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...When we were imagining the trip, we imagined that we’ll be sitting in, like, St. Louis, and it’ll just be: St. Louis, St. Louis, St. Louis??just soaking it all up,” Matt explained. “But it’s not like that. It’s just normal.” Andrew nodded. “There’s no great epiphany,” he said. “It’s not like there is some moment when you’re like...
When his friends became involved in politics, Gabe Moskof—a DJ known as Trackstar—resisted at first, saying he would rather focus on his music. But as St. Louis??s hip hop scene became more and more dominated by what Moskof calls “the Bush issue,” even he got dragged in. At the request of two national political groups, he helped promote a St. Louis event called Slam Bush, where hip hop artists rapped at a person in a George Bush mask as if they had actually gotten...
Missouri is one of a small group of states that will decide November’s presidential election. One of the biggest variables going into November is voter turnout, especially in St. Louis??s large African-American community. Black voters in Missouri typically vote at roughly half the rate of other voters, but when they vote they overwhelmingly side with Democratic candidates. This means the Democrats have a huge untapped resource that could turn the election. ACT has already shown that Missouri’s African-American population will vote if it is not forgotten. On primary...
...because of the way politicians have gerrymandered St. Louis??s political boundaries, many African-American areas are divided up so that no one precinct has an African-American majority or plurality. Because groups like ACT have to target precincts, not individual voters, this makes it very difficult to target African-American voters through traditional methods. Young voters, another untapped resource in St. Louis, are even more difficult to find. They frequently don’t have home phones, they are difficult to contact in door-to-door canvasses and they don’t listen to professional campaigners...
...City, the area that produced Nelly and boasts some of the best hip hop clubs in St. Louis, is one of the most segregated places in the country. Ron Gubitz, a white hip hop fan who teaches at a largely African-American inner-city high school, fears that St. Louis??s hip hop community doesn’t do enough to reach out to people like his students...