Jamilah Nasheed

St. Louis Activist Percy Green Compares Lacy Clay to Samuel L. Jackson in Django Unchained

The St. Louis mayor's race is over -- but controversial commentary on the battle between Francis Slay and Lewis Reed apparently is not. Activist Percy Green sent around an op-ed he wrote to his e-mail list this week with his analysis of the primary race between the long-time incumbent and challeng ... More >>

Lewis Reed V. Francis Slay: Top Ten Craziest Campaign Fights in Mayor's Race (PHOTOS)

The day is here. Voters will effectively choose the next mayor of the City of St. Louis in today's Democratic primary race, where incumbent Francis Slay, vying for an unprecedented fourth term, will face off against challenger Lewis Reed, president of the Board of Aldermen, and Jimmie Matthews, the ... More >>

Jamilah Nasheed for Francis Slay: Vote Jimmie Matthews if You Don't Like the White Mayor

Tomorrow is the primary election for mayor of St. Louis -- and the campaigns of the two frontrunners are falling apart. At least that seems to be the message of both the Lewis Reed and Francis Slay campaigns, who are today fighting about a Facebook post from State Senator Jamilah Nasheed. Nasheed, ... More >>

Lewis Reed: Police Called to Fundraising Event After Dispute Escalates

An argument outside of a fundraising event for Aldermanic President Lewis Reed, candidate for mayor, is getting several retellings, some of them more dramatic than others. Zudhi Masri, owner of Yeatman Market, says he attended the fundraiser on Sunday night at the invitation of the event's host an ... More >>

Sisters For Slay: Jamilah Nasheed Rallies Support For Mayor Francis Slay's Reelection Bid

On Monday, we wrote about Mayor Francis Slay's latest fundraising efforts -- with an event featuring key Muslim leaders in the City of St. Louis. We now have details on another campaign initiative of the incumbent who will face off with Board of Alderman President Lewis Reed in the March Democratic ... More >>

With Akin Out, Here Are 5 Wackos to Watch in Missouri Politics

What's Daily RFT gonna do without Todd Akin in the Senate? After breathing a sigh of relief for our state's integrity, we've gotta admit we'll miss the man who has given us so much in mortifying entertainment, from "legitimate rape" to "at the heart of liberalism really is a hatred for God" to the p ... More >>

ACLU: Proposition A for Local Control of Police is a Huge Mistake. Reject It!

Once upon a time in Missouri, back in the Civil War, our governor's heart belonged to the Confederacy. But St. Louis and its mighty police force leaned Union. So the governor and his legislator pals in Jefferson City created a state board to control us. That system is still in place a century and a ... More >>

Despite Aggressive Home Defense, Help from Slay, Woman Forced from Home of 21 Years

What do you say to a woman who is losing her home of 21 years, watching as strangers drop all of her possessions in trash bags on the curb? "If anyone interferes with our movers, we're taking all of your things to the dump," a sheriff's deputy told Angelia Williams, who stood outside her Penrose h ... More >>

State Rep Jamilah Nasheed: Governor's Control of STL City Police "Built on Evil and Hatred"

This November, Missourians must will decide whether to release St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department from state control -- a vestige of Civil War politics -- and allow the city to oversee its own cops.  Few people have wanted this more than state Representative Jamilah Nasheed of the 60th di ... More >>

Twitter Fight! Missouri Politicians Trade "Thug" Insults

Charlotte, North Carolina, wasn't the only place where political insults were flying yesterday. Last night things got heated on Twitter after state Senator Jason Crowell (R-Cape Giradrdaeu) called Rep. Jamillah Nasheed (D-St. Louis) a "thug" and a "low life." Nasheed, no stranger to controversy, re ... More >>

Fight Over Northside Community Garden Turns Political

The urban farming trend that's sweeping the nation has turned ugly in North St. Louis, where local politicians are squabbling over the fate of a community garden. That's not what she intended, insists 21st Ward Committeewoman Audrey Larkin, when she helped start Northside Community Garden 15 weeks ... More >>

Odds Stacked Against Black Candidates, According to Some Operatives

If black candidates do not win these elections, where the odds are stacked against them, St. Louis, a city that is roughly 50 percent African American, will have no black representatives in Congress, the Missouri Senate or in the state House.

Supreme Court Ruling Puts Jamilah Nasheed Back on Ballot [Updated]

Update June 20 -- Mayor Slay has officially endorsed Nasheed for the fifth district senate seat. The mayor tweeted earlier this afternoon: "STL needs her energy in Jeff City." ------ Jamilah Nasheed's plan for world domination can continue, thanks to the Missouri Supreme Court, which ruled yesterd ... More >>

Jamilah Nasheed Is Running For State Senate

​Today state Representative Jamilah Nasheed, subject of our August feature story Just Who Does Jamilah Nasheed Think She Is?, announced that she is running for the state Senate seat currently held by Robin Wright-Jones. Nasheed, who is in the middle of her third term in the state House, immediat ... More >>

The 2011 Unreal News Challenge

Mississippi River Bridge Project Employment Disparity Stings for African American Community Hit Hard By Recession

"I myself don't choose to be a third generation welfare mother. I want to work in the field that I'm trained in," says Dent.​Tiama Dent is a single mother of two children and a graduate of the Illinois Department of Transportation's Highway Construction Preparatory Training program. The eight-w ... More >>

Let the Dems keep hating: Jamilah Nasheed could pull off the political coup of the century

Race Trumps Politics in Missouri Redistricting

Nasheed: Black before Democrat.​Yesterday the Missouri Legislature overrode Governor Jay Nixon's veto of a redistricting map that eliminates the district of Democratic Congressman Russ Carnahan. In securing the override, the Republican-controlled Legislature needed the votes of four Democrats. The ... More >>

Comment of the Day: Is It Okay For Blacks to Have Race-Based Agenda?

