It was August three years ago. The U.S. military was pulling out of the Afghanistan capital. Tens of thousands of Afghans had gathered at the Kabul International Airport, hoping desperately to get on a military flight to the U.S. But as the throngs pushed, thousands were separated from their families.
There is a part of Busch Stadium history that Proudie only recently learned about, a dark history linked to the building that was so dear to her. Historians say some of St. Louis’ most notorious slave prisons — known as the Lynch slave pens — sat near the intersection of South Broadway and Clark Avenue, where the new Busch Stadium, Ballpark Village and the InterPark Stadium East garage are now clustered.
The River City Journalism Fund has learned that the Cardinals owners hope to make significant renovations to Busch Stadium in the next five years — and will likely seek public funding for the project, which they say is necessary to keep the stadium viable.
Before the centennial commemoration of Charles A. Lindbergh’s flight, it’s time to step back and examine our relationship with Lindbergh, understand his attitudes about Jewish people and reconcile what it means today that we aren’t questioning his legacy of antisemitism.
The idea that a landlord could get federal funds to house tenants and then not only do nothing to improve living conditions, but also soon file to evict those tenants, may seem appalling. But it was all legal under Missouri’s administration of the SAFHR program.
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The Archdiocese of St. Louis is considering a massive restructuring that will likely lead to the closing of many schools. I got my grade school education at Bishop Healy, now closed. I taught at Christ Light of Nations, now closed. These closures along with many others across the region have left an open wound.
Ebony Smith-Thomas’s health issues may be an example of environmental racism.
School leaders are facing increasing pressure to address racial disparities even as they struggle to open schools in the midst of the pandemic. Can they do both?