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Vol. 85 No. 15 COMPLIMENTARY
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Bishop Vinton Anderson passes Bishop Vinton Randolph Anderson greeted Senator Barack Obama when Obama attended an African Methodist Episcopal Church conference at the America’s Center in St. Louis on July 5, 2008 while campaigning for president.
92nd bishop of AME Church leaves lasting legacy of service
n “His motto as a pastor was, ‘Love the people you serve.’”
By Marissa Price For The St. Louis American
Photo by Wiley Price
Mavis Thompson faces challenge
Bishop Vinton Randolph Anderson, community leader and 92nd bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, passed away peacefully in his sleep on Wednesday, July 9, 2014, just two days shy of what would have been his 87th birthday. Bishop Anderson had been ailing recently, but his death came as tremendous shock to the many people whose lives he touched throughout the years, said Jackie DuPont-Walker, his former executive aid and current International
Moving on up
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KIPP Victory starts this fall in SLPS with 200 K-4 students
By Chris King Of The St. Louis American
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Social Action officer for the AME Church. “My life has not been the same since getting to work with him,” said DuPont-Walker. “All of the people whose lives he touched have stories
KIPP school opens in North St. Louis
Incumbent license collector defends seat in Aug. 5 primary License Collector Mavis T. Thompson, who was appointed to the position by Gov. Jay Nixon last October when Michael McMillan resigned to take leadership of the Urban League of Metropolitan St. Louis, face a challenge in the August 5 Democratic primary. As a competent n “Whether or incumbent in a citywide seat that is typically treated as not you own a fiefdom in local politics, or operate a she faces a highly unusual business, the primary challenge, not only from within her own party, money that but from within her own we collect North St. Louis base. benefits the Her challenger, general public Alderman Jeffrey Boyd, in services was endorsed (over the Democratic incumbent) provided by Mayor Francis Slay through before filing even opened. general Thompson subsequently revenue.” was endorsed by both members of the African– License American majority on the Collector Mavis city’s Board of Estimate Thompson & Apportionment, Comptroller Darlene Green and aldermanic President Lewis Reed – in addition to Treasurer Tishaura Jones, who defeated Boyd to win her seat. Thompson has a fascinating professional background. With graduate degrees in both nursing
– Vivienne Anderson
By Bridjes O’Neil Of The St. Louis American
Photo by Wiley Price
Jaylan Scott, 9, enjoyed some rock climbing when Fair St. Louis was held in Forest Park for the first time on July 4.
On Friday, North St. Louis’ West End neighborhood celebrated the fall re-opening of the once-vacant Mitchell Elementary School, at 955 Arcade Ave., with a ribbon-cutting n “Now, ceremony. Mitchell is the we’ll be able new home of KIPP to make Victory Academy sure that our Elementary School, kids never thanks to a unique partnership between experience St. Louis Public educational Schools and the inequity national KIPP charter in the first school organization. Through the place.” partnership, the charter school – Tiara Abu gained free access to the district-owned building, and the test scores of KIPP students will be added to SLPS’s tally. KIPP Victory will begin with a founding class of 200 kindergarten and first-grade students, adding one grade a year through the fourth grade. The partnership was made possible through the “visionary leadership” of SLPS Superintendent Kelvin Adams and Rick Sullivan, head of the SLPS Special Administrative Board, said KIPP St. Louis Executive Director Kelly Garrett.
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