Student race summits continue to gain traction in St. Louis region

The high school students gasped when they recognized the man in the photo on the overhead screen. It was the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., delivering a speech 52 years ago in the very room at St. Louis University where they...

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High schoolers from around St. Louis work toward change at race summit

Students from 14 high schools sat around tables discussing race issues at a student summit Thursday when several from Ferguson’s McCluer High made a decision. They wanted to join their table with that of Parkway North, a majority white school at least 20 minutes away from where Michael Brown, a black teenager, was fatally shot by....

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