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St. Louis Art Museum Director Brent Benjamin says that the museum has a diverse group of visitors, but that the organization must make systemic changes to ensure racial equity.
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Hours after someone defaced a remembrance of Breonna Taylor at the St. Louis University clock tower, a group of students presented a list of 11 demands to SLU officials calling for the university to better support students, faculty and workers of color. They want SLU to provide more mental health resources, disarm campus police and fund diverse and inclusive events.
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Black people and other minorities who work for mainstream environmental advocacy organizations in the St. Louis region struggle to fit in and make their ideas heard. But without them, environmental organizations are ill-equipped to serve communities of color.
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The Sierra Club, the Missouri Coalition for the Environment and other St. Louis-area environmental groups have released public statements to express support for the Black Lives Matter movement. But the largely white organizations, which focus on policy and outdoor recreation, have found it difficult to address environmental problems that affect predominantly black St. Louis neighborhoods.
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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…
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City Garden Montessori, located in the Shaw neighborhood, is a preK-8 charter school committed to anti-biased, anti-racist (ABAR) practices. Finding…
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With the Better Together proposal that had sought to consolidate much of St. Louis City and County government now no longer up for consideration, what’s…
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Since Michael Brown was fatally shot by a white police officer in Ferguson nearly five years ago, hundreds of local governments have committed to making…
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This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, Aug. 14, 2009 - When the voluntary school desegregation came to the Parkway School District in 1983,…