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Kayla Reed is the executive director and co-founder of Action St. Louis. Editor s note: This is part two of a collaboration between The Missouri Independent and Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting looking at how the fight for police reform in St. Louis has evolved. Read part one. The race was too close. Kayla Reed, co-founder and executive director of Action St. Louis, curled over her desk. Her long, dark locs created curtains around her body as she used one hand to search election results on her cellphone. With the other hand, she hopped into a Zoom call on her laptop. ....
Nyara Williams, Datiana Guerrero and Collin W. Elliott of Preserve are among the recipients of the Luminary s 2021 Futures Fund grants. A YouTube program featuring Black artists in conversation, a magazine highlighting work by artists of color and public art installations on vacant lots in north St. Louis are among the projects that will be supported by the Luminary’s Futures Fund. The Cherokee Street art gallery announced 10 recipients of grants up to about $8,000 each. The total amount disbursed is $60,000. The grant program is funded by the New York-based Andy Warhol Foundation For The Visual Arts. “The funding is to prioritize work that addresses pressing issues of our time, and to fund under-resourced ideas and communities that might not meet the larger institutional radars,” said Kalaija Mallery, operations and programs manager for the Luminary. ....