Podcasts Culture Out of the Blocks Out of the Ville, part 1

Out of the Ville, part 1

Published: Dec. 5, 2017, 10:24 a.m.

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We\\u2019re all taught that housing desegregation was a good thing, right? But if you talk to the old-timers in The Ville, they\\u2019ll give you a more nuanced story: They\\u2019ll tell you it was a gift that came with a curse. In its heyday, The Ville was the beating heart of black Saint Louis, with historic African American institutions like Sumner High School and Homer G Phillips Hospital.\\xa0Desegregation opened the floodgates for a mass-exodus from The Ville, and now the neighborhood is more than 60 percent vacant. \\xa0Out of the Blocks travels to the Ville for this special episode, produced in collaboration with the Saint Louis Public Radio podcast We Live Here and the neighborhood organization 4 The Ville.\\xa0This episode was made possible by a generous grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.

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