To understand the history of St. Louis’s bricks is to unearth systems of power, economy, dispossession, decline, and manifest destiny; the storybook decorative brickwork we see today becomes a tale as complex—and as sinister—as American history itself.
My city has also not been particularly adept at acknowledging its sins, past or present, let alone attempting to atone for them.
If the City Museum was a tribute to industrial repurposing, Cementland was meant to be its pinnacle.
“By the hoboes, for the hoboes, of the hoboes.”
In Ohio, local advocacy groups are using low-cost sensors to gather information.
Stories on climate change, industrial legacies, and planning for a just future.
Honoring Black joy and freedom struggles in the Rust Belt.
In 1993, the Mississippi River destroyed the town of Valmeyer, Illinois. So residents moved it a mile uphill.
"My father was the grandson of Mississippi slaves, and the son of a thrice-married and divorced mother who had cleaned white peoples’ homes and cared for their children in two states by the time they settled in St. Louis in 1929."
By Sarah Macaraeg Photo above by Carolina Hidalgo for University of Missouri-St. Louis, St. Louis Public Radio This May, hours [...]