Lessons Learned in Ferguson and Their Implications for the Country
January 16, 2014
Lessons Learned in Ferguson and the Implications for the Country
4:00 PM
Filene Auditorium, Moore Hall
Co-sponsored by the Tucker Foundation
PP_Rev_Starsky_WilsonRev. Starsky D. Wilson, Co-chair, The Ferguson Commission; President & CEO, Deaconess Foundation
The Reverend Starsky D. Wilson is president & CEO of Deaconess Foundation, a faith-based grant making organization devoted to making child well-being a civic priority in the St. Louis region. Wilson earned a bachelor of arts in political science from Xavier University of Louisiana, master of divinity from Eden Theological Seminary and is pursuing the doctor of ministry degree at Duke Divinity School. Rev. Wilson is also pastor of Saint John's Church (The Beloved Community) in St. Louis. At Saint John's, Wilson has led congregational activism on myriad issues, including youth violence prevention, Medicaid expansion, public school accreditation, voter mobilization, and initiative petitions to cap predatory lending rates and raise the minimum wage in Missouri, while more than tripling worship attendance and financial stewardship in five years.
Rev. Wilson was recently selected by Missouri Governor, Jeremiah Nixon, to co-chair the Ferguson Commission, created to study and make specific recommendations for how to make progress on the issues raised by events in Ferguson. In other community leadership, Wilson serves boards for the United Church of Christ Cornerstone Fund, YMCA of Greater St. Louis, FOCUS-St. Louis, Teach for America-St. Louis and the Mayor's Commission on Children, Youth and Families, where he co-chaired the Regional Youth Violence Prevention Task Force. He is a member of the governing council for Washington University's Institute for Clinical and Translational Sciences and the Professional Advisory Council for the Brown School of Social Work. Under his leadership, the Urban League Young Professionals established St. Louis' Young Blacks Give Back initiative, which has provided thousands of community service hours to local non-profits over the
Authorities Capture Suspect Off Holtgrewe Road
A suspect who fled on foot into a wooded area off Diener Road early Tuesday afternoon was arrested a short time later hiding outside a home on Holtgrewe Road, west of Pottery Road.
As a precaution, all schools in the city and churches in the area were locked down while officers searched for the man.
The man, who was not identified, drove to the dead end of Diener and abandoned his vehicle after a deputy sheriff attempted to stop him for a traffic offense, according to reports.
In the initial report, the man was reported to be wearing camouflage and carrying a long gun. When he was finally arrested shortly after 1 p.m., he did not have a weapon.
Deputies were searching the area for the gun.
Sheriff Gary Toelke said the deputy attempted to stop the suspect on Highway A for careless and imprudent driving and the suspect fled to Pottery Road, then down Diener.
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Daniel Boone | Wikipedia audio article
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Daniel Boone
00:02:49 1 Early life
00:06:05 2 Yadkin River Valley, North Carolina
00:07:29 2.1 French and Indian War
00:08:41 2.2 Marriage and family
00:10:17 2.3 Cherokee conflict, temporary move to Virginia
00:11:51 3 Kentucky
00:15:52 4 American Revolution
00:22:45 5 Businessman on the Ohio River
00:26:03 6 Missouri
00:28:54 7 Death
00:31:32 8 Cultural legacy
00:33:23 8.1 Emergence as a legend
00:35:06 8.2 Symbol and stereotype
00:38:13 8.3 In fiction
00:39:55 8.4 Descendants
00:40:24 9 See also
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Daniel Boone (November 2, 1734 [O.S. October 22] – September 26, 1820) was an American pioneer, explorer, woodsman, and frontiersman, whose frontier exploits made him one of the first folk heroes of the United States. Boone is most famous for his exploration and settlement of what is now Kentucky. It was still considered part of Virginia but was on the western side of the Appalachian Mountains from most European-American settlements. As a young adult, Boone supplemented his farm income by hunting and trapping game, and selling their pelts in the fur market. Through this occupational interest, Boone first learned the easy routes to the area. Despite some resistance from American Indian tribes such as the Shawnee, in 1775, Boone blazed his Wilderness Road from North Carolina and Tennessee through Cumberland Gap in the Cumberland Mountains into Kentucky. There, he founded the village of Boonesborough, Kentucky, one of the first American settlements west of the Appalachians. Before the end of the 18th century, more than 200,000 Americans migrated to Kentucky/Virginia by following the route marked by Boone.Boone served as a militia officer during the Revolutionary War (1775–83), which, in Kentucky, was fought primarily between the American settlers and British-allied Indians, who hoped to expel the Americans. Boone was captured by Shawnee warriors in 1778. He escaped and alerted Boonesborough that the Shawnee were planning an attack. Although heavily outnumbered, Americans repelled the Shawnee warriors in the Siege of Boonesborough. Boone was elected to the first of his three terms in the Virginia General Assembly during the Revolutionary War, and he fought in the Battle of Blue Licks in 1782. Blue Licks, a Shawnee victory over the Patriots, was one of the last battles of the Revolutionary War, coming after the main fighting ended in October 1781.Following the war, Boone worked as a surveyor and merchant, but fell deeply into debt through failed Kentucky land speculation. Frustrated with the legal problems resulting from his land claims, in 1799, Boone emigrated to eastern Missouri, where he spent most of the last two decades of his life (1800–20).
Boone remains an iconic figure in American history. He was a legend in his own lifetime, especially after an account of his adventures was published in 1784, framing him as the typical American frontiersman. After his death, he was frequently the subject of heroic tall tales and works of fiction. His adventures—real and legendary—were influential in creating the archetypal frontier hero of American folklore. In American popular culture, he is remembered as one of the foremost early frontiersmen. The epic Daniel Boone mythology often overshadows the historical details of his life.