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CAC Audited JUNE 29 – JULY 5, 2017
Vol. 89 No. 15 COMPLIMENTARY
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Black officer shot by white officer By Rebecca Rivas Of The St. Louis American
Friendly fire injury at crime scene is under investigation
Why would a white St. Louis police officer fear for his safety when the “threat,” a 38-year-old black man, was already in the care of his two fellow officers? That’s the question that
continues to anger community leaders and police officers after a white officer shot a black off-duty officer who came to assist at a crime scene that unfolded right outside his
front steps on June 21. “Take the fact that he’s an officer out of the entire question,” said state Rep. Bruce Franks Jr. who knows the black officer through his
work to strengthen police and community relations. “We have a black man with a gun who is engaged in conversation with two officers. Those officers are lax; they
don’t have their guns drawn. He’s not pointing a gun. We live in Missouri, which is an open-carry state. And you fear for your life? He doesn’t even know you are there.”
On June 21 at about 10:30 p.m., the black St. Louis city police officer was relaxing with his family in his North St. Louis city home when he heard “commotion” nearby and went outside to scope it out with his departmentSee SHOT, A7
The deal is done Missouri Civil War Museum will take down Confederate Monument by Friday By Chris King Of The St. Louis American
Photo by Wiley Price
Cleaning up the neighborhood Volunteers cleaned up the corner of Montgomery and Garrison streets on Saturday, June 24 as part of Clean Sweep: JVL, a partnership between Habitat for Humanity St. Louis, Better Family Life, Inc., St. Alphonsus Liguori “Rock” Church, Leonard Memorial Church, The Tabernacle Church, Thessalonian Church, Torchbearers 2, the City of St. Louis, the JVL Neighborhood Association, area businesses and families in the neighborhoods. Clean-Sweep: Hamilton Heights / Wells-Goodfellow is planned for Saturday, July 29. Registration begins at 7:30 a.m. at the Better Family Life Cultural Center, 5415 Page Blvd. For more information, call (314) 391-8200.
‘Our resolve must be to unite and fight’ U.S. Rep. Maxine Waters calls for resistance to Trump at County NAACP Freedom Fund Dinner By Sandra Jordan Of The St. Louis American U.S. Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) filled the Ritz Carlton banquet hall on Thursday, June 22 for the 81st annual St. Louis County NAACP Freedom Fund Leadership Dinner. Waters, a Kinloch native, received a Margaret Bush Wilson Lifetime Achievement Award, along with former Missouri Governor Bob Holden. John Gaskin, III, Freedom Fund dinner chair, said that Waters has led the way in “opposing the oppressive and the discriminatory practices and language of both candidate and
More than a year and a half after the Missouri Civil War Museum offered to take the City of St. Louis’ Confederate Monument off its hands, the deal is finally done. By n Only in Friday, June 30, the attempting to museum will remove resolve that suit the monument from Forest Park and put it out of court, in storage – with the Krewson said, museum, not the city, did the Missouri paying for its removal Civil War and storage. On Monday, Museum agree June 25, St. Louis to pay for the Mayor Lyda Krewson removal of the announced this monument. resolution to a suit the museum had filed against the city, in a press release followed by a press conference. At the press conference, Krewson said she still believes that the city owns the monument, which was the subject of the legal dispute, but it will become the See MONUMENT, A7
American honored for excellence Named nation’s top black newspaper sixth straight year
n “If Jeff Sessions wants to get tough on crime, he should start right in the White House.” – U.S. Rep. Maxine Waters
By Kenya Vaughn Of The St. Louis American
President Donald J. Trump.” Gaskin, who also serves on the NAACP’s National Board of Directors, said her life’s work speaks directly to the event theme, “Rise Together.” During her rousing keynote remarks,
(NATIONAL HARBOR, MD) – “The NNPA Foundation Merit Awards reflect and celebrate black excellence,” said Al McFarlane, chair of the NNPA Foundation and publisher of Minneapolis’ Insight News as he opened the 2017 National Newspaper Publishers Annual Merit Awards on Thursday, June 22. For the sixth year in a row, The St. Louis American was awarded the highly coveted Russwurm/Sengstacke Award for General
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U.S. Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) preached to her hometown choir on Thursday, June 22 as the keynote speaker and Margaret Bush Wilson Lifetime Achiever honoree at the 81st annual St. Louis County Freedom Fund Leadership Dinner, held at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Clayton.
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