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September 24, 2025
Parents, alumni, and educators say shuttering schools adds trauma to Black neighborhoods already struggling with displacement.
Kim Gardner, St. Louis, theGrio.com
October 24, 2024
Kim Gardner resigned under fire last year after being elected the city’s first Black circuit attorney in 2016.
Marcellus Williams executed, theGrio.com
August 28, 2024
Marcellus Williams, 55, is scheduled to be executed on Sept. 24 for the 1998 stabbing death of Lisha Gayle in…
Marcellus Williams executed, theGrio.com
August 23, 2024
Marcellus Williams would have been sentenced to life in prison without parole on Thursday. Instead, his Sept. 24 execution date…
August 8, 2024
Nelly's lawyer called what the officer found “alleged ecstasy” and said the lawman did not have probable cause to justify…
Paris Williams
April 19, 2023
A 9-year-old St. Louis girl is paying it forward in the best way by helping the most vulnerable in her…
February 17, 2023
Lawmakers are pushing for restitution legislation to help Black men such as Lamar Johnson, now free after serving 28 years…
February 10, 2023
Missouri Legislative Black Caucus members accused the state's House Republican leaders of racism for cutting off a House floor speech…
January 18, 2023
A red carpet, welcome signs, cheers and high fives welcomed students back Tuesday at Central Visual Arts and Performing Arts…
January 3, 2023
Unless Missouri Gov. Mike Parson grants clemency, McLaughlin will become the first transgender woman executed in the U.S.
jail prison thegrio.com
January 1, 2023
Judge Timothy Boyer on Friday, Dec. 30 overturned Lamont Cambell's conviction in the death of Lenny Gregory III.
December 12, 2022
Lamar Johnson was convicted in 1995 of fatally shooting 25-year-old Marcus Boyd over a $40 drug debt.
Tishaura O. Jones
December 9, 2022
St. Louis Mayor Tishaura Jones is appointing a reparations commission that will “recommend a proposal to begin repairing the harms…
Kim Gardner
December 9, 2022
Missouri's attorney general asked a judge on Thursday to sanction St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner, accusing her of concealing…
December 8, 2022
Three former St. Louis aldermen, including the longtime board president, will go to prison for accepting bribes from a businessman.
November 29, 2022
The former north St. Louis home of Ethel Hedgeman Lyle, principal founder of the AKA sorority, will be revitalized to…
November 18, 2022
The St. Louis County Board of Police Commissioners honored two men for helping save a woman trapped in a waterlogged…
October 28, 2022
The 19-year-old gunman who forced his way into a St. Louis school and killed two people purchased the AR-15-style rifle from a…
October 26, 2022
A 19-year-old who killed a teacher and a 15-year-old girl at a St. Louis high school was armed with an…
October 24, 2022
A gunman broke into a St. Louis high school, fatally shooting a woman and a teenage girl and injuring six…