Discussion on the Delmar Divide Is Tonight
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-…
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 ›