Racial Equity

UM System President Mun Choi said that the Department of Inclusion, Diversity and Equity — established after protests about racial equality in 2015 — will be dismantled and moved into other offices to reduce political visibility and protect its budget.

A group of attorneys and researchers are stepping in to help community organizations and local and state reparations task forces get to reparative justice for Black communities. The African American Redress Network prepares harm reports, researches disparities or helps preserve a town's Black history.

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The world-renowned poet will deliver the keynote address at the St. Louis Racial Equity Summit on Thursday.

Affinia Healthcare is opening a 15,000-square-foot clinic in Ferguson on Nov. 2., which will be led by three Black women physicians. People can receive pediatric care, dental care, behavioral health services, lactation assistance, substance abuse support, family medicine care and midwifery services.

The Rev. Wheeler Parker of Summit, Illinois, traveled with Till and other family members to Mississippi in 1955 when he was kidnapped and later murdered. After all these years, Parker said Till’s story still needs to be told.

Opera Theatre of St. Louis will present three short operas, all by artists of color who’ve worked largely outside the opera world. The works address the roots of Black, queer ballroom culture; three important inventors who were Black women, and the Supreme Court battle over a rock band’s attempt to reappropriate a racial slur.

Author Ibram X. Kendi and St. Louis artist Cbabi Bayoc discuss their recent collaboration on the children’s book “Goodnight Racism.”

The $300,000 grant will fund a team of researchers who will talk to corrections officers and jail residents to understand how racism and racial inequalities play out in the jail.

With a revolutionary deck of cards and new designs, the Kansas City-raised designer focuses on bringing culture into her passion projects.