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Constructions of Home
I came into college equipped with posters, fairy lights, the DC flag, and pictures of friends and family. I had all the ingredients to construct my dorm room into a home, and yet that home evolved differently than I could have imagined—gradually, and also in leaps. Each time I return to my dorm I bring…
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St. Louis Education Inequality: Normandy
North St. Louis received national coverage following the death of Michael Brown. Since then, however, the area has been largely ignored by the national media. This area includes the St. Louis County city of Normandy, which contains the school district that Brown graduated from. The district had lost its accreditation in 2013, before the shooting,…
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St. Louis’ Legacy as An Asylum for Refugees
One winter afternoon in 1995, fifteen and a half-year-old Hedija went down to the river by her house to do her family’s washing. Like other rural Bosnians, she always did her laundry by hand. Hedija’s baby was by her side when, suddenly, she heard the noise of a bomb falling overhead. She knew from it’s…
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Ferguson and the Fight for 15
The McDonald’s on West Florrisant Avenue in Ferguson became a notorious corner of a notorious city for a violent altercation between journalists and over-militarized police during the protests of mid-August. But the Ferguson McDonald’s has also come to symbolize something deeper than just confrontations between cops and civilians: the emergence of a new labor-civil rights…
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False Narratives in Ferguson
BY MAX HANDLER It has been nearly a week since prosecutor Bob McCulloch announced what that the grand jury had decided not to indict Officer Darren Wilson. Before the words were even out of his mouth (literally, as USA Today had already reported that there would be no indictment) journalists began their work on the think…
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Rubbing Salt in Our Wounds
BY BILLIE MANDELBAUM On the evening of November 24, I gathered together with students and community members outside the St. Louis County Prosecutor’s Office to await Prosecutor Robert McCulloch’s announcement of the Missouri’s grand jury decision on whether or not to indict police officer Darren Wilson in the fatal shooting of unarmed black teenager Michael…
