Written by Robin Knowles 03/09/1992
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There’s a deeply haunting image floating around the internet of a street scene in Saint Louis’s “Deep South” neighborhood in 1998. It is of a woman with a stroller being pushed by her teenage son who looks terrified. It was taken by Robin Knowles and shows an impoverished area in which African Americans still live.
“This is a place where people actually live…
Written by Eric Chimber 9/23/1997
Paul's story is, in a way, in the wrong direction. The book's central theme is that black Americans, and not everyone, is a member of society as we know it.
The book itself features an array of white narratives — many of which are rooted in traditional history and are not connected to black history and racism. For example, in the book's most prominent, the protagonist, Jesse Black: "An older black man, with a slicked back ...
Saint Louis, The New "Garbage City"
Written by Sarah Kansty 10/06/1997
“It might be an accident,” she said.
St. Louis Public Radio's Jo Mannies talked with the grandson of a woman who had an infection after putting her garbage out by the curb.
Saint Louis resident Karen Hartigan is sick after putting her garbage out early Tuesday morning. She got rid of garbage by putting it into a large garbage can in her driveway. The trash then got wet and began to decompose. It got out of control and covered...
Written by Paul Ecar 12/23/1998
A man was arrested after he assaulted two officers outside a bank, authorities said. The two men were walking down a street in northeast Baltimore when they were accosted by a man who was cursing and yelling at them and began . When the officer tried taking him into custody, the man grabbed the arm and attempted to pull him over, said police Lt. Thomas A. Bohn. "He was trying to shake the police officer," Bofn said Wednesday. . When I first saw this on TV, I thought it must be some sort of ancient Egyptian temple ritual, except that it had no taurochs, no lions, nothing. No taphyshema. Just two thugs, one dressed in full body armor, walking...
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