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Can a Segregated City Get Serious About Equity?
The mayor of St. Louis only has weak official powers. Tishaura Jones says she won t let that stop her from reshaping the city.
July 21, 2021 •
David Kidd The concrete slabs and steel frames are just starting to come in, but you can already get a sense of how massive the project will be. The new home for a federal agency, the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA), is the largest development in the history of St. Louis a million square feet at a cost of $1.7 billion.
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On Easter Sunday, about 60 people incarcerated at the St. Louis City Justice Center (CJC) jail in downtown St. Louis escaped from their cells and joined together in an uprising to demand their day in court and improved conditions inside the jail amidst the deadly pandemic. It was the second major uprising at the CJC since February, and at least the fourth coordinated protest there in the last five months. Across the country, the pandemic has catalyzed a year of unprecedented unrest inside jails and prisons. Researchers at Perilous Chronicle reported in November that there had been 119 acts of collective resistance in just the first 90 days of Covid-19 at facilities in the United States