All are invited to an unveiling of a memorial being planned for Archer Alexander, who was formerly enslaved in St. Charles and escaped via the Underground Railroad to St. Louis, in part through the assistance of WashU co-founder William Greenleaf Eliot and his wife Abigail Adams Cranch. On Sunday, April 14, 2024, at 3:30 pm at the U.S. Grant National Historic Site (7400 Grant Road) the St. Louis Arts Chamber of Commerce will share the proposed sculpture by renowned artist Abraham Mohler that will be placed at the St. Peters UCC Cemetery, where Alexander is buried in an unmarked grave, to preserve and honor his remarkable story. 

Join the Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity & Equity (CRE2) for a lecture and discussion with Walter Johnson, author of The Broken Heart of America: St. Louis and the Violent History of the United States (2020) which was a finalist for both the Los Angeles Times prize for History and the National Circle Book Critics award for Nonfiction. Johnson is a founding member of the Commonwealth Project, which brings together academics, artists, and activists in an effort to imagine, foster, and support revolutionary social change, beginning in St. Louis. Reception to follow.