Nation Sep 29 In this 5k, runners experience the history and resilience of North St. Louis The race, which began in 2018, was designed to showcase the resilience and beauty of this growing neighborhood, and the movement to provide equitable and affordable housing to a community that has long gone without it.
Nation Sep 18 With new newspaper and new businesses, Afghan refugees finding new community in Missouri While more than 1.6 million Afghans have fled the country since 2021, the total number in neighboring countries is 8.2 million, underscoring the humanitarian crisis for one of the largest displaced groups in the world. Some now call St. Louis…
Nation Sep 07 How states are responding after federal funding for free school meals for all ends During the pandemic, the federal government provided funds for free healthy school meals for students, but that program ended in 2022. Most states went back to the system they had before, but some will continue providing meals. NewsHour Communities Correspondents…
Politics Aug 29 Judge denies request to halt Missouri’s gender-affirming medical care ban The new law in Missouri prohibits health care providers from prescribing or administering hormones or puberty-blockers to patients under 18 unless they were already receiving said treatment prior to Aug. 28.
Nation Jul 27 In St. Louis, a neighborhood destroyed, and the children who remember Urban renewal forced nearly 20,000 residents, many Black, out of Mill Creek Valley starting in the late 1950s. The people who lived there want to make sure the community doesn’t forget.
Nation Jul 18 A year after catastrophic flash flooding, recovery for many Missourians is just beginning The historic weather event that hit St. Louis during the early hours of July 26, 2022, was, as the National Weather Service noted, the “most prolific” rainfall the area has seen since record-keeping began in 1874.
Nation Jul 03 The effort to ban hairstyle discrimination nationwide CROWN Act Day is celebrated on July 3 in honor of the date when legislation prohibiting discrimination based on hair texture or style was first passed at the state level. NewsHour Communities correspondent in St. Louis Gabrielle Hays reports on…
Nation Jul 03 When CROWN acts stall in states, cities step in to ban hair discrimination Though more than 20 states across the country have passed CROWN Act legislation in recent years, Missouri has not. Still, cities in the state have enacted their own policy.
Arts Jun 13 Missouri’s LGBTQ+ community is often left out of history. A new effort fights to preserve it Oral history is at the forefront of a new virtual exhibit in St. Louis with one goal in mind: Ensuring LGBTQ+ history in the area isn’t forgotten.
Nation Jun 07 How a 950-mile bike ride is helping Cherokee youth reclaim their history For the 15th straight year Cherokee youth are retracing the Trail of Tears on bikes in hopes of achieving a deeper understanding of their homeland and the forced removal that took it away.