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CAC Audited SEPTEMBER 7 – 13, 2017
Vol. 89 No. 25
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HuffPost teams with American to listen to STL News organization launches national listening here on Sept. 12 By Chris King Of The St. Louis American
“By partnering with local news organizations who are on the ground in places all around the country, we can re-start this conversation about our identity.”
HuffPost is coming to St. Louis – and 24 other American cities – in a bus to listen to America, and it’s coming to St. Louis first. The national news organization’s chartered bus will launch its national listening tour in St. Louis on Tuesday, September 12, in partnership with The St. Louis American. The tour will get kicked off with a 10:30 a.m. launch event at Kiener Plaza in downtown St. Louis. Speakers will include leadership from HuffPost (Lydia Polgreen, editor in chief) and The American (Donald
– Lydia Polgreen, HuffPost editor-inchief
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Photo by Damon Dahlen/HuffPost
‘United we bargain’
COMPLIMENTARY
Why and how clergy should stand with protestors Rev. Renita Marie Lamkin Green For The St. Louis American It was 6:30 the other morning when a message came to my inbox. “What’s going on with clergy and frontliners? I’m hearing some disturbing news about a counterprotest against the frontliners. I thought we were in this together, but this will look goofy and crazy.” Truth. Clergy, against the people? I cannot fathom the logic of this. During the Ferguson uprising, there was constant tension between clergy and protestors. Rev. Tommie Pierson was among the first who opened the doors of the church for protestors – I took refuge in that space one night after terror was unleashed. There were others whose constant
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“United we bargain, divided we beg,” announced a union protestor at the Show Me 15 rally held before the start of the 2017 Labor Day Parade in downtown St. Louis on Monday, September 4. Labor activism is up in Missouri since the Republicandominated legislature and Republican Governor Eric Greitens enacted legislation for so-called Right to Work policy, which diminishes labor funding and union participation, and for stopping cities like St. Louis from passing higher standards for the minimum wage than the state establishes.
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Photo by Wiley Price
Jennings High School counselor Rhonda Key talked with students Deanna Obrebey and Asha Amerson at the school on Wednesday, September 6.
‘We’ve taken away the excuses’ Removing obstacles to achievement at Jennings Senior High School Photo by Wiley Price
Kyrnn Peoples, a junior at Jennings Senior High School, knows that he is going to college because the school district has been planting that seed in him for 30th a long time. “Man, I feel like they’ve been talking about it ever since I’ve been at Jennings, which was since the first grade,” Peoples said. “Every day they talk about college.” His older brother was part of the history-making senior class that just graduated in the spring, where 160 students received diplomas — a 97 percent
June 29, 1938 – AuguSt 29, 2017
Carl Bruce, looking through the lens of life Services Saturday for beloved community photographer American staff Carl J. Bruce passed away on August 29, 2017 after a valiant battle with cancer wherein he received his final healing. Carl J. Bruce was born June 29, 1938 in St. Louis to Carl and Ella (Zimmerman) Bruce; both preceded him in
death, along with siblings Richard Bruce, of Killeen, Texas and Yvette Collins. Carl attended Simmons and Marshall elementary schools and Hadley Technical High School in the St. Louis Public Schools system. As a youth, Carl attended Antioch Baptist
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By Rebecca Rivas Of The St. Louis American
Carl Bruce
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