Prominent St. Louisians David Steward, founder and chairman of World Wide Technology, and U.S. Rep. William Lacy Clay, Jr., are among Ebony Magazine’s “Power 150″ list of the Most Influential Black Americans of 2008.

The honors were reported in the St. Louis Business Journal Wednesday.

Steward helms St. Louis-Based company that specializes in systems integration, working within the commercial, government and telecom sectors. In 2007, the privately held company reported $2.5 billion in revenue.

Rep. Clay chairs the House subcommittee on information policy, census and national archives, which maintains information and privacy standards and oversees the census bureau.

This is the 45th anniversary of Ebony’s “Power 150″ list. It will appear in the May issue of the magazine which will be on newsstands nationwide Monday.

Congressman William Lacy Clay, Jr. (D-Mo.) will hold a House joint oversight hearing on hand-held devices meant to collect data for the 2010 US Census that were deemed faulty.

Recently the Secretary of Commerce called for a major change in the design of new hand-held, electronic census gathering technology partly because of failures in the equipment. Because of these flaws, the cost of the 2010 census may increase by $2.2 to $3 billion.

Clay has pushed the department on its failures in the Field Data Collection Automation Program, created for the devices. The hearing will take place Wednesday at 2 p.m. in Washington, D.C.