We Live Here

St. Louis Public Radio•stlpr.org

It’s been 10 years since Michael Brown Jr. was killed and the Ferguson Uprising that followed. To honor that history and reflect on where St. Louis is today, St. Louis Public Radio is bringing back the podcast “We Live Here” for a special season. In the show, host Chad Davis and producer Danny Wicentowksi reflect on some of the truths that Ferguson exposed, why there still is an open wound a decade later, and how community members continue to push for a better future.

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Episodes

We Live Here: St. Louis’ coded conversation about race and class

This episode of We Live Here is all about talking about race without actually talking about race.

Apr 05, 2015•34 min•Season 1Ep. 3

We Live Here: Growing up apart

Now 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 especially different races — seldom live next to each other, we ask the question: What does that mean for kids?

Mar 22, 2015•27 min•Season 1Ep. 2

We Live Here: 90 cities, one road and a whole lot of laws

Within St. Louis' system of municipalities, people are largely divided — white, black, rich and poor. They rarely live next to each other.

Mar 08, 2015•42 min•Season 1Ep. 1

We Live Here: Introduction

We didn’t want to just tell another story about the inequalities that exist in our region. We wanted to tear into the issues, break apart the theory from the reality, demonstrate how the systemic problems that plague our region play out in real people’s lives. And we want to know why we still have these problems — no matter how much academic research and scholarly material there is available to explain the existence of racial inequality, why does it still exist? And so, we came up with We Live H...

Feb 27, 2015•8 min

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