Kameel Stanley
ReporterKameel moved from Florida to St. Louis in fall 2015 to join We Live Here. She previously worked for several years as a reporter for the Tampa Bay Times, often investigating racial disparities in law enforcement and city government while contributing to the newspaper’s fashion blog. She ran a storytelling organization and a brunch club for women of color. She’s a Michigan native, a dog owner, a yogi and music enthusiast.
Kameel Stanley left the We Live Here podcast—covering race, class, power, and poverty in the St. Louis Region— in 2018.
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The truth is, America is segregated because it was designed to be, via a series of purposeful policies and government actions implemented in the past several decades. Richard Rothstein breaks it all down. -
Latasha Johnson's eviction case makes it to the state's highest court because of it's importance to tenants' rights. -
As punishment for police-calls to her home, Rosetta Watson was kicked out of her town. Watson is now suing the city in federal courts, with the backing of local and national legal and housing advocates. -
Tim and Kameel give you a preview of what is coming in the show’s fourth season, with an extra emphasis on the LIVE HERE part of We Live Here. -
In this bonus episode, We Live Here cracks open its vault and shares never-before-heard parts of an interview with Wiley. He gets into the fascination people have with a black artist painting white bodies; a concept he calls “cultural policing;” and the impoliteness of exclusion. -
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Decades of population loss and systemic disinvestment has left "The Ville" a shell of its former self. -
In this episode, hosts Tim and Kameel hand the mics to the community: Stories about black love, a woman who finds peace in her identity and spirituality, an outspoken politician who once struggled to speak for herself and three St. Louis artists — including a young poet, a country music performer and a singer-songwriter who are all grappling with the ideas of place and home. -
There have been near-daily protests in St. Louis following the September 2017 acquittal of a white police officer who killed a black man six years ago. And mounting allegations of excessive use of force by police officers responding to those protests. As all this pressure from the outside builds, we’re coming at the issue of police accountability from a different angle. -
Two women, a generation apart, sift through the scars of segregation and returning to a neighborhood that doesn't resemble what they remembered. -
As we’ve been collecting stories for you guys over the past few months, other people have been prodding us to tell our story. We share the nitty-gritty behind the show and how we do it together. -
People wanting to know if it was true that Missouri snatched back a wage increase from the lowest-paid workers in St. Louis. Short answer? Yes. But today’s show isn’t about that short answer.
