Blades Elementary School Facebook page A Missouri area teacher is on administrative leave Monday after a disturbing question on a class assignment. “Set your price for a slave,” was the offensive question asked last week of fifth graders. According to a local CBS affiliate KMOV , a Mehlville School District teacher posed the question requiring…
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Black Entrepreneur Makes History as the First to Open a Juice Bar Inside Whole Foods
Chris Goode, owner and CEO of Ruby Jean’s Juicery, has opened his newest location inside a Whole Foods store in Kansas City, Missouri, making history as one of the first Black-owned stores to have an actual brick and mortar space inside of the popular grocer. Chris dedicates his success to his late grandmother, Ruby Jean,…
Two ex-prosecutors’ law licenses suspended for covering up St. Louis police beating
Ambry Nichole Schuessler (left) and Katherine “Katie” Dierdorf
Black kids in Missouri are being shot down in unspeakable numbers
Last year, the city of St. Louis saw four killings involving children 16 years or younger, a fraction of this year’s horrific tally. A child in Ferguson, Missouri, August 2014. CREDIT: Scott Olson/Getty Images
Police Try To Defend Arresting A Black Man With A Baby In His Arms
The disturbing video has gone viral. A video has gone viral of St. Louis County, Missouri arresting a Black man with a baby in his arms. Now the police have released a statement, claiming the video was heavily edited and defending the arrest. See the incident below, which reportedly happened on July 7: white…
‘I hope Trump is assassinated’: A Missouri lawmaker faces mounting calls to resign after Facebook comment
Missouri state Sen. Maria Chappelle-Nadal speaks on the Senate floor in Jefferson City, Mo., in 2014. (Associated Press) A Missouri lawmaker is under mounting pressure to resign after she said on social media she hopes President Trump is assassinated, following his response to violence at a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville.
