The painter didn’t see many portraits of Black subjects on the walls of the St. Louis Art Museum. So he put them there.

Ferguson City Council member Wesley Bell successfully challenged St. Louis County prosecuting attorney Bob McCulloch, as organizers and voters shout #ByeBob.

Nicole D. Nelson: “All of this is exhausting. The insensitivity. The mockery of real struggle and pain. The disregard. The arrogance.”

Jason Stockley will not face punishment for fatally shooting Anthony Lamar Smith in 2011.

“State interference in city minimum wage laws stems from a larger Jim Crow legacy of blocking economic policies that primarily benefit communities of color.”

Activists: “Companies can either snatch back our raise and take food out of the mouths of children, or they can do the right thing by honoring the St. Louis wage increase and paying us at least $10 an hour.”