Students, faculty, alumni and friends from Washington University in St. Louis gathered for the 28th annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Commemorative Celebration "The Prophetic Voice: A Time to Break the Silence - Social Justice and Progress are the Absolute Guarantors of Riot Prevention” at Graham Chapel on the Danforth Campus in St. Louis Monday, Jan. 20, 2015. Kimberly Norwood, Professor of Law, was the keynote speaker, and civili rights leader Norman R. Seay received the Rosa L. Parks Award. Audience members join Orchestrating Diversity performing the Black National Anthem.

Visitors gathered for the Missouri History Museum's 2015 MLK Family Celebration at the museum in Forest Park in St. Louis Saturday, Jan. 17, 2015.

Sheer Elegance No. 27 Fashion Show, themed "Fashiontron" and benefitting the Mathews-Dickey Boys' & Girls' Club, was held at The Chase Park Plaza Hotel in St. Louis Saturday, Dec. 12, 2015.

Stadia Ventures, a sports innovation hub based in St. Louis, recently sponsored four sports-based startups as part of a cohort to bring knowledge, skills, talent and funding to promising investments made by the firm. The Fall 2015 Cohort concluded with a Demo Day, where entrepreneurs pitched their offerings to investors at Busch Stadium's Redbird Club Thursday, Dec. 10, 2015. More about this project can be found on the St. Louis Post-Dispatch website: http://bit.ly/1SSdxmZ To license photos, please contact Sid Hastings LLC via the contact link in the menu above.

Members of the St. Louis Gateway Chapter of the Verterans of the Battle of the Bulge gathered for their monthly meeting at the Affton Elks Lodge Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2015. More about the group can be found on the Post-Dispatch website: http://bit.ly/1OEgEAR

Cardinal Ritter Senior Services offers assistance to organization by placing Foster Grandparents to help agencies working with young children. More about the programs can be found on the St. Louis Review website: http://stlouisreview.com/article/2015-11-05/foster-grandparent No photos from this assignment can be purchased online, please click on the contact tab above to inquire about accessing these photos.

Members of the Chesterfield City Council gathered for a Special Committee-of-the-Whole City Council meeting, to consider a censure of Chesterfield Mayor Bob Nation, Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2015. The mayor was censured on a 7-0 vote for his interactions with staff in July, 2015. More about the story can be found on the Post-Dispatch website: http://bit.ly/1Q6INjZ No photos from this assignment can be purchased online, please click on the contact tab above to inquire about accessing these photos.

Volunteers gathered at Manchester United Methodis Church to prepare used bice as part of the church's 16-year-old Bike Rehab Ministry Friday, Oct. 30, 2015. More about the program can be found at: http://bit.ly/1isDwVq

St. Louis-area residents gathered to mark the 50th anniversary of the opening of the Gateway Arch, part of the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial in St. Louis Saturday, Oct. 24, 2015.

Area residents gathered in Ferguson for a meeting introducing finalists for the city manager's position at the Ferguson Community Center in Ferguson, Mo., Monday, Oct. 26, 2015. More about the candidates can be found at STLToday.com (http://bit.ly/1N4RvgW) or at the Ferguson website (http://bit.ly/1k6Yr1l).

St. Louis-area residents gathered for the 2015 Share Walk for Remembrance & Hope at Frontier Park in St. Charles, Mo., Saturday, Oct. 17, 2015. Share, a national organization based in St. Charles, supports those whose lives are touched by the tragic death of a baby through pregnancy loss, stillbirth or in the first few months of life. More about the event can be found on the St. Louis Review website: http://stlouisreview.com/node/44467

Area residents gathered for an update on the Normandy Schools Collaborative during a Community Forum at the Normandy 7th-8th Grade Center in Normandy, Mo., Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2015. More about the event can be found at the Post-Dispatch website: http://bit.ly/1RcF69A

O'Fallon Brewery's recently-opened Maryland Heights facility includes a restaurant and bar in addition to brewing facilities and is part of a growing craft brewing community in the St. Louis suburb. More about the bar and restaurant can be found on the St. Louis Post-Dispatch website: https://bit.ly/2UUAAr2

Students, faculty and community members gathered for a Pope2Congress Watch Party at the Center for Global Citizenship at St. Louis University Thursday, Sept. 24, 2015. The group had coffee and doughnuts before Pope Francis addressed a joint session of Congress. For more about the event, please see the St. Louis Review website:

St. Louisans gathered at Kenrick-Glennon Seminary in Shrewsbury, Mo. Saturday, Sept. 20, 2015 for Papa Polooza, the local celebration of the Philadelphia World Meeting of Families and Papal Visit. More about the event can be found on the St. Louis Review website:

Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon (D) joined members of the Carpenters' District Council of Greater St. Louis and Vicinity at the Nelson Mulligan Carpenters' Training Center in Affton, Mo. Thursday, Sept. 10, 2015 to announce new, reduced workers' compensation rate for Missouri businesses. More about the governor, and his partnership with Missouri unions, can be found on the New York Times website: http://nyti.ms/1Mi7So8. Images can be licensed through the New York Times Syndicate: https://www.nytsyn.com/ or Redux Pictures: http://archive.reduxpictures.com/.

