Miss Robbie Montgomery is the owner of the Sweetie Pie’s chain, which is based in St. Louis. She’s also the subject of OWN’s “Welcome To Sweetie Pies,” which makes its return to the TV channel for a new season this week. She reveals what has been the hardest thing about building this successful empire. She […]

https://twitter.com/TheRoot/status/795445755360247808 The feeling of losing your child is very extreme and inexplicable; but to see a photo of their dead body on the internet is even more unsettling. On August 8th, Kim Staton learned her 28-year-old son Omar Raham was found dead in his Pine Lawn home of an apparent drug overdose. Adding fuel to the […]

NewsOne’s Top 5 gives you a quick rundown of the viral stories we’re talking about today. REPORT: Nearly 1,000 Cops Nationwide See Licenses Revoked Over…

Overnight companies extinguished this #church #fire; 4700blk of Plover. Investigation is ongoing. #STLCity pic.twitter.com/BqopqOqOib — STLFD PIO (@STLFireDept) October 17, 2015 A series of fires…

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More proof that the state of emergency exists in the Black community? Check out the numbers in this week's The Retweet.

One of the most well-known photos of the Ferguson protests of 2014 featured Edward Crawford, the dreadlocked man holding a bag potato chips while flinging…

Mansur Ball-Bey, the Black 18-year-old who was shot and killed by a St. Louis police officer died from a single gunshot wound to the back

The wife of MLB's St. Louis Cardinals President Bill DeWitt is planning to pay for the funeral of a 9-year-old girl shot dead in Ferguson

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Following unrest in Ferguson, St. Louis County Executive Steve Stenger in a statement announced a state of emergency Monday afternoon.