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Personal, Practical and Progressive: Three reasons why Mayor Francis Slay doesn’t deserve your vote.

on February 26, 2013

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An Inconvenient Crisis

on February 18, 2013

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"It’s all about land mass and power": Ald. Charles Quincy Troupe on upcoming mayoral and aldermanic races

on February 16, 2013

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Horror in the House of Ill Repute

on November 07, 2012

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Tomorrow's Tomorrows

on November 05, 2012

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You, me, us, we and "things that matter"

on October 07, 2012

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Rags to Riches/Riches-to-Rags: Confessions of a Humbled Doer

on August 02, 2012

Brainwashed: Challenging the Myth of Black Inferiority North St. Louis South St. Louis St. Louis Post-Dispatch Sylvester Brown Jr. Tavis Smiley The Sweet Potato Project Tom Burrell

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Not My America

on August 02, 2012

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Gateway Gas

A Novel by Sylvester Brown, Jr.

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Sylvester Brown, Jr.

http://sylvesterbrownjr.blogspot.com/: SAINT LOUIS, MO, United States; Sylvester is a former award-winning columnist for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Prior to that, he published Take Five Magazine for 15 years. After leaving the Post in 2009, Sylvester worked as a consultant and researcher for SmileyBooks, owned by public radio and TV commentator Tavis Smiley on several books including, “The Rich & the Rest of Us,” written by Smiley and Dr. Cornel West. Sylvester founded the Sweet Potato Project in 2012, a program that taught urban youth entrepreneurism through agriculture. In 2019, Sylvester self-published his own book “When We Listen: Recognizing the Potential of Urban Youth.” Sylvester was awarded the 2020 Deaconess Foundation Fellowship to chronicle the impact of COVID-19 on the lives of Black St. Louisans for the St. Louis American newspaper. His latest book, "White Castles with Jesus & Uncle Ray at the used Tire Shop," a collection of his short stories and commentaries was published in January or 2021.

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