ST. LOUIS — On Aug. 28, 2023, members of the Descendants of the St. Louis University Enslaved (DSLUE) non-profit organization launched a petition urging St. Louis University to atone for the ...

St. Francis Xavier Church after it was torn down, with an inscription showing where the “negro chapel” was located The flowing script of an 1847 Jesuit missionary ledger page shows a matter-of-fact ...

Descendants of slaves that were forced to build St. Louis University say the Jesuit school owes them more than $70 billion in reparations. The figure was calculated by economists, based on 70 people ...

Unfortunately you've used all of your gifts this month. Your counter will reset on the first day of next month. An entry in 1847 in an original ledger from Missouri Jesuits shows a “colored servant” ...

ST. LOUIS — A local partnership between the Jesuits and St. Louis University to research their history of slaveholding, including finding and reconciling with descendants, has been quietly downsized ...

(CNN) — There is wide gulf, Frederick Douglass wrote in 1845, between Christianity proper and the “slaveholding religion of this land.” One is “good, pure and holy,” the other corrupt and wicked, the ...