Join us for ‘We Live Here’: Podcast kicks off year of exploration
We live here.Those are the words that we found ourselves saying in the months after Michael Brown was fatally shot last August by then-police officer Darren Wilson.Those are also the words we've chosen...
View ArticleWe Live Here: 90 cities, one road and a whole lot of laws
St. Louis County has 90 municipalities.It’s a fact we’ve heard casually thrown into news stories over the past few months, with little explanation as to how St. Louis County came to be a hodge-podge of...
View ArticleWe Live Here: Growing up apart
Subscribe to We Live Here on iTunes and SoundCloudNow that we've looked at the jigsaw puzzle of St. Louis County, we consider the children. In a place where people from different backgrounds — and...
View ArticleWe Live Here: St. Louis’ coded conversation about race and class
Subscribe to We Live Here on iTunes and SoundCloudLet’s be honest, talking about race can be tough — even nerve-racking for some. Often the conversation comes with trap doors leading to potentially...
View ArticleWe Live Here: Caring about health in the face of toxic stress
There are a few things we know about health care that are true for everyone. For one thing, it's expensive. It's a nearly $3 trillion industry in the U.S. Also, it's not easy to do well.
View ArticleWe Live Here: Health happens where we live; a school shows how
A single school is like an entire community.You've got the mayor, or principal. There is the general population, the students and their parents. There's a grocery store in the form of a cafeteria. And...
View ArticleStoryCorps: One photo reunites two Ferguson protesters
Following the shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson on Aug. 9, 2014, the world watched the aftermath of the shooting and the subsequent demonstrations and police actions through news coverage,...
View ArticleDozens arrested Monday night but no gunfire reported in what some call...
As night fell Monday, demonstrators returned to West Florissant Avenue in Ferguson to resume their vigil after Sunday night’s police-involved shooting. For several hours, things were calm. People...
View ArticleWe Live Here: What it means to be multi-racial
This week's We Live Here podcast is something a little different.Recently, we've been looking at health and the way that toxic stress can impact someone's ability to succeed and even to be healthy....
View ArticleSchool discipline isn't delivered evenly to black and white students. What...
Update:More than 100 educators, parents and students came together Wednesday to talk about the longstanding racial disparities in school suspensions in Missouri.The state has grappled with the issue...
View ArticleWe Live Here: Surviving school suspensions
There is this term that gets thrown around in education circles that we felt needs some exploring.School to prison pipeline.It sounds like schools are some kind of factory for future inmates, which is...
View ArticleCourt Orders State Of Missouri To Recognize Same-Sex Marriages
A Kansas City judge ruled Friday that the state of Missouri had to recognize marriages of same-sex couples that were legally married in other states.
View ArticleWe Live Here: Revisiting some great stories.
First a definition: Hiatus, noun, a break or interruption in the continutity of a work, series, action., etc.
View ArticleWe Live Here Rerun: A single school embodies the impact of good health
The We Live Here team is still on hiatus, creating new episodes for our second season. Meanwhile, we revisit one of our favorites from season oneA single school can tell us a lot about the health of...
View ArticleSt. Louis Public Radio Murrow Award Entry 2016: Overall Excellence
This is a compilation of some of the reporting the journalists at St. Louis Public Radio did during 2015. The stories are a mix of features, spots and podcasts. Some of the stories have been shortened...
View ArticleWe Live Here Rerun: Why wasn't race an issue for top administrators at Mizzou
We first aired this podcast about race at Mizzou last November, just after a series of protests at the University of Missouri's flagship campus led to the resignation of its system president, Tim Wolfe.
View ArticlePRNDI Submission for Best Newscast
This is St. Louis Public Radio's submission for best newscast, 2015.This aired on August 21, 2015 at 7:04 a.m.
View ArticlePRNDI entry for continuing coverage: Schweich's Suicide
This entry represents our ongoing coverage of State Auditor Tom Schweich's suicide and the fallout after.
View ArticleWe Live Here rerun: Being biracial in America
We originally aired this podcast on what its like to be multi-racial about six months ago. The project was the brainchild of Emanuele Berry, one of the founding producers of We Live Here, and it's...
View ArticleWe Live Here Rerun: Caring about health in the face of toxic stress
In this rerun of We Live Here, we examine the concept of toxic stress and learn how managing patients who experience it is challenging for doctors and for the patients themselves.
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