Northwest Coffee thrives amidst the COVID-19 pandemic
Celia Searles, Arts & Life Editor
September 17, 2020
Northwest Coffee owner Jason Wilson sheds light on his experience as a Black business owner, coffee expert, and what it’s like to run a business that has thrived in 2020.
SLU and the BLM Movement
Klaudia Wachnik, Contributor
September 14, 2020
Over the course of 2020, there have been several high profile instances of horrific police brutality against Black individuals that have brought the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement into focus. While the BLM movement has been around since 2013, originally founded by Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullor...
Confronting SLU’s History With Slavery
Conor Dorn, Associate News Editor
October 4, 2019
In 2016, SLU joined the Jesuits USA Central and Southern Province (UCS) in launching an initiative to confront a joint history of involvement in the enslavement of African Americans that dates back to the founding of the university. The initiative, called the Slavery, History, Memory and Reconcil...
Driving for Justice
Caroline Lipski, Staff Writer
May 1, 2019
What started as an old delivery truck has grown into a network of four “mobile museums” with the mission of driving the conversation surrounding culture, race and identity. These mobile museums, dubbed The Justice Fleet, "foster healing through art, dialogue, and play,” said Amber Johnson, Ph.D., asso...
Black AIDS Institute Speaks to SLU
Riley Tovornik, Photo Editor
February 26, 2019
Students gathered in the Center for Global Citizenship on Feb. 2 to listen to speakers Maxx Boykin and Lestian McNeal from the Black AIDS Institute. The speech was meant to raise awareness for issues plaguing black communities, such as over-policing, HIV criminalization, and the war on drugs. When t...
April 29, 2020
When the word park is mentioned, an image of a biking trail, playground set and picnic table pops into people’s heads. Although a park is a place where children can run...
April 15, 2020
An Empty Heart: SLU After the Outbreak
April 10, 2020
Pages Turning: The Art of St. Louis’s Streets
April 4, 2020