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Cori Bush lost her Missouri 1st District congressional seat to Wesley Bell in the Aug. 6 primary election. The district includes all of the city of St. Louis and most of northern St. Louis County.
August 9, 2024 marked ten years since Darren Wilson, a white Ferguson police officer, killed Michael Brown Jr., an unarmed black 18-year- old. Brown’s death sparked nationwide pro- tests and civil unrest, launching the Black Lives Matter movement into the national polit- ical force that we know it as today.
On the night of the primary election, Cori Bush hosted an election watch party. She, along with her supporters and staff at the event, hoped the event would be a celebration of her reelection: it, of course, was not. This is a story from the losing side.
Artist Sarah Nguyen stands in front of her work during the reception of her show that runs through Sept. 18 in the Gallery on the first floor of the Library at STLCC-FV.
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