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The coronavirus pandemic brought normal court operations across Missouri to a sudden halt. Jury trials were postponed, other court proceedings moved to…
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Updated at 11:40 a.m. May 2 with the court's rulingA federal judge has denied a request to block the City of St. Louis from clearing a downtown camp of…
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Christine Rudolph woke up last week to an eviction notice taped on her front door. Three days later, she and her 15-year-old daughter were forced to leave…
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In 2015, a cohort of lawyers sued the city of Ferguson to stop municipal court abuses widely publicized after the killing of Michael Brown the previous…
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Five years ago this month, the nonprofit legal advocacy group ArchCity Defenders and its allies opened a new line of attack on what they viewed as the…
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Artists are no strangers to political activism. Through captivating installations, they’re able to visualize complex themes that resonate with movements…
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Four activist groups say they have found a way to close the St. Louis jail known as the Workhouse by the end of this year.The Close the Workhouse campaign…
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Ten years ago, a trio of recent law school graduates formed a nonprofit law firm. They called it ArchCity Defenders. And they had a novel idea: wraparound…
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Blake Strode, executive director of ArchCity Defenders, and Jacki Langum, the organization’s advocacy director, talk about the group’s 10th anniversary on…
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As a child, filmmaker and artist Jane Gillooly was oblivious to the fact that Ferguson was an all-white town during the Jim Crow era. Gillooly did not…