Saint Louis Speaks Podcast

Umar Lee hosts a round table discussion at Rise Coffeehouse in the Grove to talk Marijuana law reform and gun control. Guests include State Senator Maria Chappelle Nadal, Alderwoman Megan Green, State Representative Shamed Dogan and St. Louis City GOP official Robert Vroman.

Umar Lee sat down with transit enthusiast and activist Mitch Eagles in the Palm Trees on Cherokee Street. Conversation touched on Mitch's life in Iowa to his arrival in St. Louis and his infatuation with the 73 Carondelet bus.

Nationally Syndicated Columnist Aisha Sultan sat down with host Umar Lee at her home in St. Louis County to talk about a range of issues. Topics discussed touch on Aisha's work writing on issues of family and parenting to her experiences of Islamophobia both before and after the election of Donald Trump as President of the United States. Aisha also has the most bestest dog in the world, Frankie.

Umar Lee sits down with former fire chief Sherman George and former Comptroller Virvus Jones to discuss politics in St. Louis 1970-2007. Sherman George discusses his childhood and development from sharecropper in New Madrid, Missouri to Fire Chief in the City of St. Louis. Virvus Jones provides interesting commentary on some of the inside politics behind the public debates around Sherman George and his role at the Fire Department

Umar Lee sits down with Andy Karandzieff, owner of Crown Candy Kitchen in Old North St. Louis. Andy shares with Umar the story of his famiy as well as the legacy of Crown Candy and the Old North St. Louis neighborhood.

Umar Lee sits down with a gathering of community voices to talk area problems and strategies for broad equity driven neighborhood development. Guests include Glenn Burleigh of TeamTif, Lucas Delort of Lutheran Development Corp, Fatima Muhammad of Hyde Park neighborhood association, Alderman Megan Green, Poet Sunni Hutton of Dutchtown South. This podcast was broadcast live from Rise Coffeehouse

Umar Lee talks live from 2628 Delmar in Jeff Vander Lou about the muder of Boris Louioukine, cabdriver for Laclede Cab and issues a stern rebuke of those who say that crime and violence in St Louis City is just a numbers game.

Host Umar Lee sits down on a rainy evening in St. Louis at the UCity Library with Areli Reyes, a young immigrant and Dreamer to talk everything from life in St. Louis as an immigrant to national immigration policy.

Host Umar Lee sits down on a rainy morning in St. Louis with Rick Bonasch of RISE St. Louis to talk development strategy and affordable housing in St. Louis as well as Rick's "coming to jesus" with Provel Cheese.