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Podcast: Come and Take It: The Eminent Domain Podcast
Episode: James Singer on Dr. H. Phillip Venable and "Reckoning in Creve Coeur"
Description: James Singer, a labor and employment attorney at the law firm of Schuchat, Cook & Werner in St. Louis, Missouri and winner of the Owners' Counsel of America's Crystal Eagle Award, joins the show today to tell the important and compelling story of Dr. H. Phillip Venable, who lost his home to a racially motivated condemnation action by the City of Creve Coeur, Missouri in the late 1950s. Mr. Singer's extensive research and community engagement played a large role in efforts that eventually led to the City publicly acknowledging and memorializing its history. Dr. Venable's story is that of an...