Jim Kirchherr
Peace Concert
In June of 2010, a teen-aged refugee from Eritrea was shot and killed outside an apartment complex in St. Louis’ West End neighborhood. How did the community respond to the tragedy?
Language Option Presses Buttons
A lot of people don’t pay much attention to those automated phone options: press 1 for English; press 2 for Spanish. But Roni does.
No Debate Here
Sometimes when you want people to tell you how they feel about something, you need to take a little time before things really get going. But at the Franklin County Patriots’ Independence Day picnic, the folks we were talking to jumped right in.
“They Understand Us Better Than We Understand Them”
The comment came from an African American woman about the refugees who live in an apartment complex in the St. Louis’ West End neighborhood. She was talking about their language, but I think the comment might be applied more broadly.
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