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The era of cruelty, chaos and lies is over Harris is historic vice president choice
Trump refuses to concede
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COMPLIMENTARY
Jones announces candidacy for mayor Cara Spencer, Lewis Reed also expected to run against incumbent Lyda Krewson
By Chris King Of The St. Louis America When Joe Biden and Kamala Harris were declared victors in Pennsylvania on Saturday, the state’s 20 electoral votes guaranteed them victory in the 2020 race for president and vice president. Harris will become the African American and first woman elected vice president – if the incumbent concedes. A graduate of Howard University with a law degree from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law, Harris is also the first graduate of an HBCU to be elected president or vice president. “She has stood on the shoulders of many before her, and now she gets to clear a path for many who will come after her,” Dr. Wayne Frederick, president of Howard, told MSNBC’s Joy Reid when Harris was chosen for vice president. At Howard, Harris served as a leader in the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. She is the first soror of AKA or any Black sorority (or any sorority) elected vice president or president.
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By Dana Rieck St. Louis City Treasurer Tishaura O. Jones stood, surrounded by supporters in Ivory Perry Park, in the neighborhood in which she grew up in and still lives today. She was there to talk about an election, but not the one last week, in which she won another term as treasurer with 77.58% of the city’s vote. Instead, she was there to announce her second candidacy to become St. Louis’ next mayor. “We can do better, I Tishaura O. know this because, despite Jones our problems, St. Louis is steeped in potential and ripe with opportunity,” she said. Anyone should be able to succeed in the city regardless of their identity, she said. “I want to build a city where each and every one of you feels welcome,” Jones said. “I know we can do that together, am I right? That’s why today, after many of you have See JONES, A6 Joe Biden and Kamala Harris celebrate winning the White House with supporters after Biden surpassed the 270 electoral vote mark.
Virtually Lost
King moves on to St. Louis County prosecuting attorney’s office
A St. Louis Public Schools teacher’s frustration with online education
By American staff
By Sylvester Brown Jr. Of The St. Louis American “I have never felt so unproductive in my entire career as a teacher.” Rashida Chapman, 36, a fifth grade math teacher at Pamoja Preparatory Academy is overwhelmed. The St. Public Schools teacher is experiencing the psychoRashida logical scars of educating Chapman children during a deadly pandemic. What’s most disconcerting, Chapman said, is trying to teach dozens of students at their homes as part of distance learning.
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American names Lockhart interim managing editor
Veterans Day 2020 Jean Player on Wednesday, visits the grave of her husband, Harold Player, with her son, Harold Jr. at Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery. Powers places a flag at the grave site for each of their four children and herself.
Linda Lockhart has been named interim managing editor of The St. Louis American. Lockhart, a St. Louis native, is a veteran journalist. She has worked at St. Louis Public Radio, the St. Louis Beacon, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and at newspapers in Minnesota and Wisconsin. She is a graduate of the University of MissouriColumbia›s School of Journalism and received her training as an editor from the Maynard Institute for Journalism Linda Education. Lockhart “We have embarked on a national search for our editor of the future and foresee bringing in someone who will transform the media organization we have been, but Linda is a perfect interim managing editor to maintain and even elevate our newsroom as we complete that search,” Publisher Donald M. See LOCKHART, A7