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CAC Audited JULY 6 – 12, 2017
Vol. 89 No. 16 COMPLIMENTARY
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Black teen files wrongful incarceration suit against St. Louis Destiny Payne says she was held 15 days without being charged for a crime By Rebecca Rivas Of The St. Louis American A 19-year-old AfricanAmerican woman filed a wrongful incarceration lawsuit
against the City of St. Louis and several of its public safety officials on Thursday, June 22. Destiny Payne, then 18, was hanging out with a group of friends on the Delmar Loop on
October 26, 2016 when things went awry. Her group saw a 20-year-old black man walking by, and her friends told Payne the man had “jumped their home girl.” Some members of
her group, most of whom were acquaintances, decided to jump him back, Payne told police. They punched and kicked the man, then ran off with his bag. Payne told the police when
they arrested her on October 27 that she did not do anything but watch the robbery, according to the police report. She cooperated with police and identified four people who
actually were involved in the robbery. On January 5, Payne was charged with seconddegree robbery and spent See PAYNE, A7
ESL race ‘pogrom’ remembered Region commemorated 100th anniversary of unparalleled racial terror By Kenya Vaughn Of The St. Louis American
Photo by Wiley Price
East St. Louis Mayor Emeka Jackson-Hicks and St. Louis Mayor Lyda Krewson led nearly 300 people on a march to the Eads Bridge from East St. Louis on Sunday, July 2, retracing the steps of African Americans who fled a massacre at the hands of whites in East St. Louis 100 years ago.
Most of America spent the weekend at cookouts, watching fireworks and celebrating the birth of our nation. The fact that people from across the region paid their respects as black people of East St. Louis n “I call it a ‘race mourned ancestors who experienced one of the bloodiest incidents of war’ because that’s racially motivated terrorism in U.S. what our father, history 100 years ago speaks to uncles and Aunt Dot the irony of the African-American referred to it as – experience. The event is commonly referred race war.” to as the East St. Louis Race Riots of 1917, though none of the – Dhati M. Kennedy speakers at a host of events over the course of three days that took place on both sides of the river to commemorate the centennial of the tragedy seemed to want to call it that. “I call it a ‘race war’ because that’s what our father, uncles and Aunt Dot referred to it as – race war,” said Dhati M. Kennedy, brother of St. Louis Ald. Terry Kennedy, at a panel discussion Saturday afternoon at Better Family Life. “People didn’t just
World-class cancer care comes to N. County Siteman Cancer Center opens location at Christian Hospital American staff Siteman Cancer Center began treating patients at Christian Hospital in north St. Louis County on July 1. Based at Barnes-Jewish Hospital and Washington University School of Medicine, the new location is Siteman’s fifth location in the St. Louis area. Siteman Cancer Center at Christian Hospital will offer the North County community convenient access to nationally recognized cancer care, including clinical trials evaluating innovative cancer therapies. It will serve residents in North St. Louis,
n “We look forward to continue serving the people of North St. Louis and Southern Illinois, including those who are medically underserved, and to offering patients even more treatment options.”
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January 7, 1957 – July 3, 2017
Hoosman Jr. killed in crash By Sandra Jordan Of The St. Louis American
– Rick Stevens, president of Christian Hospital
North St. Louis County, Southern Illinois and the region. Timothy J. Ebelein, MD, Siteman’s director, described Christian Hospital as a pillar of the North St. Louis commuSee CANCER, A6
Workers finish placing the sign on top of Siteman Cancer Center’s newest location, at Christian Hospital in north St. Louis County. Siteman officially started treating patients there on July 1.
Hubert H. Hoosman Jr
A visitation service will be held Sunday, July 9 from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. at Austin Layne Funeral Home, 7733 Natural Bridge Rd. in St. Louis (63121) for highly respected civic and business leader Hubert H. Hoosman Jr., who was killed in an early-morning head-on collision in Spanish Lake on Monday, July 3. An Omega Service takes See HOOSMAN, A7