Missouri

Education Featured

Missouri school district reinstates spanking

A school district in southwestern Missouri decided to bring back spanking as a form of discipline for students — if

Associated Press / August 29, 2022

Featured Crime

Three cop groups file lawsuit to prevent civilian oversight of police conduct

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Eight years after Michael Brown’s death pushed the St. Louis region front and center into the national debate

Associated Press / August 25, 2022

Living News Culture Watch Featured

Missouri pastor apologizes after calling church ‘poor, broke, busted’ in viral sermon

A Missouri pastor has issued an apology for calling his congregation “’poor, broke, busted” during a sermon that has gone

TheGrio Staff / August 18, 2022

Politics Featured

Kansas City mayor sues Missouri over law requiring increase in police funding

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas sued the state of Missouri on Wednesday over a new

Associated Press / August 18, 2022

Black History Featured

Missouri residents ask again to rename Old Slave Road

With one of its previous opponents gone and the same sentiment among some determined Wildwood, Missouri residents — that they

TheGrio Staff / August 12, 2022

News Featured

Racism led Missouri water park to cancel son’s birthday pool party, family says

LEE’S SUMMIT, Mo. (AP) — A Black family says racism prompted officials at a suburban Kansas City water park to

Associated Press / August 10, 2022

Black History Health Featured

Nurses group sues to stop small clinic from using name of now-defunct, but famous, Black hospital 

Homer G. Phillips Hospital was once a treasure of Black life in St. Louis, a five-story, 600-bed facility that served

TheGrio Staff / July 20, 2022