Despite the decades-long fight for school desegregation, America is, for the most part, still sending its white and black children to separate schools. Here in St. Louis, this angst over school segregation and integration never really went away. In fact, St. Louis is home to the longest running formal desegregation program in the country. In the latest podcast, we take you through its past, present, and experts' best guess for the future.

Dwindling but not dead: School desegregation in St. Louis

What's the Missouri legislature done in the two sessions since Michael Brown's death? A little, but not nearly as much as was anticipated in 2014, when Ferguson was in the international spotlight.

In this episode, veteran political reporter Jason Rosenbaum, who's covered the story the entire time, gives us a retrospective look at the last two years and talks about what may come next.

Rhetoric vs. Reality: Which is winning, post Ferguson?

In 2015, 188 people were victims of homicide in St. Louis. In this episode, we explore the Homicide's Wake series, based on the reporting of St. Louis Public Radio reporters Durrie Bouscaren and Rachel Lippman. They bring you a stories of those who have to cope and carry on in the wake of a homicide

Homicide's Wake: A 360-degree look at St. Louis' rising number of murders

In many cases, in many cities, Section 8 voucher-holders are still treated as pariah in the housing market — either by landlords who refuse to accept them, property owners who steer them to segregated areas, and a society that clings to racial and economic stereotypes.

Sectioned off: Subsidized, low-income housing in American

The We Live Here crew teamed up with local storytelling group Second Tuesdays and the nonprofit UrbArts for a night of storytelling on July 12 at UrbArts.

This week's podcast gives you a taste of some of the stories, and we've embedded audio below.

Live Show - I Live Here

The relocation of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency to north St. Louis has been heralded as a big win for the region.

 But it also meant relocating some 200 residents.

St. Louis Public Radio’s Maria Altman has been covering the NGA relocation for months.  

As we resume the second season of We Live Here, Maria joins co-hosts Kameel Stanley and Tim Lloyd to take a closer look at what is being lost in the name of progress. 

PC 31 Progress For Whom FINAL

Race, class, power, poverty. Systems and the people they touch.
We Live Here is a multi-faceted, multi-media project that we hope will shed some light on the very tangible racial issues that seemed to be at the heart of the unrest and protests that swept the St. Louis region — and eventually the rest of the country — during the last few months of 2014.