Bree reflects on Ferguson visit
Newsome says unrest here gave the movement ‘a revolutionary spirit’
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INSIDE BUSINESS
How would market chaos affect 2016 race If the global swoon in stock prices were to turn into something more serious, which candidates would benefit?
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Vol. 86 No. 21 COMPLIMENTARY
Witnesses dispute police account Killing of Mansur Ball-Bey investigated by police, prosecutor, family attorneys By Rebecca Rivas Of The St. Louis American Shaken and tearful, the 14-yearold friend of Mansur Ball-Bey, who was shot and killed by St. Louis city police on August 19 in the Fountain Park neighborhood, gave his testimony to police and the St. Louis Circuit
Community members angrily confronted St. Louis police on August 19 after 18-year-old Mansur Ball-Bey was shot in the back by police and killed near Page and Walton in the Fountain Park neighborhood.
Attorney’s office on Tuesday, August 25, according to attorneys representing Ball-Bey’s family. Both the boy’s mother and Jermaine Wooten, one of the family’s attorneys, said they were present as he told investigators that Ball-Bey, See MANSUR, A7
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COMMUNITY
‘Angel on earth’ ushered into heaven
Moving past the blame to unified action We hear the variation of cries to “Stop the Violence,” but often there’s no action plan as to how to stop it.
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LIVING IT
For the love of Jamyla
Hundreds mourn tragic death of Jamyla Bolden with vigil
A crowd of nearly 400 – including dozens of children – filled the 9200 block of Ellison to participate in a candlelight vigil, balloon release and march in memory of Jamyla Bolden.
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By Kenya Vaughn Of The St. Louis American
SPORTS
Black head coaches don’t get second chances Tyrone Willingham, who was fired at Notre Dame and then hired by the University of Washington, is the only black coach that has resurfaced as a head coach at a major program.
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Akeelah Kelly, 9, a friend of Jamyla Bolden, wept with her mother in Ferguson on August 20 during the vigil for the 9-year-old girl killed by a stray civilian bullet while studying.
“No one had the right to take Jamyla’s dreams, her hopes, her graduations or her wedding,” said Rev. Traci Blackmon. “No one had the right to do that.” Blackmon stood on the frontlines in Ferguson n “It ain’t about amidst the constant protest nothing to stand in in response to the death the streets yelling if of Michael Brown Jr. last we don’t take care August. Thursday, August 20 of our own.” she was less than two blocks away from the heart – Rev. Traci of the unrest, helping a Blackmon community bid farewell to 9-year-old Jamyla Bolden. The fourth grade Ferguson resident was killed when a stray bullet entered her home Tuesday, August 18. A crowd of nearly 400 – including dozens of children – filled the 9200 block of Ellison to participate in a candlelight vigil, balloon release and march in memory of Jamyla. See JAMYLA, A6
Superintendent on the street
Tiffany Anderson honored as Stellar Performer Sept. 25 Salute
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By Rebecca Rivas Of The St. Louis American At 7 a.m. on August 21, Jennings Schools Superintendent Tiffany Anderson stood on the corner of one of the district’s busiest intersections dressed in a skirt suit – but with white tennis shoes on her feet. She leaned on her hand-held stop sign like a
cane, waiting to serve as a crossing guard for families. “It’s a beautiful way to start and end your day,” said Anderson, who became superintendent in 2012. The district serves about 2,500 students in eight schools and one
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alternative program. “I love being on the street,” she said. “I call everybody Mom and Dad. This morning alone, I got to fix problems that I probably wouldn’t have if I was just in an office or walking through a school building.” That morning, a mother told See ANDERSON, A6
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