We Live Here
St. Louis Public Radio
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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Aug 24, 2015 • 29min
We Live Here: What it means to be multi-racial
This week's We Live Here podcast is something a little different. Recently, we've been looking at health and the way that toxic stress can impact...
Aug 9, 2015 • 28min
We Live Here: Ferguson, looking back and looking forward
A year after Michael Brown’s death, is the landscape around racial and economic disparities in St. Louis and beyond starting to shift? Can some changes already be seen?
Jul 28, 2015 • 21min
We Live Here: Health happens where we live; a school shows how
A single school can tell us a lot about the health of the community in which it exists. It can also tell us a lot about how systemic problems with transportation, food, housing and crime adversely impact impoverished communities and the health of the people who live there.
Jul 27, 2015 • 31min
We Live Here: Caring about health in the face of toxic stress
Given that treating people is already a challenging task, imagine the extra challenge that comes from treating people who experience toxic stress — the stress that comes from constant exposure to poor housing conditions, lack of quality food or exposure to violence.
Jun 28, 2015 • 16min
We Live Here: Segregation is ‘literally killing us,’ health researcher says
While most people think of the "Delmar Divide," as simply a line that separates a mostly white community to the south and a mostly black community to the north, the reality is that the divide represents huge disparities in health.
Jun 14, 2015 • 31min
We Live Here: Finding your way in society after years in prison
A sliver of the 1.5 million people in federal and state prisons will remain in prison for life. But the vast majority are released at some point. How does someone adjust to life outside after spending years behind bars?
May 31, 2015 • 24min
We Live Here: How a debt to society can come with interest
Even pleading guilty to a misdemeanor can come with some other penalties. These are called collateral consequences, and they're the focus of this episode of We Live Here.
May 17, 2015 • 19min
We Live Here: Navigating the criminal justice system with a public defender as our guide
In this episode of We Live Here, we explore the price and perils of our public defender system.
May 3, 2015 • 39min
We Live Here: The life and times of a police officer
On this episode of We Live Here we introduce you to four police officers who discuss not only what life is like during the day-to-day grind of work, but also the question of whether or not race makes a difference for African-American officers in majority white police departments.
Apr 20, 2015 • 11min
We Live Here: Crime, cops and criminal justice -- a preview
We Live Here spent the last several weeks ramping up to explore race in St. Louis and, specifically, how systems intersect with people to create a lot of the inequality in our region... and around the country. Now, we are moving from the general to the specific. We will spend the next several months exploring the criminal justice system.
