Unfiltered opinion and unfettered curiosity from hosts Umar Lee and Stefene Russell makes St. Louis Speaks the best new podcast in town. St. Louis Speaks brings to ear regular guests including local politicians, musicians, media personalities on a variety of local topics.
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Host Umar Lee talks by phone with "Mama Cat" a community activist and the official chef of the Ferguson movement. Mama Cat (Cathy Daniels) founded the group Pot Bangerz which has worked to feed, clothe and humanize those which society has chosen to make invisible, the unhoused. Potbangerz will be hosting their 3rd Annual Neighbors United Holiday Di…
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Host Umar Lee talks with friend of the podcast, Richard Reilly. Richard talks about a range of topics with Umar including marijuana legalization, socially engaged art projects and photography--including his recent donation to the Missouri History Museum of thousands of his images taken during protest actions following the murder of Mike Brown in Fe…
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Host Umar Lee chats with Marissa and Brian Southards about everything from life after Ferguson to their family art studio, blending portrait photography and traditional graphic/hand drawn artwork.Por Mark Loehrer
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Episode 61: Francis Horton, "A Hell of A Way to Die Podcast" Co-Host
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Umar Lee chats with Francis Horton of Carondelet about growing up in north county, joining the military and seeing the world! Beyond cliche, the conversation is rich in discussion of foreign policy, how the military prepares troops for interactions with people of other cultures (they don't!) and what Francis' podcast, A Hell of A Way to Die, is all…
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Host Umar Lee chats with documentary filmmaker, Alana Flowers about her upcoming film "The Kinloch Doc" which will be screened August 15th at the Grandel (Hosted by Arch City Defenders).Por Mark Loehrer
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Episode 56: Veteran St. Louis Publisher, Charles Klotzer
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Charles Klotzer, longtime free-speech activist and holocaust survivor joins host Umar lee on the St. Louis Speaks Podcast (available thru Spreaker). At 93, Klotzer has a lot to reflect on, from his family's flight out of Nazi Germany and settlement in a Jewish ghetto in Shanghai, to his storied publishing career in St. Louis.…
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Stef Russell sat down with Belt Magazine founder Ann Trubek and St. Louis (Kirkwood) native, Ryan Lee Schuessler, editor of Belt's St. Louis Anthology for a great podcast. Stef leads listeners on a spoiler free exploration of some of the poems and short stories from the Anthology, Kinloch to Little Bosnia.…
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Episode 48: Historian Walter Johnson, The Centrality of St. Louis in American Social History
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Guest host Stef Russell returns with a fascinating discussion with Harvard Professor Walter Johnson. The topic of the discussion is Johnson's new book (due to be released Spring 2020) which places St. Louis at the center of social upheaval and grassroots revolution in America from William Clark to Michael Brown.…
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BetterTogether For Whom? Panel Discussion of Proposed City/County Merger
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Host Umar Lee talks with a panel of city residents who are hesitant to embrace the proposed BetterTogetherSTL merger of St. Louis County and St. Louis City. Panelists include Podcast regular and former city Comptroller, Virvus Jones, TEAMTIF co-founder Andrew Arkills, and ACS Data-Wonk, @stlrainbow. This is the first of several planned merger discu…
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Episode 46: Asad Dandia, Muslim Scholar
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Umar Lee discusses Brooklyn, American mosque culture, Muslim history and more with young Muslim scholar Asad Dandia.Por Mark Loehrer
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Umar Lee spoke with Florissant Councilman and Attorney Robert Parsons about his candidacy for Mayor of Florissant, St. Louis' largest municipality by population. Topics include policing, governance and the proposed St. Louis City/County merger.Por Mark Loehrer
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After looking at Pacquiao-Broner and the weekend in combat sports host Umar Lee gives his take on Covington Catholic, why all St Louisans should root for the Patriots, the MLK assasination and St Louis, and more.Por Mark Loehrer
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Host Umar Lee discusses the Congresswoman Rashida Tleib cussing controversy, other incoming freshmen, and the St Louis City-County merger from Better Together St Louis.Por Mark Loehrer
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Producer Mark Loehrer talks with St. Louis University archivist Drew Kupsky. Kupsky shares what the SLU archive has to offer researchers and the general public. This episode was previously published on the now defunct website.Por Mark Loehrer
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Episode 40: St. Louis Speaks Year End Special Live at the Royale
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Host Umar Lee interviews a number of 2018 year-end guests and gets predictions for 2019.Por Mark Loehrer
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Host Umar Lee hits the pavement in the Ucity Loop to talk to folks about what they think of the loop trolley. Business owners, young folks, old folks, folks who don't want to talk--what do they think of Joe Edwards' latest prize. Loop trolley or loop folly?Por Mark Loehrer
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Umar Lee discusses St Louis County prosecutors joining the St Louis Police Officers Association, True Detective,what keeps him going on and morePor Mark Loehrer
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Umar Lee discusses the execution-style murder of his mother in the Meacham Park area of Kirkwood. The legacy of Karen Arnold, grief, and the pursuit of justice. Updated with the remarks spoken by Umar Lee at his mother's funeral service.Por Mark Loehrer