Today's comment comes in a response to a post about how four black Missouri legislators lined up with Republicans to override Governor Jay Nixon's veto of the state's new congressional districts. In voting with the Republicans, the four Democratic defectors ensured that the districts of Missouri's t ... More >>

Citizens For a Stronger St. Louis: Pro-Tax Group Spent $417K

Rex Sinquefield: Billionaire spent $11 million, apparently to help a few Dems make a quick buck.​Rex Sinquefield may have been hoping to kickstart a discussion about whether the city's earnings tax is a good thing -- a discussion Mayor Francis Slay has indicated he's willing to have. But in the me ... More >>

State Senator Accused of Threatening Missouri Rep. During Lil' Wayne Concert

Todd OwyoungUmm, security? Can you tell those women in the Ameren suite to shut up?​Given his prior gun and drug arrests, one would think that rapper Lil' Wayne would have provided the crowd at Scottrade Center with all the gangsta theatrics they could handle during his jam-packed concert last nig ... More >>

AUDIO: Maria Chapelle-Nadal Is "Off the Plantation" Not a "House Slave"

Chapelle-Nadal: Do I sound crazy? I don't sound crazy. No, not at all.​So, if you haven't heard by now, State Senator Maria Chapelle-Nadal earned the ire of many of her fellow elected officials on Tuesday when she compared them to "house slaves" during an interview on WGNU. Chapelle-Nadal made the ... More >>

Mayor Francis Slay Testifying Today for Local Control of St. Louis Police

​St. Louis Mayor Francis Slay is slated to testify this afternoon in Jefferson City in support of local control for the St. Louis police department. Slay will speak around 2:30 p.m. in the Senate lounge regarding HB 71, a bill sponsored by state rep Jamilah Nasheed (D - St. Louis) that would chang ... More >>

Non-Racist St. Louis Tea Party Has Odd Way of Showing It

The handiwork of St. Louis Tea Party lobbyist Gary Wiegert's has been described as "race-baiting" -- and that's a Republican who said that.​We know. We know. Despite the findings of the NAACP and the curious links between its better-known mouthpieces and hate groups, the Tea Party is not a racist ... More >>

"Race Baiting" Video Suggests Black Panthers Behind Effort for Local Control of Police

Danger alert! Black radicals will control St. Louis police department!!!​The St. Louis Tea Party and a former president of the St. Louis Police Officers Association have sunk to new lows in their attempts to thwart an effort to restore local control of the St. Louis police department. Last Thursda ... More >>

State Rep: St. Louis Gangs at War! Police: No They're Not. Shut Up.

Following a bloody weekend that left several north city residents dead, State Rep. Jamilah Nasheed (D - North St. Louis) says St. Louis gangs are at war and she wants the police to exert all their energy in quelling the violence. Nasheed tells KMOX that she's heard that gangs controlling the the 440 ... More >>

State Legislators Shoot Down Bill for Local Control of St. Louis Police

Mr. Bill: House Bill 1601​The Missouri House today voted 63-86 to defeat defeat a bill that would have placed the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department under control of city hall. As it stands now, the police department is controlled by a board of commissioners selected by the governor. Tod ... More >>

Bill for Local Control of St. Louis Police Clears Committee

The St. Louis police have been under state control since cops looked like this, a.k.a. the Civil War.​One down, one to go. A bill that would turn oversight of the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department to city officials cleared a contentious committee meeting yesterday in the Missouri House. The ... More >>

Mayor Francis Slay, Others, Testify to Lawmakers on Local Control of St. Louis Police

Da' Mare: Francis Slay​Mayor Francis Slay reiterated his case for local control of the St. Louis police department yesterday.Speaking last night to the House Special Committee on Urban Issues in Jefferson City, Slay told lawmakers that the system in place since the Civil War -- in which the gover ... More >>

Emergency Funding For Metro Clears One Hurdle, Faces More

The Missouri House this week approved spending $12 million in federal stimulus funds to alleviate budget cuts at cash strapped Metro. The bill (H.B. 22) -- part of a larger stimulus measure -- was defeated once in the House before passing on Monday. It now faces an uncertain battle in the Senate. It ... More >>

Tax Credit Update

Parade Charade

The search for the real reason for moving the Annie Malone Parade

Why Aren't You Rich?

Week of June 2, 2004

The Kings of Kingshighway

The Roberts brothers fight to bring back life to north St. Louis