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The Annie Malone Parade returns on Sunday, proceeds continue to help children in need.
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CAC Audited MAY 18 – 24, 2017
Vol. 89 No. 9 COMPLIMENTARY
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Moms bailed out of jail for Mother’s Day #BeyondBail campaign continues community support effort By Jenny Simeone-Casas Of St. Louis Public Radio Photo courtesy of ArchCity Defenders
Activists and organizers from the St. Louis Action Council, Arch City Defenders and Decarcerate St. Louis raised money to post bond to bail out mothers being held in St. Louis for inability to post bond.
Surrounded by a dozen or so protesters, Kennard Williams stood outside of St. Louis City Hall on Thursday, May 11 staring skeptically at city officials who were locking the gates to the building’s front doors. The protest, planned by Williams and others,
called on Mayor Lyda Krewson to close the city’s Medium Security Institution, also known as the Workhouse. It was part of a larger challenge to the city’s cash bond system from St. Louis activists with an unlikely partner in mind — Mother’s Day. #BlackMamaBailoutSTL is the local arm of a national effort to get moms out of jail
who would otherwise be missing Mother’s Day with their children because they can’t afford to post bail. The fundraising effort was coordinated by three organizations, the St. Louis Action Council, Arch City Defenders, and Decarcerate St. Louis. “Outside of getting mothers out of jail,
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Cheyenne is going to Paraguay Quest Scholarship Fund brings study-abroad opportunities to St. Louis students By Sophie Hurwitz For The St. Louis American
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Hazelwood students suspended for protest Hazelwood West honor student Jeremie Osaghae-Nosa, a senior, and junior class president Kyra Pearson wore their cords for graduation while protesting in front of the school on Wednesday, May 17 in support of teachers in the district. About two dozen students protested suspensions of nearly 200 classmates after they walked out of school in support of teachers this week. The ACLU of Missouri said it is “actively preparing legal options if the district continues to jeopardize the students’ futures.”
The benefits of study-abroad programs are well known – foreign language skills, career opportunities, cultural competency, a greater likelihood of attending college, and greater self-confidence can all n “I want to see how be gained simply by spending or less living and going my host family lives. atoyear school in a foreign country. And the food. I’m For most low-income excited about the students in St. Louis, however, study abroad food.” remains an inaccessible dream, and those – Cheyenne Hawkins opportunities that can be gained by learning and living in a foreign country remain just faraway ideas instead of tangible possibilities. The recently established Quest Scholarship Fund at the St. Louis Community Foundation aims to change that. The fund will subsidize 50 percent of the expenses for highachieving low-income students to travel abroad, while the AFS-USA Faces of America Program will provide the See CHEYENNE, A7
Chief justice owns muni court mess Missouri Supreme Court Chief Justice Patricia Breckenridge, Forward Through Ferguson’s David Dwight and Jonathan Smith, former chief of the Special Litigation Section of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, served on a panel when the National Consortium on Racial and Ethnic Fairness in the Courts met in St. Louis on Tuesday, May 16.
Supreme Court rules on SB5, raising ceiling county munis can collect in fines By Rebecca Rivas Of The St. Louis American When Jonathan Smith was scouring through records of Ferguson’s police department and municipal court, he learned how the court and police had “destroyed the lives of thousands of African-American residents,” he said at the National Consortium on Racial and Ethnic Fairness in the Courts on Tuesday, May 16. See COURT, A6
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