Wednesday, December 12, 2012
The Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts joins forces with community and civic leaders to discuss the implications of the BBC News story on the “Delmar Divide."
The Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts is hosting a community conversation and panel discussion inspired by the BBC News story about Delmar Boulevard as a racial and economic dividing line in St. Louis. The video, titled “Crossing a St. Louis Street that Divides Communities” and produced by BBCreporter and video journalist Franz Strasser in March 2012, will be screened at the event. Strasser will be in attendance and will participate in the event. Strasser talked to residents, business owners and pastors on both sides of the street about why things are the way they are. See his video here. A panel discussion on ways to engage the community will follow the screening and will be moderated by Tabari Coleman, project director of the Anti-…
Wednesday, December 5, 2012
The Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts joins forces with community and civic leaders to discuss the implications of the BBC News story on the “Delmar Divide."
The Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts is hosting a community conversation and panel discussion inspired by the BBC News story about Delmar Boulevard as a racial and economic dividing line in St. Louis. The video, titled “Crossing a St. Louis Street that Divides Communities” and produced by BBC reporter and video journalist Franz Strasser in March 2012, will be screened at the event. Strasser will be in attendance and will participate in the event. Strasser talked to residents, business owners and pastors on both sides of the street about why things are the way they are. See his video here. A panel discussion on ways to engage the community will follow the screening and will be moderated by Tabari Coleman, project director of the Anti-…
Thursday, March 15, 2012
The British news magazine looks at the racial divide on either side of University City's Delmar Blvd.
University City and the vibrant Delmar Loop often make the national news, but it's not every day that the international media comes to town. Rarer still when that news outlet covers a story that is uniquely homegrown. BBC News Magazine's Altered State column recently took a look at the 'Delmar Divide" and how one of University City's biggest boulevards has come to be known as a dividing line in St. Louis. The BBC's Franz Strasser talked to residents, business owners and pastors on both sides of the street about why things are the way they are. See his video here. Strasser cites a Manhattan Institute study, which terms St. Louis as one of the most segregated cities in the United States.
James Love
12:37 pm on Wednesday, December 5, 2012
As a 59 year old Black man, St Louis has always been racially divided. There's been some progress, but the overtones of racism continue today. The LOOP was once open to all. It was place for the progressive minded. Now it appears to have gone corporate and practices racial profiling toward Black people specifically. Look, the best way to deal with fears is to face them. Most of my Black friends … more ›