We Live Here | Season 2

We hear reports from two health journalists – St. Louis Public Radio's Durrie Bouscaren and KBIA's Bram Sable-Smith about the many, many many changes undergoing the healthcare system right now.

We bring you stories about the fastest-growing group of entrepreneurs: black women and we explore the huge gap between business opportunities this group is creating for itself and its longstanding lack of access to capital from the investment community.

Reporter Willis Ryder Arnold has been covering the issue at the city's Contemporary Art Museum for months. It centers on the artwork of a young, white man from Georgia whose pieces include images from black culture and media that are then digitally altered. The work has been shown before, but when it came to CAM this past fall, it ignited a fierce debate.

In a previous episode we found stark disparities in how black and white children are disciplined. Well, a lot has happened since then. The day after we ran that episode, public schools in the city of St. Louis joined only a handful of districts across the country and banned out-of-school suspensions for its youngest students.

Companies like Google, Twitter, and Facebook have all been called out for their mostly white and male staff. And a lot of them have vowed to get better, though results have been mixed.

Do you remember the first time you learned about special clubs and cliques? With a historic Election Day rapidly approaching, we wanted to take some time to consider a much larger club. You could call it “Club Democracy” and consider voting its fundamental benefit.

We plant ourselves in Adams Elementary, a south St. Louis school with a serious mission: equitable education and opportunities for all of its 300 students. This simple and lofty-sounding goal is familiar to many educators, but hard to actually achieve. So what does it really take to do this?

The relocation of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency to north St. Louis has been heralded as a big win for the region. But it also meant relocating some 200 residents. St. Louis Public Radio’s business reporter Maria Altman has been covering the NGA relocation for months. As we resume the second season of We Live Here… Maria joins co-hosts Kameel Stanley and Tim Lloyd to take a closer look at what is being lost in the name of progress.

Our first live show! We teamed up with two local St. Louis orgs (UrbArts and Second Tuesdays) to bring you a night of live storytelling about race, class, poverty and power.