Episodios

  • Legal Roundtable tackles universal basic income lawsuit, Bar:PM crash, more

    Legal Roundtable tackles universal basic income lawsuit, Bar:PM crash, more
    Jun 26 2024
    The City of St. Louis faces a lawsuit over its universal basic income program. The program gives $500 a month to lower-income families chosen by a lottery, but lawyers with the Holy Joe Society argue that violates the state constitution's requirement that public funds can’t go to private individuals. This month’s Legal Roundtable convenes to analyze the merits of the lawsuit. Attorneys Susan McGraugh, Arindam Kar and Dave Roland also discuss a lawsuit brought by the owners of Bar:PM after police crashed an SUV into their bar, why the Supreme Court rejected Missouri’s case alleging government officials pressured social media companies, and more.
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    49 m
  • Queer Writes centers writing and storytelling from St. Louis LGBTQ creatives

    Queer Writes centers writing and storytelling from St. Louis LGBTQ creatives
    Jun 25 2024
    Recognition and acceptance is hard to come by for many marginalized groups. Yet, when such groups reach a certain degree of visibility, they often face another challenge: being viewed as a monolith. Queer Writes aims to push against preconceptions by celebrating the diversity of LBGTQ+ writers in St. Louis. Program creator Joan Lipkin and actor Michael Kearns talk about the program and preview an upcoming Queer Writes event at the Missouri History Museum.
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    37 m
  • Meet the St. Louisan named first woman on U.S. Paralympic Wheelchair Rugby team

    Meet the St. Louisan named first woman on U.S. Paralympic Wheelchair Rugby team
    Jun 25 2024
    Since wheelchair rugby’s debut in the 1996 Paralympics, Team USA has only had male players — until now. At this summer’s competition in Paris, the American team’s roster will include its very first female player: St. Louis University Assistant Professor Sarah Adam. Adam shares how she’s training for intense competition at the Paralympics this summer and what it means to represent her country, and women, as an elite athlete.
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    21 m
  • How the Ferguson Uprising changed the way we consume and create media

    How the Ferguson Uprising changed the way we consume and create media
    Jun 24 2024
    In 2014, video of police violence in New York and of protests in Ferguson changed what we see in mainstream media. Eric Deggans, NPR TV critic and media analyst, discusses the effects footage of the Ferguson Uprising had on what makes the news, and people’s expectations — as consumers, contributors and creators — of various media forms.
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    27 m
  • The Office of Violence Prevention ups their game with more funds to community organizations

    The Office of Violence Prevention ups their game with more funds to community organizations
    Jun 24 2024
    When Wil Pinkney took the helm of the newly formed Office of Violence Prevention for the City of St. Louis, he recognized that addressing crime requires a holistic, community-based approach. By fostering relationships with neighborhoods and community organizations that are already connected to young people, Pinkney believes the city can better address the root causes of violence. He shares the summer programming his office has been able to support and lessons they’ve learned along the way.
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    23 m
  • NPR’s Sarah McCammon explores alliance between evangelicals and Trump in bestselling book

    NPR’s Sarah McCammon explores alliance between evangelicals and Trump in bestselling book
    Jun 21 2024
    NPR political correspondent Sarah McCammon grew up in a deeply evangelical family near Kansas City in the ‘80s and ‘90s. Later on, when she was assigned to cover Donald Trump during the 2016 presidential campaign, her life experiences helped inform her professional career. In conversation before a live audience in STLPR’s Community Room, Jason Rosenbaum talks with McCammon about her new book, "The Exvangelicals: Loving, Living, and Leaving the White Evangelical Church."
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    50 m
  • Shannon Lee shares the 'martial arts as life' teachings of her father Bruce Lee

    Shannon Lee shares the 'martial arts as life' teachings of her father Bruce Lee
    Jun 20 2024
    Fifty years after his death, Bruce Lee’s status as one of the world’s most influential martial artists endures through his work as an actor and his philosophical teachings. In her 2020 book “Be Water, My Friend,” Lee’s daughter Shannon Lee speaks to principles that guided her father’s life as well as her own. She joined host Elaine Cha for a conversation before a live audience, taped in March 2024 at the Duane Reed Gallery in St. Louis.
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    50 m
  • How St. Louis is part of the historic solidarity between Black and Palestinian American activism

    How St. Louis is part of the historic solidarity between Black and Palestinian American activism
    Jun 18 2024
    Black American activists have expressed solidarity with Palestinian activists in the months since the war in Gaza began in October of 2023. In St. Louis, the relationship between Black and Palestinian American activists strengthened notably in 2014, after Michael Brown, Jr. — a Black teenager — was fatally shot in Ferguson, Missouri by then-Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson. But the connection between the two marginalized groups started well before then — and has evolved over the decades. St. Louis University Professor Chris Tinson shares the long history of Black and Palestinian solidarity alongside St. Louis activists Ohun Ashe and Omar Badran.
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    35 m