Conservatives from across the country gathered in St. Louis April 11-13, 2015 for Eagle Council XLIV, sponsored by the Eagle Forum, at the St. Louis Airport Marriott. For licensing inquiries, please see http://www.apimages.com/.

Project Semicolon, a non-profit movement dedicated to inspiring hope to those struggling with depression, suicide, addiction and self-injury, has resulted in many people opting to get a semicolon tattoo. Tattoo artist Ahmed Eldarrat applies a stylized semicolon tattoo to Naarah Pyscher, a power lifter and personal trainer, at Trader Bob's Tattooing in the Fox Park neighborhood of St. Louis Wednesday, Aug. 19, 2015. More about the topic can be found on the Post-Dispatch website: http://bit.ly/1J08Hx6

Union members and their supporters gathered for the 2015 Labor Day parade in downtown St. Louis Monday, Sept. 7, 2015. More about the event can be found on the Post-Dispatch site at: http://bit.ly/1KAOjKm

Parishioners crowd St. Catherine Laboure Parish in Sappington, Mo., for the start of the Parish School of Religion Monday, Aug. 31, 2015. More about the program can be found on the St. Louis Review website: http://stlouisreview.com

A bequest from the estate of Cathy Coughlin established the Cathy Coughlin Computer Lab in time for the 2015-16 school year at Queen of All Saints School in Oakville, Mo. Members of the sixth grade worked in the lab Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2015. More about the lab and the gift, can be found at:http://stlouisreview.com

Scenes from Ferguson, Missouri, at the one-year anniversary of the death of Michael Brown and the resulting Black Lives Matter movement protests. Photographed for Education Week, more information can be found on their website: https://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2015/09/16/one-year-later-ferguson-schools-poised-for.html

Dr Joseph Davis, Ph.D., became the superintendent of the Ferguson-Florissant School District July 1, 2015, overseeing a system that was roiled in the aftermath of the shooting of Ferguson teenager Michael Brown Jr. by former Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson Aug. 9, 2014. More about the district, one year after the death of Brown, can be found on the Education Week website at: http://bit.ly/1KqXR8D

Students, alumni, community supporters, faculty and staff gathered to dedicate the new wing of Rosati-Kain High School in St. Louis Sunday, Aug. 23, 2015. Students began using the new space the following morning, Monday, Aug. 24, with the start of the 2015-16 school year. More about the addition can be found on the St. Louis Review website: http://bit.ly/1i7jfoR

Students attending Lafayette Preparatory Academy, a charter school for grades K-4 in downtown St. Louis, gathered for the first day of the 2015-16 academic year Wednesday, Aug. 12, 2015. Please use this link to inquire about purchasing prints or licensing images: https://www.sidhastings.com/contact

Black Lives Matter protesters joined with family and friends of Vonderrit Meyers Jr. for a protest and march Saturday, Aug. 8, 2015, the 10-month anniversary of Meyers death following an altercation with off-duty St. Louis Metropolitan Police Officer Jason Flanery Oct 8, 2014. .

US Rep. William Lacy Clay (D-Mo.) delivered the keynote address for the 2015 National Funeral Directors & Morticians Association convention at the Renaissance St. Louis Grand Hotel Wednesday, Aug. 5, 2015. Rep. Clay addressed issues arising from the events surrounding the shooting of Ferguson teenager Michael Brown by former Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson. More about US Rep. Clay and civil rights, please see coverage on the St. Louis Post-Dispatch website: http://bit.ly/1NjkY6c

Roman Catholics from across the St. Louis area gathered at Sts. Teresa and Bridget Catholic Church in St. Louis Sunday, Aug. 2, 2015 for Mass Mob III. The event was part of a continuing effort to bring attention and worshipers to historic urban parishes in the city. More about the event can be found at:

Maryland Heights, Mo., resident Derek Tower, 34, is the 2014 "Big Buck Hunter" arcade game world champion. He captured the title in October at The Pourhouse in Minneapolis, and practices weekly at Syberg's Dorsett in Maryland Heights. More about Tower can be found at: http://bit.ly/1W3YGt5

Volunteers from the Latino Alliance Network, comprised of Hispanic employees of St. Louis firms including Wells Fargo Advisors, Edward Jones, AT&T, Boeing and Monsanto, gathered at St. Cecilia School and Academy in St. Louis for a volunteer work day Friday, July 24, 2015. More about the event can be found at: http://bit.ly/1LTye0i

Area residents gathered at Forestwood Park in Ferguson, Mo. Saturday, July 25, 2015 for the Convoy of Hope, a faith-based charity event offering health check ups, haircuts, career counseling, play areas for children, food for needy families and spiritual counseling. More about the event can be found at: http://bit.ly/1KBF3op

St. Louis-area residents gathered at the Pavilion at Lemay Tuesday, July 21, 2015 to discuss possible expansion of Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery, in south St. Louis County, onto land currently part of adjacent Sylvan Springs Park. More about the meeting can be found at: http://bit.ly/1CV5WAS

Families with divided loyalties, where one partner was a native of Japan and the other a native of the US, gathered at the Olivette, Mo. home of Gary and Mayumi Bollman Sunday, July 5, 2015 for a watch party during the final game of the 2015 Women's World Cup. The game pitted the US against Japan, with the US winning 5-2.

