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St. Louis Realtors issued a public apology for the effects of discrimination and segregation in the regional housing market.
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Missouri would join handful of states that have recently enacted laws to remove racially restrictive covenants from property records.
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On the last day before the legislature takes a week off, the House also passed legislation including banning discrimination in schools against traditionally Black hairstyles and creating nurseries in women’s prisons.
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University of Iowa history professor Colin Gordon found that more than 70,000 St. Louis County homes are located in subdivisions that once barred people of color from living in them.
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Racial covenants made it illegal for Black people to live in white neighborhoods. Now they're illegal, but you might still have one on your home's deed. And they're hard to remove.
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The covenants, widely used in the early- to mid-1900s, shut Black St. Louisans out of white neighborhoods for decades and had long-lasting impacts on communities. Many homeowners have no idea these legal documents still are associated with their deeds.
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The proposals were submitted as a part of the lawsuits challenging the state's new legislative district maps and would create more majority Latino and Black districts.
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St. Louis Public Radio is partnering with NPR to investigate racially restrictive covenants and deeds — agreements meant to keep Black St. Louisans out of white neighborhoods. Your home records could contain clues.
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Attorneys Eric Banks, William Freivogel and Sarah Swatosh discussed matters involving St. Louis' judicial system on St. Louis on the Air's Legal Roundtable. They included a lawsuit against Villa Duchesne, an age discrimination suit filed by a former KMOV meteorologist and a quo warranto action by the St. Louis County counselor's office related to leadership of the St. Louis County Council.
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Eden Theological Seminary is preparing to appoint its first-ever female president.Longtime Eden faculty member and former academic Dean Deborah Krause…