More and more Black women are becoming mayors of large American cities. Tishaura Jones has become the latest in a string of recent women candidates advancing to the top of city leadership. With her win on April 6, Jones becomes the first-ever Black woman mayor of St. Louis. Formerly the…
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Gay Police Officer Sgt. Wildhaber Wins $20 Million in Discrimination Suit Against St. Louis County
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…
LA Times Finds White Contractors Claiming to be Native American Made Millions Under Supplier Diversity Efforts
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…
Washington University to Open the Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity & Equity after Ferguson
Washington University, located in St. Louis, says that the Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity & Equity will open in October of this year, St. Louis Public Radio reports. The school hopes that the research center will lead the nation in studies and learning on the complicated issues of race….
St. Louis Police Sergeant Heather Taylor Tells CBS News She Believes There Are White Supremacists on the Force
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,…
Archived: Four St. Louis Cops Face Indictment for Beating an Undercover Officer Posing as a Protester
Four St. Louis police officers were indicted on Thursday on federal charges. The indictment indicates that three of them beat an undercover colleague during protests last year and all four of the officers involved covered it up. The indictment also claims that several of the officers talked about their “disdain”…
Archived: VIDEO: Patient Attacked at St. Louis Hospital by Security Guard
Vanity Allen went to the hospital for stomach pains and ended up being brutally assaulted by a hospital security guard in July. The 25-year-old, with an IV already installed into her body, stepped outside momentarily of the SSM Health DePaul Hospital in St. Louis, Mo., to get some fresh air….
Archived: Nordstrom Rack Calls Cops on Black Teens for No Reason
In the current trend of calling the police on Black people around the country for doing ordinary things like golfing, going to Starbucks or renting an Airbnb, three Black males were falsely accused of theft when prom shopping in the St. Louis, Mo., area. Eric Rogers and Dirone Taylor, both…
Archived: Pro-Trump TV Host Threatens to Sexually Assault a Parkland Survivor, Show Cancelled
Jamie Allman, a pro-Trump, conservative TV pundit in St. Louis, Mo., is no longer on the air. Allman made a vile post on Twitter about sexually abusing Parkland shooting survivor David Hogg, causing advertisers to begin boycotting his show. He hosted “The Allman Report” on the ABC affiliate KDNL, owned…
Archived: Two Black Men Accused of Attempted Armed Robbery by White Man Video Shows the Opposite
Last summer, a white man told police two Black men attempted to rob him at gunpoint. It turns out it was the white man who attempted the armed robbery — but it took police six months to watch the surveillance footage that told the real story. Patrick John Owens, 29,…