black history

Randy Rafter is the executive director of Black Pride STL, the second oldest Black gay pride organization in the country. The group began more than 30 years ago during the AIDS epidemic, but has sense evolved and expanded to serve the entirety of a person.

The city's Public Works and Planning Committee voted to table a parking construction plan for the Jefferson City Community Center during Thursday's meeting.

Sen. Angela Mosley (D-Florissant), introduced a bill Tuesday that would designate the first week of February as Black History Week.

A new report from St. Louis University researchers found that many Black teachers in Missouri faced employment termination or other forms of classroom displacement as a result of integration between 1954 and 1970.

A Black student group at the University of Missouri says it was forced to rename an upcoming barbecue the Welcome Black and Gold BBQ instead of the Welcome Black BBQ.

Samantha Enlund wants 950 more homeowners to disavow racially restrictive covenants still on the deeds to their homes. The now-illegal restrictions were long used to keep Black people and other ethnic and racial minorities out of white neighborhoods.

Dred Scott, the enslaved man whose case made it to the U.S. Supreme Court, is getting a new memorial monument. The Dred Scott Heritage Foundation is dedicating the monument in his honor on Saturday at Calvary Cemetery in St. Louis.

The Sharp End Heritage Committee dedicated the trail's 24th marker in June to honor the site that used to be an important gathering place for Columbia's Black community.

KBIA's T’Keyah Thomas sits down with with Ragtag Film Society's Ted Rogers and Faramola Shonekan as they talk a little bit about Black Independents Vol III, their annual Black independent film series happening over at Ragtag Cinema this February for Black History Month.

James S. Rollins, known as the father of the University of Missouri, owned 34 slaves.Not all 4 million slaves were freed under the Emancipation…