We Live Here

Updated 12:15 p.m., Nov. 5 with audio from the town hall—More than 100 educators, parents and students came together Wednesday, Oct. 28, to talk about the…

During her St. Louis Public Radio Race, Culture and Diversity Fellowship, Emanuele Berry has reported in this city at a dynamic and critical time. As her…

A year of unrest and turmoil has yielded the beginnings of change in St. Louis — along with a whole lot of questions.How do we untangle the deep, gnarly…

As we reported recently, the public defender system in Missouri is underfunded and the attorneys say they are severely overworked. Just how overworked? We Live Here decided to break it down for you with this little state-by-state graphic that shows how much Missouri is spending compared to other states.

Since the shooting death of 18-year-old Michael Brown and the subsequent community unrest, dialogue about racial division in the St. Louis area became a…

When we started We Live Here we promised to take you along on the reporting process with us. Recently, I’ve been looking into the public defender system…

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 Here.