Kayla Reed

About 100 people gathered at Kiener Plaza on Monday evening in remembrance of Massey, who was killed by a sheriff's deputy in her Illinois home earlier this month.

The proposed issues for the report will likely include housing, neighborhood and built environment, education, public health, jobs and economy and state violence.

The Ferguson uprising in 2014 was widely tweeted. It gave a voice to people who often have been ignored by traditional media. What happens if the platform goes up in smoke?

People in the St. Louis region are still reeling from the effects of flash flooding last week.

As Kayla Reed and a new generation of local leaders saw each of their reform efforts fail to curb police violence in the St. Louis area, they soon realized that what they really had to overcome was the police union’s political force in local elections.

It’s been more than six years since Michael Brown’s killing made St. Louis the epicenter of the most promising civil rights movement since the 1960s. Yet despite stacks of studies and seemingly unprecedented public support for change, St. Louis has not seen a single substantive victory for police reform, thanks in large part to an influential police union and a larger police apparatus that has stymied accountability.

Kayla Reed shares what she saw at the City Justice Center and the Medium Security Institution, better known as the Workhouse — and what she hopes city leaders will do with those observations.

The St. Louis Board of Aldermen unanimously passed a bill Friday that will close the north St. Louis jail known as the Workhouse.The board was also…

In 2018, a powerhouse trio of nonprofits and activist groups set off on an unlikely quest: They wanted to close the city’s notorious Medium Security…

What started out as a viral video exposing the poor conditions detainees were facing inside St. Louis’ Medium Security Institution — also known as the…