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CAC Audited MAY 11 – 17, 2017
Vol. 89 No. 8 COMPLIMENTARY
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Mother of many
Shirley Harrold is the mother of 16 children.
Matriarch Shirley Harrold speaks on sharing life with 16 children and ‘about 62’ grandkids By Kenya Vaughn Of The St. Louis American “Hey, baby, get on in here,” Shirley Harrold told photojournalist Lawrence Bryant. She couldn’t see his camera or make out his face from behind her screen door, so she had mistaken him for one of her sons. “I’m so sorry,” Harrold said. “I thought you were one of my boys – there are just so
n “My greatest joy is getting them all together, seeing them and just knowing how God has blessed them.” – Shirley Harrold, mother of 16 and grandmother of “about 62”
many of them.” There are nine boys to be exact – and seven girls. Not
all of them could be there, but there were plenty of children and grandchildren bustling
through her home in Florissant on Saturday, May 6 awaiting the Harrold family’s big moment to honor their mother by talking about her for a Mother’s Day story. Mother’s Day is Sunday, May 14. The children played while the adults and young adults held several side conversations as they waited for people to arrive for the group photo. See MOTHER, A7 Photo by Lawrence Bryant
Dems fumble 28th Ward nomination
‘What does it mean to have this in Forest Park now?’
Party nominee doesn’t meet residency requirement, committee trying again
New City fifthgraders ponder the past and future of the Confederate Monument
By Rebecca Rivas Of The St. Louis American The race to fill Mayor Lyda Krewson’s spot on the Board Aldermen took some interesting turns this week. On May 6, the Democratic Committee of the 28th Ward selected Elise Miller Hoffman, president of the St. Louis Young Democrats, as their nominee in the upcoming special election. n The But on May special 9, Hoffman election announced to replace that she misinterpreted Lyda the city’s Krewson residency on the requirement Board of to run for Aldermen alderman and was “stepping will be down” as the held on Democratic Tuesday, candidate. “As a July 11. private citizen, I will continue to be an advocate for St. Louisans who are underserved by their government due to the color of their skin, housing status, income level, sexual orientation, gender or country of origin,” Hoffman said in a letter to the Democratic Central Committee. Art Perry, the 28th Ward Democratic committeeman, said that although Hoffman has lived in the city for seven of the last 10 years, she bounced around between St. Louis County and the city, “as young people do.” Most recently she See 28TH WARD, A6
BUSINESS
By Chris King Of The St. Louis American
Photo by Wiley Price
Stephanie Teachout’s fifth grade class at New City School visited the Confederate Monument in Forest Park on Friday, May 5 to learn about its past and imagine its future.
SPORTS
Children were beginning to climb up on the Confederate Monument in Forest Park to see what was carved on it. Their teacher and a guest lecturer encouraged them to take a closer look, and its dimensions are such that a fifth grader can climb on it. “Should we not stand on it?” one boy asked. “It is a monument.” Stephanie Teachout, their fifth grade teacher at New City School, brought the n “This feels fresh, class to the park to learn about exactly what kind important and at of monument it is. They the vanguard. It’s were taught by David teaching the skills Cunningham, a sociology professor at Washington our kids need University and New to know. This is City parent, and Jeanette why I came to St. Freiberg, Cunningham’s Louis.” research assistant, a sophomore at WUSTL – Alexis Wright, studying sociology and New City School Latin America. They also were guided to come up with ideas for what to do with this problematic monument, which glorifies those who died for the Confederacy – who died defending race-based chattel slavery in the United States. The student’s ideas for the monument – which now stands, without context, in the city’s crown public jewel, Forest Park, on a public road called “Confederate Drive” – would include (among less radical notions) dumping it in the Mississippi River and destroying it to build a more positive work of art from its elements. But the adults did call the children down from standing and crawling on the monument. Once the children reported on what they found looking closely at the monument – including “lots of See STATUE, A6
LIVING IT
$10 minimum wage takes effect in STL
‘This rodeo is lit’
Creating a history of diversity and inclusion
Any workers who find employers non-compliant should contact the city.
Urban cowboys prove to be crowd pleasers at inaugural St. Louis Black Rodeo.
Local institution earns pioneering honors from American Alliance of Museums
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