In recent months, Before Ferguson Beyond Ferguson, a nonprofit racial equity storytelling project, has been shining a light on the lives of people in 63106, one of St. Louis’s most vulnerable communities when it comes to the social determinants of health. In doing so we have partnered with St. Louis media to share these stories. St. Louis Post-Dispatch columnist Aisha Sultan has been writing about Tyra Johnson, who has been struggling to keep her children safe and her two eldest children’s education on track. Here is chapter two in that saga.
Click here to read chapter one.
These stories were produced in partnership with the Pulitzer Center.