Sumner is the first high school west of the Mississippi River to graduate Black students. This year is its 150th anniversary. At a recent celebration, alumni say Sumner is here to stay and will fight to keep it open.

The Connections to Success program is helping St. Louisans of various ages to find economic independence. That includes finding out what paperwork is needed to obtain an ID card, learning about relationship love languages or how to set and reach realistic goals.

The so-called Crown Act was signed by Missouri Gov. Mike Kehoe on July 9. Missouri became the 28th state to pass legislation that makes it illegal to discriminate based on the texture or style of one's hair.

While most high school football fields sit quiet in the dog days of summer, one in the Metro East is bursting with music and motion. Dive inside the world of drum corps and its ties to the Metro East.

Retirees of Sheet Metal Workers Local 36 are bringing a replica of the famous SS Admiral steamboat back to life. And, a team from Rolla is world champions. But it’s not an athletic team - it’s a collection of more than 100 students at Missouri University of Science and Technology who designed and built a Mars rover.

A documentary is highlighting St. Louis’s Black history through the eyes of a retired priest. Father Gerry Kleba is a white priest from south St. Louis who headed up two Catholic churches in Black neighborhoods for decades and has led tours of Black St. Louis’ history for five years.

Missouri’s Medicaid program is about to go through a major transformation with the advent of federally-imposed work requirements. And while critics of this idea believe they’re aimed at kicking eligible people off of the health care program, Missouri’s Medicaid director contends they could be implemented in an unobtrusive way.

Approximately 9% of Missourians say they have significant medical bills they can’t pay. In the St. Louis region, physicians groups have filed hundreds of lawsuits to collect unpaid debt. New research in the open-access journal JAMA Network Open found groups sued those in zip codes with low-income and Black residents more.

Nashat Aljerwan and his family have lived at Za'atari Refugee Camp in Jordan for 12 years. But in 2023, a path to resettlement opened that would have allowed them to come to St. Louis. That path quickly closed. In the wake of President Trump’s January executive order to suspend all refugee resettlement, the Aljerwan family became one amongn thousands already vetted, approved, and in limbo.

A group of Southern California teenagers formed the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band amid the folk revival of the mid-60’s. The group became a pillar of country music radio for decades, scoring 17 straight top-ten singles. The Dirt Band plays Chesterfield Amphitheatre on Thursday as the group bids farewell to touring.