In Heather McGhee's book The Sum of Us, she uses an anecdote/analogy of white community leaders closing public pools for everyone just to keep Black folks from swimming in them. Today, we close public parks just to keep unhoused folks from living in them.

This saddens me. What I saw was ppl who showed up Monday out of care & concern for human beings. And what I personally heard from DHS head ACP OTD, OTR/L that night was that the city did NOT have beds for everyone. I appreciated his honesty. But this rewriting of history is not ok.

“Justice is being served to people like me who really couldn’t get out because they couldn’t pay,” Donya Pierce told St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Read more about our $3.125 million debtors' prison settlement with St. Ann here: stltoday.com/news/local/cri…

A letter from The People's Plan Coalition on Encampment Sweeps and the Unhoused Bill of Rights.

Beautiful breakdown Jake Lyin’ Fields . We've seen so much apathy and hostility to unhoused folks, and a lack of political courage. If you're free tomorrow night, no better time to show your support!

Like many, I've struggled with precisely what to say & how to say it, but I know that love, peace & JUSTICE must be at the center. And I'm grateful to be part of an organization whose values & vision provide a powerful guide. Grateful to those leading the calls for a ceasefire.

James Baldwin on the student movement in his 1960 essay "They Can't Turn Back." Worth revisiting in light of the current panic about student activism. "The question with which [the students] present the nation is whether or not we really want to be free."

Please support my beloved ArchCity Defenders this #GivingTuesday. Your gifts help to make our work possible. And this year your donations are matched up to $15k!

Wow. They should be embarrassed. But we should be even more embarrassed that we keep giving them more money and power anyway.

Please read this beautiful report! So grateful for the care and intentionality that went into producing it.

STL, you spoke, and we heard you. What the people want to happen to the former Workhouse and land is OUT now. And, #ClosetheWorkhouse is back with these demands! It's not over until it's over. #closetheworkhouse #blacklivesmatter #forthepeople

ICYMI we are up & running in season 5 of Under The Arch Podcast. Please do yourself a favor & check out this amazing convo w/ Dara Eskridge from Invest STL!! She joins PUNMP FUN & I to talk community/economic development, neighborhood planning, NGA, Black joy & more! Such a treat

I didn't realize anyone was still taking this process seriously. Or pretending to. stltoday.com/news/local/cri…

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Don't be fooled. We stand with Cori Bush like she has stood with us.

Yesterday was a beautiful display of the community that emerged from tragedy in Ferguson a decade ago. My hope with this piece was to do justice to that community. All love to Mike Brown's family and thanks Boston Review for publishing. bostonreview.net/articles/the-f…