Black History

With a revolutionary deck of cards and new designs, the Kansas City-raised designer focuses on bringing culture into her passion projects.

Club Riviera rivaled the Cotton Club in Harlem and attracted the biggest jazz acts of the day, including Nat King Cole and Duke Ellington. A new play hopes to resurrect the club’s history before it’s lost.

Parents and lawmakers across the nation are pushing to ban books in schools. Many of the challenged books are by Black or LGBTQ authors. St. Louis-area students are determined to read banned materials to better understand Black history.

The century-old Black cemetery in north St. Louis County is seeing new attention from volunteers after decades of neglect.

Historian Katie Moon describes notable women who shaped St. Louis history.

Slavery in Missouri is rarely discussed, but unique geography in its western region helped create a treacherous set of circumstances for the enslaved.

The Griot Museum of Black History has received a $100,000 grant to honor the historic contributions of Black St. Louis women.

Homer G. Phillips Hospital was internationally known as a state-of-the-art institution and for training Black medical graduates, when few other places did so. The hospital, located in the Ville, was open from 1937 to 1979.

After decades of grassroots organization and cleanup efforts by volunteers, the Father Dickson Cemetery in Crestwood has been added to the National Register of Historic Places.

“We have so many different cultural aspects, and we’re not taking care of them,” said one East St. Louisan.