The Latinx Arts Network, a local arts organization, is hosting a week of arts events beginning Thursday to highlight Latin American artists in the St. Louis area. Latinx Arts Week will include a culinary experience, a film festival, an author’s showcase and art exhibitions.

Artist and researcher Janna Añonuevo Langholz led the effort to establish a marker at the site of the former brutal “human zoo” in the 1904 World’s Fair.

According to the National Park Service, around 3,700 Black men — mostly enslaved — from Missouri served in the United States Colored Troops regiments during the Civil War.

In the first year for a new category honoring beverage professionals, two local women made the list, and are celebrating each other.

Other corporate sponsors have also cut back on their support as Pride St. Louis looks to make up a $150,000 shortfall.

The new ATRA art exhibition highlights the challenges immigrants face living in America.

The desire to feel connected to one’s city can leave individuals searching for something that they felt they missed in their early education. St. Louisan Erica Threnn turned a pandemic pastime into a mission to share the city’s history through social media.

The St. Alphonsus Liguori Catholic Church in north St. Louis received $500,000 from the National Trust for Historic Preservation’s African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund to restore its 120-year-old stained glass windows.

The adored resident polar bear at the St. Louis Zoo, Kali, was transferred to the Toledo Zoo & Aquarium in Ohio this week, and twin polar bear cubs have taken his place in St. Louis.

St. Louis’ celebration began as a house party, the riot of ‘99 made our Mardi Gras what it is today and why you shouldn’t pick beads up off the ground.