Philip Deitch A traveling exhibit created by Moms Demand Action s Missouri chapter uses T-shirts to embody the Missouri kids lost to gun homicides in 2020.
For Leslie Washington and Tonya McCaw, the fight for increased gun restrictions is personal.
Washington, a survivor of domestic violence, was threatened by her ex-husband with a firearm one reason she fled St. Louis for Cape Girardeau, where she lives today. She also lost one relative to suicide and another to murder. In both cases, the weapon was a gun.
As for McCaw, her husband was speaking to his sister outside their mother’s home last year in north St. Louis when they were confronted with a hail of bullets. “All of a sudden, gunfire,” McCaw recalled on Tuesday’s
What are you looking forward to when you retire from the rabbinate? That’s the question we posed to several St. Louis area rabbis. Here’s what they told us:
In the mid ’90s, when Rabbi Jeffrey Stiffman served as chairman of the Central Conference of American Rabbis (CCAR) ethics committee, the Reform Jewish group faced a quandary: What do
Close
April 20, 2021; Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. Crowds at Hennepin Government Center after Derek Chauvin was found guilty of second-degree murder, third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter in the death of George Floyd. Floyd died on May 25, 2020 while in police custody. A video showing Derek Chauvin kneeling on George Floyd s neck sparked world wide protests against police brutality.. Mandatory Credit: Jack Gruber-USA TODAY
Jack Gruber
BY JORDAN PALMER