DeAsia Paige

Skate City is known to have the “smoothest concrete in the United States,” and is East St Louis’ lone skating rink.

District 11 serves Bond, Clinton, Madison, Monroe and St. Clair counties.

“I can’t do anything,” a resident said. “My hands are tied.”

The agreement for the state funding includes a requirement for the city to be transparent with residents about how they’re spending the money.

The state is also offering a virtual multi-agency resource center for residents.

Record-breaking rainfall brought flooding to the St. Louis region including areas of Swansea, Belleville and Granite City, Illinois.

Hettie Barnhill's, “a love letter to Brian, Lesley, and Michelle,” will be shown at the Whitaker St. Louis Filmmakers Showcase. The experimental feature is a commentary on the injustices faced by Black people in this country.

An East St. Louis music teacher, named Art Educator of the Year by the Arts and Education Council of St. Louis, is making stringed instruments and classical music accessible to all.

“I look at it as me paying it forward because I’ve been doing music since I was 12, and I wish somebody would’ve given me game beforehand,” Anthony Lucius said.

“My son was bleeding like a slaughtered pig,” the man’s mom said about the beating.

Landsowne Up aims to create faith-based economic revival in the city, starting with a new housing project in the city’s northeast end.

“Those guys, they were just proud Black men— capable, talented, smart and they were role models for all of us,” an East St. Louis native said.