While reading one of the many online news reports about the unrest in Ferguson, I saw a photo which particularly caught my eye and heart.
I lived in St. Louis, Missouri from 1982 until 1993 and have always deeply loved it. Therefore I was shocked and my heart broken by the racial unrest taking place there since a black teenager was shot and killed by a white police officer in August of this year. Ferguson, where the violence occurred, is not far from downtown St. Louis. It's even closer to St. Louis University, a fine school from which I received a master's degree in Urban Affairs. Since I have been used to seeing St. Louis in the news in recent years mainly for scientific and medical achievements, it saddens me to think that the world is now developing an undeserved negative view of St. Louis and the people who live there. I'm sure no one ever expects to see a place in which they've happily lived making the national news due to a social tragedy.
While reading one of the many online news reports about the unrest in Ferguson, I saw a photo which particularly caught my eye and heart.
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Gayle Weinraub is a resident of San Antonio, Texas who has been passionate about
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