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Lauren Brown, host and producer of St. Louis Public Radio’s We Live Here podcast, received a 2021 RTDNA National Murrow Award for her role as host and a producer of the audio documentary, “Black at Mizzou: Confronting Race on Campus.”

Dear President Choi, We are an anonymous collective of students that have watched the administration of this university ignore our voices for over 100 years. This extends far past your time as UM System president, but we are calling upon you to bring an end to it now. MU moves to address problems at a glacial pace, if at all. It is time that student voices are not just heard, but are put at the forefront of every decision affecting our well-being. On March 5, 2021, we placed signs on campus lan...

MU student arrested by MU police for drunk misconduct and other allegations. (MU) University of Missouri (MU) police arrested 19-year-old Cal Gerhardt early Thursday morning after he allegedly both harassed fellow students and used a racial slur. Police reportedly found and intoxicated Gerhardt yelling outside the door of two students in a campus residence hall. According to a statement released by Bill Stackman, vice chancellor for Student Affairs, police charged Gerhardt with first degree har...

It’s really twisted to read the lead in a story that focuses on a white actor who has been portraying Thomas Jefferson for more than three decades in the current political moment. The lack of creativity and inability to read the meta-narrative of anti-Blackness amid the frequent interruptions of Black death is a stunning act of tone-deafness. How is it that in 2020, journalists are still centering a historical narrative about Thomas Jefferson, alongside his extortion and exploitation of Bl...