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Two state representatives call on the Cardinals to erect a monument to remember the slave pens near Busch Stadium

Two state representatives call on the Cardinals to erect a monument to remember the slave pens near Busch Stadium
Rasheen Aldridge and Trish Gunby have asked the baseball team to recognize the location of Lynch s Slave Pens.
Lynch s Slave Pens
The legacy of slavery in St. Louis has recently come back into the news with word that state representatives Rasheen Aldridge and Trish Gunby have written to the St. Louis Cardinals, requesting the commemoration of Lynchâs Slave Pens, which were located in the area of the current Busch Stadium. Reached via email, Gunby told me:
âAfter touring Rep. Rasheen Aldridge s 78th District last summer, I realized Busch Stadium was in it and together we talked about what I had learned and how we could build on the racial justice work he s done in the St. Louis region. Those conversations culminated with our press release asking the Cardinals to erect a monument.â ....

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Arts and culture leaders pen letter in support of sparing Sumner High School from closure

Arts and culture leaders pen letter in support of sparing Sumner High School from closure
The St. Louis board of education will vote Tuesday on a proposal to close 10 schools, including Sumner, the first African-American high school west of the Mississippi.
Sumner High School, ca. 1908
On Tuesday, members of the St. Louis board of educationÂ will vote on a proposal to close 10 schools within the school district. On December 1,Â St.Â Louis Public Schools Superintendent Kelvin Adams recommended a consolidationÂ plan that would close the following: Clay, Dunbar, Farragut, Ford, Hickey, and Monroe elementary schools; Fanning Middle School; and Cleveland, Northwest, and Sumner high schools. Enrollment numbers, the conditions of school buildings, and neighborhoodÂ population were factors in recommending the schools closing. A group of arts leaders, however, have signed a letter expressing support for keeping Sumner High School,Â the first African-American high s ....

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