Harper Barnes

Harper Barnes, a former writer and editor for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, is the author of Blue Monday (Patrice), a mystery set among the gangsters and jazz musicians of mid-1930s Kansas City, and Never Been a Time (Walker), a history of the East St. Louis race riot of 1917.

By Harper Barnes

The Seeds in North County

By Laurie F. Maffly-Kipp

What is Christ the King United Church of Christ, then, and how do we understand its history and current form as part of a living narrative of urban segregation? Current members, committed as they are to the progressive political witness and focus on a ministry to the African-American community, are not just about that. The congregation claims all of its history: German, White, liberal Protestant, spirit-filled, and unashamedly Black.

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