| No Images? Click here   Photo by Damon Dahlen/HuffPostToday we kicked off our Listen to America bus tour in the Gateway to the West! We met Morgan Griffin, 29, a tattoo artist at Iron Age Tattoo. She was born here, and has always come back after living elsewhere. "It's kind of like a rough city but it's still like people come above that. It's almost like a hidden gem," she said. "People on the coast will be like, 'Oh, where is Missouri?' or 'Where is St. Louis? Is that by Texas?' They don't really recognize it. It's almost like our own special thing that we have all this stuff going on here and people don't even realize it." If she could change one thing about the city, she said, it would be the way it's been portrayed in the media recently. "The last few years, there were a lot of race things going on. I think people think we're a lot more divided than we really are. We actually all really have each other's back in the city," she said. "I think the media makes it look how it really isn't. People think of it as super dangerous but I think any city you go to you can run into some dangerous stuff."  Morgan Griffin touches up a woman's tattoo on Tuesday, reassuring her client each time she winced in pain.  Illustration: Ji-Sub Jeong/HuffPostThree years after Mike Brown was killed in Ferguson, the St. Louis region is on edge again. HuffPost partnered with The St. Louis American to look at the state of law enforcement in the area.Plus: Check out activists gathering outside a civil rights exhibit at the Missouri History Museum. They were speaking out against President Donald Trump’s voter fraud commission. Photo: Wiley Price / St. Louis AmericanArtist Chris Green works with nonprofit Better Family Life to hang inspiring work on abandoned buildings around St. Louis. A new survey ranks the 10 happiest states in the nation. Did yours make the cut? Join us virtually on the bus! Ride along with our editor-in-chief, Lydia Polgreen, as she dispatches news from the road via Facebook Messenger.  Learn more about what it really means to be an American by signing up for our morning news brief.Did a friend send you this? Subscribe here. For more politics news, check out our HuffPost Politics email.©2017 HuffPost | 770 Broadway, New York, NY 10003 |
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