Washington University in St. Louis is the latest to experience racism on its campus, this time in the form of vandalism on a prominent Black History mural that was defaced with symbolism of white supremacy.

Billed as the "Black HerStory Initiative," The Griot Museum will use grant money received as part of The Monument Lab Re:Generation team to to create awareness on how much Black women have helped build the area with help from local artists and activists.

Crime

Dustin Boone's lawyers are really trying to argue that the ex-cop convicted in the beating of detective Luther Hall - who was working undercover at a BLM protest - should get a light sentence because St. Louis officers brutalizing Black people is basically a police love language.

Several Twitter users called out a white St. Louis attorney for attacks on Action St. Louis, a grassroots racial justice organization, and its staff.

An ex-St. Louis police officer was found guilty for his part in the brutal beating of an undercover Black officer, sparked by a protest over the acquittal of police officer Jason Stockley for the 2017 shooting death of 24-year-old Black man Anthony Lamar Smith.

Almost a year shy of violently wielding a gun at Black Lives Matter protesters during the height of the movement in St. Louis, Missouri, Mark McCloksey, a Republican provocateur, has announced his plans to run for Senate.

National News

St. Louis Sheriff Vernon Betts is running for re-election against his former deputy, Alfred Montgomery, and the two have such a contentious history that it nearly turned physical on a viral video.

https://twitter.com/TheRoot/status/795445755360247808 The feeling of losing your child is very extreme and inexplicable; but to see a photo of their dead body on the internet is even more unsettling. On August 8th, Kim Staton learned her 28-year-old son Omar Raham was found dead in his Pine Lawn home of an apparent drug overdose. Adding fuel to the […]

A 14-year-old boy is currently in critical, but stable, condition after being shot by police on Sunday morning in St. Louis, Missouri.

St. Louis Schools plan to draw down its long-running school desegregation program. Observers say the program achieved integration, but mixed academic results.