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5:48 pm
Mon June 20, 2011

Historic Lewis Place neighborhood to receive $1M in storm aid

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Lewis Place entry arch, designed in 1890
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St. Louis is freeing up $1 million dollars to fund repairs to a historic north side neighborhood damaged in last year’s New Years Eve tornado.

The storm damage in St. Louis was not enough to qualify for federal disaster aid.

City officials announced on Monday that uninsured property owners on Lewis Place could qualify for up to $30,000 for repairs.

The storm damaged roughly 150 buildings on Lewis Place, a site know for its lush green median and historic footnote in St. Louis’ Civil Rights struggle.

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Civil rights documentary
9:14 am
Wed February 23, 2011

Sixth-graders produce civil rights documentary

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Sixth-graders taught by Haliday Douglas at City Academy, a private school in north St. Louis, produced a documentary about the civil rights movement in St. Louis.
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St. Louis alderman Freeman Bosley Sr. speaks to 6th graders at City Academy. Bosley, a longtime civil rights activist and the father of the city's first black mayor, was one of the subjects of a documentary shot and edited by the 6th graders.
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City Academy 6th grade teacher Haliday Douglas helps a student prepare to interview Norman Seay, who helped found the St. Louis chapter of the Congress of Racial Equality and spent 90 days in jail for his role in the Jefferson Bank protest
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Sixth graders at City Academy interview Beth Louis, the granddaughter of Branch Rickey. As general manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers, Rickey signed Jackie Robinson to a major league contract, breaking the color barrier in baseball.
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On Wednesday, students at the City Academy, a private school in north St. Louis, will have a chance to view a civil rights documentary shot and edited by their schoolmates.

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3:56 pm
Wed December 15, 2010

History, comedy, and baseball meet in Bobby Norfolk's "Shadowball"

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Bobby Norfolk at St. Louis Public Radio
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Bobby Norfolk was driving somewhere in 2009 when NPR's Fresh Air stopped him in his tracks.  He remembers the interview with author Larry Tye as "the most compelling hour of listening" he's ever experienced. Tye's biography of Negro League pitcher Satchel Paige started Norfolk on a journey that's culminated in his latest one man show,  Shadowball: The Negro Baseball Leagues.

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