” “I Am A Man,” “Union Justice Now!” and “I Am A Striking Worker,” and King’s historic Poor People’s Campaign. Brenda Davis, shop steward on the picket line, said mediation requested by the nursing home on
New immigration policies by U.S. called ‘a racial purge’ By Sophie Hurwitz For The St. Louis American In a quickly-organized phone conference on Thursday, January 12, leaders from several immigrant and civil rights organizations came together to decry President Trump’s recent remarks, in which he referred to Haiti and African countries as “shithole countries” during a meeting with U.S. senators, according to the Washington Post. The civil rights leaders said that, in light of these See TRUMP, A8
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HEALTH
SPORTS
Express Scripts funds scholars at UMSL
Journey to a better health is a family affair
The rise of the Titans
Partnership helps ‘deserving students to overcome financial barrers that impede access’
During her pregnancy Latoya Evans found out she had breast cancer. Shortly after they discovered their baby had a heart condition.
The Confluence Academy Titans are out front as a rising team in the metro area with some exciting players to watch.
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