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Umar Lee discusses St Louis, Trump, and more with author and Gaslit Nation Podcast cohost Sarah Kendzior. (Recorded 2 days before the murder of Umar's mother)Por Mark Loehrer
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Episode 35: MLS Special: Live At The Dam On Morganford
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We're talking MLS and stadium and whether it'll be the silver bullet to save St. Louis.Por Mark Loehrer
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Host Umar Lee talks about the recent passing of Ferguson protester, Palestinian activist and St. Louisan Bassem Masri. Umar returned to St. Louis this week for the funeral of Masri who passed on November 27th 2018Por Mark Loehrer
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Episode 32: Fetzer Mills Jr: John Doar & Rural TN Politics in the Age of Trump
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Producer Mark Loehrer along with guest hosts Tony and Emily visited Fetzer Mills Jr in his home in the small TN town of Ripley to talk everything from civil rights to rural politics in the age of Trump.Por Mark Loehrer
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Episode 31: Griot Museum Panel: Photographing Protests
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Umar Lee discusses Closings the Workhouse, Income Inequality, and Minimum StandardsPor Mark Loehrer
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The St Louis Speaks Podcast has featured several St Louis elected officials. We are non-partisan abd encourage an open discussion. We are interviewing Sen. Nasheed to discuss her background and life in St Louis, finding Islam, her history as an activist and protester, the current state of affairs in Missouri politics, and the president of the Board…
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Umar Lee discusses #CaneloGGG, #STL name change, Botham Jean, Julia Salazar in New York, liars, authenticity, and the recent protest of Deray McKesson during a presentation of his new book at Left Bank Books.Por Mark Loehrer
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Umar Lee describes what has taken him away from St Louis at various stages of his life and trials and tribulations in New York City, DC, Florida, Texas, and more. Always seeing the world as a St Louisan.Por Mark Loehrer
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Host Umar Lee sits down with City Museum director Rick Erwin for a conversation about everything Saint Louis.Por Mark Loehrer
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Host Umar Lee sits down with staff historian at the Scott Joplin House, Brian Cather. Cather and Lee discuss a range of topics from life in Texas to adjusting to life in St. Louis as well as, of course, the legacy of Scott Joplin.Por Mark Loehrer
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Umar Lee walked through the Cherokee neighborhood with Riverfront Times reporter Danny Wicentwoski and talked everything from Ferguson to coverage of the Eric Greitens scandals that rocked Missouri in spring of 2018.Por Mark Loehrer
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For this special episode of the podcast, host Umar Lee sat down with scholar Ezelle Sanford III, a William G. Bowen Fellow in History at Princeton who is working on his doctoral dissertation on Homer G. Phillips Hospital. Joining him for the discussion is friend of the podcast, former comptroller and alderman, Virvus Jones. Ezelle provides an excel…
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Episode 20: Panel Discussion: "Guns And Ganja"
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Umar Lee hosts a round table discussion at Rise Coffeehouse in the Grove to talk Marijuana law reform and gun control. Guests include State Senator Maria Chappelle Nadal, Alderwoman Megan Green, State Representative Shamed Dogan and St. Louis City GOP official Robert Vroman.Por Mark Loehrer
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Episode 19: Journalist Abroad, Farrah Fazal
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Umar Lee sat down with transit enthusiast and activist Mitch Eagles in the Palm Trees on Cherokee Street. Conversation touched on Mitch's life in Iowa to his arrival in St. Louis and his infatuation with the 73 Carondelet bus.Por Mark Loehrer
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Episode 17: Aisha Sultan, National Syndicated Columnist
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Nationally Syndicated Columnist Aisha Sultan sat down with host Umar Lee at her home in St. Louis County to talk about a range of issues. Topics discussed touch on Aisha's work writing on issues of family and parenting to her experiences of Islamophobia both before and after the election of Donald Trump as President of the United States. Aisha also…
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Episode 16: Fmr. STLFD Chief Sherman George and Virvus Jones
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Umar Lee sits down with former fire chief Sherman George and former Comptroller Virvus Jones to discuss politics in St. Louis 1970-2007. Sherman George discusses his childhood and development from sharecropper in New Madrid, Missouri to Fire Chief in the City of St. Louis. Virvus Jones provides interesting commentary on some of the inside politics …
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Umar Lee sits down with Andy Karandzieff, owner of Crown Candy Kitchen in Old North St. Louis. Andy shares with Umar the story of his famiy as well as the legacy of Crown Candy and the Old North St. Louis neighborhood.Por Mark Loehrer
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Episode 14: Panel on Neighborhood Development In Stl
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Umar Lee sits down with a gathering of community voices to talk area problems and strategies for broad equity driven neighborhood development. Guests include Glenn Burleigh of TeamTif, Lucas Delort of Lutheran Development Corp, Fatima Muhammad of Hyde Park neighborhood association, Alderman Megan Green, Poet Sunni Hutton of Dutchtown South. This po…
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Umar Lee talks live from 2628 Delmar in Jeff Vander Lou about the muder of Boris Louioukine, cabdriver for Laclede Cab and issues a stern rebuke of those who say that crime and violence in St Louis City is just a numbers game.Por Mark Loehrer
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