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Woke COGIC “As COGIC holds its 110th Annual International Holy Convocation during a time of outrage and grief, we are compelled to work in the interest of justice,” Church of God In Christ Presiding Bishop Charles E. Blake Sr. read at the steps of St. Louis City Hall on the afternoon of Friday, November 10.
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The leadership body of The Church of God In Christ surrounded Presiding Bishop Charles E. Blake Sr. on the steps of St. Louis City Hall on Friday, November 10 during a press conference that followed a meeting with Mayor Lyda Krewson. They met to address the verdict in the Jason Stockley case, subsequent unrest and demands made by protestors, which GOGIC endorsed.
‘We have come to lift our voice for justice and equity’ By Kenya Vaughn Of The St. Louis American
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While church members from around the world were gathered at America’s Center, Blake and the leadership body of COGIC – which has more than 6.5 million members – held a press conference after a brief meeting with Mayor Lyda Krewson. They met in response to weeks of unrest following the not-guilty verdict in the Jason Stockley trial for the 2011 fatal shooting
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Sister Ebo passes at 93 Legendary ‘Sister of Selma’ also bore witness at Ferguson By Gloria Ross For St. Louis Public Radio Sister Mary Antona Ebo, one of Martin Luther King Jr.’s most reluctant but eventually most powerful converts to the Civil Rights Movement, died Saturday, November 11. She was 93. Sister Ebo, who had previously suffered strokes, entered hospice last week. When King called on the nation’s religious leaders to join the 1965 Selma to Montgomery voting rights march, Sister Ebo was a Franciscan Sisters of Mary nun in St. Louis. She was aware that hundreds of
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Sister Mary Antona Ebo
earlier marchers had been beaten bloody by Alabama state troopers and one, a young, white American Unitarian Universalist minister named Rev. James Reeb, had died of his injuries. But she answered the call. “If they would beat a white minister to death on the streets of Selma, what are they going to do when I show up?” Sister Ebo told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch in 2015, the 50th anniversary of the march.
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ArchCity Defenders sues to close Workhouse Claims violations of the First, Eighth and Fourteenth amendments By Jessica Karins For The St. Louis American
n “They will leave you for dead at the Workhouse.”
The St. Louis legal advocacy organization ArchCity Defenders has filed a lawsuit against the city’s Medium Security Institution, also known as the Workhouse. They hope to obtain a ruling that will close the institution, widely criticized by protestors and political activists as inhumane. At a press conference on Monday, November 13 at Christ Church Cathedral, ArchCity lawyers and two of their plaintiffs spoke about conditions at the Workhouse which led the organization to regard detention there as cruel and unusual punishment and,
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as such, unconstitutional. “On any given day, detainees in the jail must endure infestations of rats, snakes, cockroaches, and other insects; extreme temperatures ranging from
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Suggs accepts Jefferson Award American publisher calls for action to address racial inequality By Chris King Of The St. Louis American
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Liturgical dancers evoke praise and worship on Sunday, November 12 during the 110th Annual International Holy Convocation of the Church of God in Christ, held in St. Louis.
Donald M. Suggs, publisher and executive editor of The St. Louis American, was faced with a dilemma when the Missouri Historical Society offered him its 2017 Thomas Jefferson Award. It’s the highest honor bestowed by the society that runs one of his favorite local institutions, the
Missouri History Museum, and it recognizes those who “have played a crucial role in the betterment of our community,” which is certainly a role he strives to fulfill with this newspaper, the St. Louis American Foundation, and his extensive board commitments. It’s also named after a white supremacist who owned slaves and sired children with a woman he
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