An 8-year-old Missouri boy saved himself and his siblings as he watched his mother get shot to death. Porsha Owens, a mother of three, was killed Monday morning as she was leading her kids to her car to take them to day care.
David Robinson has already spent almost 20 years of his life in prison for a murder he did not commit.
With prom coming up, high school seniors Eric Rogers II and Dirone Taylor needed something to wear. So the pair hit up a Nordstrom Rack in Brentwood, Mo., along with their friend, college freshman Mekhi Lee, to lock down an outfit and accessories for the big night. But while they searched for clothes, they noticed…
In the years following the death of her son Michael Brown at the hands of Ferguson, Mo., police, Lezley McSpadden has completed her high school diploma, written a book, campaigned for social justice and joined Hillary Clinton on her 2016 bid for the presidency.
Sometimes it just doesn’t matter how much good you want to do for the world; people are going to hate and fear you anyway. This doesn’t just apply to the X-Men, dentists and high school grammar teachers; it also applies to politicians. While much of the public likes to criticize “Washington” and “the government” for…
Kansas City, Mo., police are investigating after shooting threats were made against Northeast High School students—specifically, its black students.
Missourians across the state are pushing to change laws that bar felons from working certain jobs, and lawmakers are listening.
Nobody has your back like Mama does. And it took one particularly insistent mother—and the surveillance video she pushed police to review—to stop her sons from being jailed on false robbery charges after they were set up by a white man whom cops chose to believe over them.
The University of South Carolina Gamecocks and University of Missouri Tigers don’t like each other, and that’s a good thing, especially when it comes to sports. Natural rivalries are what makes sports entertaining, but on Sunday that intensity turned ugly as several reports claim that South Carolina fans spit at and…
Police charged a former city spokesman with possession of methamphetamine on Tuesday after a traffic stop.
So a city official walks into work one day and allegedly pumps a shotgun toward his “liberal” co-worker. When the cops come a-calling (because, you know, what the entire fuck), he claims he was just “teasing” the female clerk.
A St. Charles, Mo., father is looking for other options after he says that his son and other classmates were called racial slurs by a school employee during fourth-grade recess at their elementary school.
There are 400 pages of documents that have been identified by the U.S. Department of Justice as being related to an investigation conducted by its Office of Community Oriented Policing Services after the 2014 shooting of Michael Brown by then-Ferguson, Mo., Police Officer Darren Wilson, and a great majority of the…
A Missouri woman is sharing her outrage and pain after, she says, someone threw a piece of fried chicken through her car window while she was sitting in traffic minding her own business.
A Lake Ozark, Mo., bar owner is under scrutiny after a passerby called out his makeshift doormat as racist.
St. Louis is not having it. For the second night in a row, protesters took to the streets in righteous anger over yet another acquittal of a police officer charged with first-degree murder in the death of yet another African American.
I have said it before and I will say it again: Black women are Donald Trump’s kryptonite. There is not one group of people that seems to trigger the Trump administration more than black women, who are loud, proud and willing to call out his sheer incompetence, venality and existential danger to everything anyone hopes…
Again and again and again, it keeps happening. Another police officer has walked away without repercussions after gunning down a black man. On Friday morning, a St. Louis judge found now-former Police Officer Jason Stockley not guilty of first-degree murder in the 2011 shooting death of Anthony Lamar Smith, a black…
Y’all, there’s dumb and then there’s dumb. And one Liberty, Mo., resident is literally the representation of being “dumber than a bag of rocks” after throwing up a “Slaves 4 Sale” sign, all because he was mad at his neighbors for apparently treating him like a racist because he hangs a Confederate flag (the flag of…
Nothing says Good Ole Party like the threat of a lynching, and that’s exactly what Republican Missouri Rep. Warren Love expressed what he hoped would happen after people were seen defacing a Confederate monument in his state’s Springfield National Cemetery.
