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Sinopse
A St. Louis-based podcast that keeps it real about race and class .. .for people somewhere on the woke spectrum.
Episódios
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We Live Here: What it means to be multi-racial
24/08/2015 Duração: 29minThis week's We Live Here podcast is something a little different. Recently, we've been looking at health and the way that toxic stress can impact...
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We Live Here: Ferguson, looking back and looking forward
09/08/2015 Duração: 28minA year after Michael Brown’s death, is the landscape around racial and economic disparities in St. Louis and beyond starting to shift? Can some changes already be seen?
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We Live Here: Health happens where we live; a school shows how
28/07/2015 Duração: 20minA single school can tell us a lot about the health of the community in which it exists. It can also tell us a lot about how systemic problems with transportation, food, housing and crime adversely impact impoverished communities and the health of the people who live there.
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We Live Here: Caring about health in the face of toxic stress
27/07/2015 Duração: 30minGiven that treating people is already a challenging task, imagine the extra challenge that comes from treating people who experience toxic stress — the stress that comes from constant exposure to poor housing conditions, lack of quality food or exposure to violence.
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We Live Here: Segregation is ‘literally killing us,’ health researcher says
28/06/2015 Duração: 16minWhile most people think of the "Delmar Divide," as simply a line that separates a mostly white community to the south and a mostly black community to the north, the reality is that the divide represents huge disparities in health.
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We Live Here: Finding your way in society after years in prison
14/06/2015 Duração: 31minA sliver of the 1.5 million people in federal and state prisons will remain in prison for life. But the vast majority are released at some point. How does someone adjust to life outside after spending years behind bars?
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We Live Here: How a debt to society can come with interest
31/05/2015 Duração: 23minEven pleading guilty to a misdemeanor can come with some other penalties. These are called collateral consequences, and they're the focus of this episode of We Live Here.
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We Live Here: Navigating the criminal justice system with a public defender as our guide
17/05/2015 Duração: 19minIn this episode of We Live Here, we explore the price and perils of our public defender system.
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We Live Here: The life and times of a police officer
03/05/2015 Duração: 38minOn this episode of We Live Here we introduce you to four police officers who discuss not only what life is like during the day-to-day grind of work, but also the question of whether or not race makes a difference for African-American officers in majority white police departments.
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We Live Here: Crime, cops and criminal justice -- a preview
20/04/2015 Duração: 10minWe Live Here spent the last several weeks ramping up to explore race in St. Louis and, specifically, how systems intersect with people to create a lot of the inequality in our region... and around the country. Now, we are moving from the general to the specific. We will spend the next several months exploring the criminal justice system.
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We Live Here: St. Louis’ coded conversation about race and class
05/04/2015 Duração: 33minThis episode of We Live Here is all about talking about race without actually talking about race.
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We Live Here: Growing up apart
22/03/2015 Duração: 27minNow that we've looked at the jigsaw puzzle of St. Louis County, we consider the children. In a place where people from different backgrounds — and especially different races — seldom live next to each other, we ask the question: What does that mean for kids?
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We Live Here: 90 cities, one road and a whole lot of laws
08/03/2015 Duração: 41minWithin St. Louis' system of municipalities, people are largely divided — white, black, rich and poor. They rarely live next to each other.
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We Live Here: Introduction
27/02/2015 Duração: 08minWe didn’t want to just tell another story about the inequalities that exist in our region. We wanted to tear into the issues, break apart the theory from the reality, demonstrate how the systemic problems that plague our region play out in real people’s lives. And we want to know why we still have these problems — no matter how much academic research and scholarly material there is available to explain the existence of racial inequality, why does it still exist? And so, we came up with We Live Here.