The Ville

A St. Louis County judge dismissed a lawsuit last month filed by a Black nursing organization against a north St. Louis health center using civil rights advocate Homer G. Phillips’ name. Homer G. Phillips Nurses Alumni Inc. trademarked the name, and it claimed the three-bed care facility infringed upon it.

Participants are invited to walk, run and dance through the Ville at the sixth annual Trap Run.

Community leaders in St. Louis are determined to keep fighting developer Paul McKee’s use of Homer G. Phillps’ name for a north St. Louis health center.

Trauma surgeon Dr. LJ Punch also talked about the psychological harm gun violence causes at the harvest festival at Sumner High School.

Forest ReLeaf is the recipient of the Arbor Day Foundation’s first-ever Environmental Equity Grant, which will fund 200 new trees for the city’s Ville community.

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.

A plan to convert the old Simmons School in The Ville neighborhood is being led by a developer who attended the elementary school years ago.

The school board approved a new effort to reinvigorate Sumner's declining enrollment, rather than close the historic school.

High-steppers, marching bands and elaborate floats are always crowd pleasers at the Annie Malone Children and Family Services Annie Malone May Day…

In the mid-20th century, St. Louis was home to one of the only hospitals where African-Americans could train as doctors. In segregated St. Louis, Homer G.…