By William Freivogel >> Sixty-one years ago, Percy Green began a hunger strike in front of the office of then-St. Louis Treasurer John H. “Jack” Dwyer to demand the city remove tax money from Jefferson Bank, which had no Black employees. Green, who had already been branded a “habitual troublemaker” by the St. Louis Globe-Democrat
Linda Lockhart died May 4 after a long career in Midwest newsrooms from St. Louis to Madison and Milwaukee. Last summer, on the 10th anniversary of the Ferguson uprising, she reflected on what it was like to grow up as an African-American in St. Louis. By Linda Lockhart >> Linda Lockhart is a St. Louis
By Don Corrigan >> In an age of digital media, podcasts and streaming, the good-old-days of community radio seem to be at an end – not with a bang or even a whimper. It’s more about lawyers conversing in bankruptcy court. In St. Louis, KDHX is deep in the red and close to pulling the
By Elizabeth Tharakan >> The Marshall Project opened a local nonprofit newsroom in St. Louis to support local media with investigative and data journalism about the criminal justice system. St. Louis is the third city in the New York-based Marshall Project’s local network. The other two are Clevaland and Jackson, Mississippi. “This newsroom is several
By Terry Ganey >> An important cog in the news-making machinery of St. Louis has quietly slipped out of service with the departure of veteran Associated Press Correspondent Jim Salter. For 31 years, Salter supplied the global wire service with a steady diet of hard news, sports and features from eastern Missouri. In 2011 he
