Your Health Matters Double diabetes in adults, genetic testing and breast cancer, Vitamin E and obesity.
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CAC Audited JUNE 6 – 12, 2013
Vol. 84 No. 10 COMPLIMENTARY
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Post editor responds to black community Tony Messenger fields questions at NAACP town hall meeting
Jacque Land of 100 Black Men and St. Louis American columnist Jamala Rogers listened as Tony Messenger, editor of the Post-Dispatch’s editorial page, responded to an audience member Thursday night at a Town Hall organized by the St. Louis NAACP at Shalom (City of Peace) in North County.
By Chris King For The St. Louis American On Thursday night the St. Louis NAACP and St. Louis Post-Dispatch partnered to give the AfricanAmerican community a chance to ask questions of Post leadership about the daily paper’s coverage decisions in a Town Hall held at Shalom (City of Peace) in North County. A longer list of editors was advertised, though the only editor present was Tony Messenger, who
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Wash U has highest gain in black freshmen Enrolls 104 black freshmen in 2012, up from 83 By Rebecca S. Rivas Of The St. Louis American Ranking above all of the nation’s 30 most elite research universities, Washington University had the highest gain in enrollment of incoming AfricanAmerican freshman last fall, according to the Journal of Blacks in Higher Education’s 2012 annual survey. In fall 2012, the university had 104 black freshmen, up from 83 a year ago. That’s a 25.3 percent gain. “We are proud of the hard work that we are doing in encouraging and supporting diversity on campus,” said Adrienne D. Davis, vice provost at
Balloon baby Makenzie Bear, 2, played with a balloon at the North Sarah Community Health Fair held Saturday afternoon at the intersection of North Sarah Avenue and West Belle Place.
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Ford Elementary School students Alexander Leonard, Janay Gilmore, Jamyra Holmes and Chenelle White look over their STEM work on their new laptops with Wash U freshman tutor Matt McEldff.
Partnership teaches STEM to students Photo by Wiley Price
McKee addresses 5th Ward Police chief joins developer in answering community questions By Rebecca S. Rivas Of The St. Louis American While North St. Louis residents threw softball questions to developer Paul McKee Jr. about the Northside redevelopment project, they sweated Police Chief Sam Dotson
on racial profiling and aggressive police action at a 5th Ward community meeting held Tuesday night. It was one of the first times McKee had updated residents at a public meeting since April when the Missouri Supreme Court ruled in favor of the project’s $390 million in
The American, public schools and Wash U. collaborate on program By Bridjes O’Neil Of The St. Louis American
tax increment financing (TIF), which he plans to use to transform 1,500 acres of North St. Louis. “Our team and the team at City Hall are literally meeting every 10 days now,” McKee
The St. Louis American recently concluded its school-year-long STEM Newspaper In Education program, which focused on Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) education and literacy in area public schools. During the 2012-13 academic school year, The American printed and delivered newspapers free of charge every week to more than 5,100 students in
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