When the St. Louis Reparations Commission presented its first proposal last week to begin to address systemic racial discrimination against Black residents of the city, it drew on pioneering reparations programs in California and in the Chicago suburb of Evanston, which has already disbursed more than $1 million in funds since its inception. St. Louis…
The defamation case brought by two Georgia election workers against the far-right website “The Gateway Pundit” and its owner, St. Louisan Jim Hoft, has finally been set for trial in St. Louis Circuit Court. The trial is scheduled to begin on March 10, 2025, the court recently ordered. That means that more than three-and-one-quarter…
Allan Lengel, a veteran journalist who co-founded Deadline Detroit, was at the Detroit News in 1995 when six labor unions representing employees of his paper and the Detroit Free Press went on strike for 18 months. The striking workers traveled the country to get the word out about the conflict, sharing updates through press releases…
The part-time faculty at Columbia College Chicago, where I teach journalism, was on strike for seven weeks, protesting cost-cutting decisions that will result in fewer teaching opportunities for instructors. It was the longest adjunct strike in US history before a tentative deal was reached on Dec. 18. The student newspaper, the Columbia Chronicle, has been…
A Washington, D.C. jury’s decision that former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani must pay two former Georgia poll workers $148 million for lying about their role in the 2020 election leaves the stage nearly clear for the next act in the two women’s legal battles – to be played out in St. Louis against The…