Citizens of Ferguson, Mo., gathered in 2015 to celebrate the Fourth of July with a parade on Florissant Road through downtown and a festival at January-Wabash Park. More from the event can be found on the St Louis Post-Dispatch website: https://bit.ly/3cwsv2n

In a poll of St. Louis-area workers, financial services giant Edward Jones was named best large employer by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. More about the story can be found at: http://bit.ly/1U0pGIL

Muslims from the St. Louis area gathered at Daar-ul-Islam Masjid in west St. Louis County near Ballwin, Mo. Thursday, June 18, 2015 to mark the start of Ramadan.

St. Louis Rams players, alumni and coaches gathered for the 2015 Coach Fisher & Friends Celebrity Softball Game at TR Hughes Ballpark in O'Fallon, Mo. Sunday, June 7, 2015. The game was a benefit for Backstoppers, Catch-A-Dream Foundation, The Snow Foundation, Mercy Ministries and The Wounded Warrior Project.

Habitat for Humanity of St. Louis hosted a dedication and blessing of new homes being built in the Tiffany neighborhood of Midtown St. Louis Thursday, April 24, 2015. The Rev. John Armstrong, SJ, led the blessing. More about the event can be found at: http://www.stltoday.com/lifestyles/faith-and-values/community-leaders-gather-for-blessing-of-new-pope-francis-home/article_a2f4ce8f-03b4-5784-a77e-4db96fc11d4e.html

St. Louis mayor Francis Slay and police chief Sam Dotson hosted a tour of the city's new Real Time Crime Center at St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department headquarters in St. Lois Thursday, April 16, 2015. More about the tour can be found at: http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/st-louis-police-networking-cameras-other-technology-in-new-effort/article_0dbcd12a-c710-5008-bf71-b0669b347646.html

Rosati-Kain High School student robotics team Sistamatik competes in the 2015 FIRST Robotics Competition at the St. Louis Regional at Chaifetz Arean on the St. Louis University campus Friday, March 20, 2015. Sistamatik is the first all-girl FRC team in the region.

Katie Bohn, a dance therapist associated with SSM Cardinal Glennon Children's Medical Center in St. Louis, works with patients Tuesday, Feb. 10. 2015. Bohn is one of the therapists involved in Drea's Dream, a national dance therapy program in hospitals and schools that uses movement to help children heal physically and emotionally. More about dance/movement therapy and Katie can be found on the St. Louis Post-Dispatch website: https://bit.ly/3fNaGOI And more about Drea's Dream can be found at: https://www.dreasdream.org

Supporters of Special Olympics Missouri gathered in Lake St. Louis, Mo., for the 12th annual Polar Plunge to raise money for the charity Saturday, Feb. 7, 2015. Coverage can also be found on the St. Louis Post-Dispatch website: https://bit.ly/3dG0sOc

The mid-century modern home of Tom and Shelley B. Smith in Ladue, designed by architect Meyer Loomstein and built in 1952, belonged to family friend Gertrude Haffner before purchase by the Smiths. More about the home can be found on the St. Louis Post-Dispatch website: https://bit.ly/2zEjh67

Students at St. Dominic High School in O'Fallon, Mo. hosted a "Souper Bowl" food drive Tuesday, Jan. 27, 2015, one of many in the Archdiocese of St. Louis, to help area food banks. More about the event can be found on the St. Louis Review website: http://stlouisreview.com/article/2015-01-28/souper-bowl-super

Baseball players, fans and journalists gathered at the Renaissance Grand Hotel in St. Louis for the Baseball Writers Association of America St. Louis Chapter's 57th annual Baseball Writers' Dinner Sunday, Jan. 18, 2015. Retiring Major League Baseball Commissioner Allen "Bud" Selig and former St. Louis Cardinal Alfred "Red" Schoendienst were among the award recipients. More about the event can be found at: http://www.stltoday.com/sports/baseball/professional/writers-salute-selig-who-salutes-cardinals-in-return/article_4acec84c-c3f5-528f-9be2-bc06eb2aac3a.html

Leaders and community members from across Missouri gathered at Harris-Stowe State University for the 2015 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Statewide Celebration Commission Kick-off Program for Missouri Saturday, Jan. 10, 2015. More about the event can be found at: http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/metro/education-holds-key-to-making-mlk-dream-a-reality-official/article_28459d14-c292-57c5-ad71-f462b61defc3.html