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CAC Audited NOVEMBER 23 – 29, 2017
Vol. 89 No. 35 COMPLIMENTARY
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Police under investigation for alleged civil rights violations A St. Louis police officer looked for the next target for his pepper spray during the policing of a protest in downtown St. Louis on September 15, the day the notguilty verdict was handed down in the first-degree murder bench trial of former police officer Jason Stockley.
U.S. Attorney Jeff Jensen and FBI St. Louis promise ‘fair, thorough and impartial’ review By Chris King Of The St. Louis American The St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department is under federal investigation for potential civil rights violations in its handling of protests following the notguilty verdict in the first-degree murder bench trial of former police officer Jason Stockley. Jeff Jensen, U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Missouri, told The St. Louis American on Monday, November 20 that his office, the U.S. Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division and the FBI St. Louis
Division have opened the investigation, which had been requested by U.S. Rep. Wm. Lacy Clay (D-St. Louis) and the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund (LDF). Jensen said the FBI St. Louis Division would collect evidence relevant to the accusations made by Clay, the LDF, the ACLU of Missouri and others, and “ensure there is a fair, thorough and impartial investigation.” Since it’s an ongoing investigation, Jensen declined
See POLICE, A6
Photo by Lawrence Bryant
Normandy, Riverview could upgrade in accreditation St. Louis, Ferg-Flor APR scores dip By Ryan Delaney and Brent Jones Of St. Louis Public Radio
Photo by Wiley Price
Goodbye, Sister Ebo A family member of Sister Mary Antona Ebo kissed her goodbye after her homegoing service on Monday, November 20 at St. Alphonsus Liguori “Rock” Church. One of the legendary Sisters of Selma, she died Saturday, November 11 at age 93.
2017 BuSineSS SALute
Humility is the keynote at Business Salute ‘It takes a team to build a company,’ says Entrepreneur of the Year Gloria Carter-Hicks By Chris King Of The St. Louis American
2017 Entrepreneur of the Year Gloria CarterHicks with Kathy Osborn, executive director of the Regional Business Council, at the 2017 Salute to Excellence in Business, held Friday, November 17 at Four Seasons Hotel St. Louis.
Humility was the dominant theme of the 2017 Salute to Excellence in Business, presented by the St. Louis American Foundation, the St. Louis Regional Chamber, and the Urban League of Metropolitan St. Louis at Four Seasons Hotel St. Louis on Friday, November 17. “I’m just a support person,” said 2017 Non-Profit Executive of the Year Halbert Sullivan, namechecking the non-profit business he founded and leads, Fathers’ Support Center. “It takes a team to build a company,” said 2017 Entrepreneur of the Year Gloria Carter-Hicks, founder, president and CEO of Hicks-Carter-Hicks. “My management style is to empower people and to give them the tools to be the best at what they do,” said 2017 Corporate Executive of the Year Melva Pete, vice president of human resources at SAK
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n State education officials aren’t factoring in high school algebra and English yearend exams because of a problem with the testing vendor.
Normandy schools superintendent Charles Pearson is hopeful his district will shed the status of Missouri’s only unaccredited school district after landing in the provisionally accredited range for the second straight year in the Annual Performance Report (APR) published Wednesday, November 15 by the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education. “It’s a big deal,” Pearson told St. Louis Public Radio. Normandy needed to
See SCORES, A7
‘Policy after Protest: Is it enough?’ No, panelists at Harris-Stowe forum conclude By Jessica Karins For The St. Louis American At a panel event at Harris-Stowe State University on Wednesday, November 15, panelists were asked not what St. Louis could do to address police violence and racism, but whether government policy could create effective change at all. That question was reflected in the title of the event: “Policy after Protest: Is it enough?” The panel was in many ways a response to the earlier Harris-Stowe event “Protest to Policy.” One of the panelists at the previous event was Mayor Lyda Krewson, and the forum was disrupted by
See PROTEST, A7