Mill Creek Valley

Vivian Gibson, the author of “The Last Children of Mill Creek,” stands in for a portrait on Monday, Oct. 18, 2021, at her home in downtown St. Louis, Missouri. Mill Creek Valley was 454 acres in the heart of downtown St. Louis that comprised the nation's largest urban-renewal project beginning in 1959. The predominately Black neighborhood was designated as “blighted” by city officials was torn down to make way for new developments.

Ending the racial wealth gap through reparations: Local policies or federal payments?

Chad Davis

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St. Louis Mayor Tishaura Jones is one of a dozen U.S. mayors calling for local reparations to address the racial wealth gap by ending racist policies.

Major League Soccer stadium district will host some monuments

Economy & Business

A new St. Louis greenway will honor Mill Creek Valley, a Black neighborhood demolished in the 1950s

Corinne Ruff

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A one-mile stretch of the Brickline Greenway along Market Street in downtown St. Louis will host an art installation commemorating the history of the former neighborhood.

Arts

In 'The Last Children Of Mill Creek,' Vivian Gibson Portrays A Vanished St. Louis Neighborhood

Sarah Fenske

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In 1959, the city of St. Louis demolished more than 5,500 housing units in the Mill Creek Valley neighborhood, which stretched from St. Louis University…

Former Mayor Raymond Tucker (at right) and then-civic leader and bond issue chairman Sidney Maestre look out over an area of Mill Creek Valley slated for clearance in this photograph from 1956.

Arts

St. Louis art project on a historic black community a finalist for national arts funding

Nancy Fowler

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Lois Conley of St. Louis grew up in Mill Creek Valley, where everything was in walking distance, and neighbors kept a close eye on each others’…

Josephine Baker, who grew up in the Mill Creek Valley neighborhood and lived much of her adult life in France, is the focus of an episode of “The Nod.”

Arts

‘An impossible human being’: St. Louis native Josephine Baker and her quest for a racial utopia

Evie Hemphill

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Josephine Baker is remembered for being many different things over the course of her remarkable life – a burlesque performer, a film actress, an activist,…

Arts

Remembering Mill Creek Valley, once home to 20,000 black St. Louisans

Evie Hemphill

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Gwen Moore can rattle off the names of all sorts of characters who once walked the streets of Mill Creek Valley, a historic St. Louis neighborhood…