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CAC Audited OCTOBER 6 – 12, 2016
Vol. 88 No. 26 COMPLIMENTARY
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Millennials prepare for Nov. 8 election
n “When we do turn out and vote, when we do get behind a candidate that actually represents the people and has our interests at hand,” T-Dubb-O said, “if we put them in office we can hold them accountable.”
Harris-Stowe students urge peers to vote: ‘It’s an obligation’ By Rebecca Rivas Of The St. Louis American Hip-hop artist T-Dubb-O stood on the frontlines of Ferguson fighting for equity. After Ferguson erupted, he was among a group of St. Louis millennials invited to the White House by President Obama to advise him and his staff on
how to address the issue. Now his issue is the upcoming November 8 general election. The deadline to register to vote is October 12. As a founding member of Hands Up United, he recently worked with other organizations to train millennials from around the country on how to register
voters, talk to the media and understand complex voter ID laws in their states. “It’s extremely important for us to provide our voices, because the older generations are not going through what we’re going through,” said T-Dubb-O, a freshman at Harris-Stowe State
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More than $500K in scholarships Annual Salute to Excellence in Education celebrates students, teachers By Kenya Vaughn Of The St. Louis American
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Riverview Gardens School Board chair Lynn Beckwith, Superintendent Scott Spurgeon and Associate Principal Traci Nave applauded Riverview Gardens High School Principal Darius Kirk for the school being honored as 2016 Monsanto School of Excellence at the St. Louis American Foundation’s 29th annual Salute to Excellence in Education Scholarship and Awards Gala at America’s Center on Saturday, October 1.
“Don’t you let anybody tell you that black people don’t care about education,” said Carol Daniel, mistress of ceremonies for the St. Louis American Foundation’s 29th annual Salute to Excellence in Education Scholarship and Awards Gala at America’s Center n “Since 1994, the on Saturday, October 1. St. Louis American She knew that the more Foundation, than 1,200 Salute guests knew better, but was so together with its education partners, compelled by the success story of 2016 Monsanto has fostered over School of Excellence $4.5 million in recipient Riverview Gardens High School scholarships and community grants.” that she felt the need to encourage them to remind others. – Donald M. Suggs More than $500,000 in scholarships was awarded to students. Scholarships endowed in the name of American Publisher Donald M. Suggs – from undergraduate to post-graduate studies – were presented by University Missouri-Columbia (the foundation’s first scholarship partner), Southeast Missouri State University, Missouri State University, Harris-Stowe State University, , St. Louis Community College, Webster University, Maryville University and (the foundation’s newest scholarship partner) Fontbonne University. The St. Louis American Foundation’s total See SALUTE, A6
Sisters in need – and hope
Gloria Taylor, cofounder and CEO of Community Women Against Hardship, poses with two sisters who have benefitted from the non-profit’s services, Candace Henderson and Crystal Henderson. Through October 21, CWAH is accepting nominations for people needing help through its 2016 People Against Poverty campaign.
Nominations for CWAH People Against Poverty Campaign due by Oct. 31 By Gwen Swan For The St. Louis American Chaos theory holds that in nature there exist fractals: complex, repeating and never-ending patterns in every dynamic system – trees, rivers, hurricanes, the human race – that speak to an underlying connectivity and order to all things. Perhaps those patterns explain the similarity in the events in the lives of two beautiful sisters, Candace
Henderson and Crystal Henderson. In 2011, Candace was laid off from her job as a medical assistant in Cardiac Pulmonary when St. Louis Connect Care closed down. The mother of four was unable to find work and, instead, found herself frustrated, angry, in financial distress and dependent on unemployment checks. Then the checks ran out. See SISTERS, A6 Photo by Wiley Price