Meet the new director shaping Black history at the Missouri Historical Society

Meet the new director shaping Black history at the Missouri Historical Society

Author: St. Louis Public Radio February 20, 2026 Duration: 19:10
Inside the Missouri History Museum’s “Mill Creek: Black Metropolis” exhibit, a once-thriving Black neighborhood erased by urban renewal comes back into focus. That’s where STLPR race, culture and identity reporter Andrea Henderson talked with Lyah LeFlore-Ituen, the new director of the Missouri Historical Society’s African American History Initiative. They discussed why Mill Creek’s story — and Black history more broadly — is foundational to St. Louis.

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