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"Taking Responsibility: Jesuit Educational Institutions Confront the Causes and Legacy of Clergy Sexual Abuse," the Keynote Plenary Panel for our upcoming conference, is happening April 21st, 5:30pm, ET. You are invited to join us via Zoom. Registration: takingresponsibility.ace.fordham.edu/taking-respons…

In partnership with the Living Earth Collaborative , we will be hosting a panel titled "From Cahokia to Pruitt-Igoe: The History of Development, Environmental Justice, and Biodiversity in the St. Louis Region". 4/15 | 2PM | Livestream Livestream information: tinyurl.com/LEC-ER

This morning’s RJC EJI soil gathering in memory of Francis McIntosh, lynched by being chained to a tree and burned alive, April 28, 1836, St. Louis, Missouri

Researchers unearth the painful history of a Native boarding school in Missouri pbs.org/newshour/educa…

"Wash U taps database to find how the Mississippi River shaped the American slave trade" Our involvement in the SlaveVoyages (Slave Voyages ) Project was featured in a St. Louis Public Radio piece! Check it out here: tinyurl.com/cre2-SV-slpr

Flash flooding on my street

THREAD: I spent almost two years researching and reporting on DePaul’s forgotten history of discriminatory admissions practices and campus culture. For a full bibliography of my sources and what guided my reporting, read below. fourteeneastmag.com/index.php/2023…

I first came across photos of minstrelsy in some of DePaul’s archives when researching for a different story for 14 East Magazine. Blackface in college yearbooks is a disappointing but not surprising phenomenon, but this was different.

Many of the Vincentians were trained at St. Mary’s of the Barrens, which also was built using the labor of people that they, namely, Bishop Joseph Rosati, enslaved. In 2021, DePaul dropped Rosati’s name off two spaces on campus.

Read "Bound and Severed: Family Ties and Slavery in U.S. Catholicism" by Kelly L. Schmidt, Reparative Public Historian & Kevin Kuehl, Immigrant and Refugee Ministry Coordinator, Washington University in St. Louis Kelly L. Schmidt, here: bit.ly/3Vh7KAX