Diversity Management, News and Updates
Missouri’s tourism board has cast a Black actress as “Mo” — the new face of the state, even as an NAACP travel advisory remains in effect against the region. According to Char Adams of NBC News, the NAACP issued a warning urging Black visitors to Missouri to be cautious due…
St. Louis County, Mo., police officer Sgt. Keith Wildhaber on Friday won a discrimination lawsuit against his department for nearly $20 million after claiming the department discriminated against him based on his sexuality and retaliated against him when he filed a complaint. In one instance in 2014, Wildhaber recounted in…
Contractors with white ancestry earned $311,000 two years ago — as a minority-owned company, the Los Angeles Times reports. When the St. Louis, Missouri mayor announced the contract the town made with a Native American-owned company to demolish an old shoe factory, the community welcomed it. The area was still…
St. Louis, Missouri police sergeant Heather Taylor did not hesitate to answer “yes” when CBS News reporter Jeff Pegues asked her if she believed there were white supremacists on the police force. Taylor’s answer comes after a damning exposé by the Plain View Project, a database of thousands of racist,…
In Kansas City, Mo., a livestreamed video caught a violent attack on Florencio Millan-Vazquez. In the video, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents smashed the driver’s side window of Millan-Vazquez’s car, dragged him out and arrested him. According to NBC News, ICE officers in Kansas City boxed in Millan-Vazquez while…
The last abortion clinic in Missouri will remain open. On Friday, a St. Louis judge kept an injunction in effect, allowing a Planned Parenthood Clinic to continue services. Related Article: Missouri Set to Become First State Without Abortion Clinic Since 1973 State Circuit Court Judge Michael Stelzer ruled in favor…
The latest annual report released by Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt’s office found that in 2018, Black drivers in Missouri were 91% more likely to be pulled over than white motorists. The report also shows that people of color are disproportionately stopped and searched by law enforcement. Black and Hispanic drivers were 1.48…
The battle over women’s health rights in Missouri will likely take a hard hit this week. The last remaining abortion clinic in Missouri says it expects to be shut down this week — basically ending legal abortion in the state, according to a statement released Tuesday by Planned Parenthood. Planned…
Missouri Rep. Barry Hovis is trying to backtrack on calling rapists “gentlemen” and mentioning “consensual rape” during a debate over a restrictive anti-abortion bill on the floor of the Missouri State House last Friday. Republican Rep. Barry Hovis said in the chamber Friday that most of the sexual assaults he…
Almitra Buzan, and her husband Robert, made a visit to a Sprint store in Missouri due to a Wi-Fi disconnection on her cellphone. Almitra got connected to a racist instead. After the couple left, a repair technician accidentally gave her phone number to the next customer who wound up texting…