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Vol. 88 No. 33 COMPLIMENTARY
Diversity celebrated at Business Salute Daniel: ‘That’s who this country is, and who we want it to be’ By Chris King Of The St. Louis American Photo by Wiley Price
Larry W. Lee, CEO of Andy’s Seasoning and 2016 Entrepreneur of the Year, with emcee Carol Daniel at the St. Louis American Foundation’s 2016 Salute to Excellence in Business Luncheon, held Thursday, November 17 at the Four Seasons Hotel St. Louis.
The St. Louis American Foundation’s 2016 Salute to Excellence in Business Luncheon, held on Thursday, November 17, came days after the president-elect of the United States announced that the publisher of a white nationalist news site, Steve Bannon,
would be his chief strategist. The presidentelect’s surrogates were publicly discussing creating a national registry for Muslims, as minorities in America reeled from a spate of hate crimes in the wake of Donald Trump’s election. So emcee Carol Daniel was jubilant to hear a white male business executive – Matt Holt, vice president of human resources at
Dot Foods – speak in positive terms about the business and cultural dividends of diversity. “We believe diversity is the driver of innovation,” Holt said, in accepting the 2016 Corporate Diversity Award for Dot Foods, a multi-billion-dollar food redistributor with
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Pearlie Evans passes at 84 Clay district director, one of first black women grads at Brown School By Gloria S. Ross For St. Louis Public Radio
Photo by Wiley Price
Better family dance Jahari White soared as Better Family Life’s Kuumba Youth Performance Ensemble staged a dance during a private reception at the National Blues Museum in downtown St. Louis before BFL’s 30th anniversary Unity Ball at the America’s Center.
Pearlie Evans, a leader in the Civil Rights Movement who helped integrate public accommodations in St. Louis and later served as the top aide to the first African-American congressman from Missouri, has died. During the 1960s, Ms. Evans was an activist with the Congress for Racial Equality and the NAACP. She marched arm-in-arm with future Congressman William L. “Bill” Clay, Norman Seay, Percy Green II and others Photo courtesy of Bill Clay who were working for Pearlie Evans, then-district change. “We were into director for Congressman everything under the Bill Clay, with Clay in 1998. sun,” Clay said. They believed themselves to be part of a new political movement, one that challenged the old guard of black leadership in St. Louis. “They felt comfortable with a modicum of progress, and we wanted the whole hog,” Clay said. “It was our time. We See EVANS, A7
Black Ladue students protest racist incidents Assault charges filed over black student burned by glue gun at high school
Tajah Walker discussed being the victim of racist harassment at Ladue Horton Watkins High School during a Ladue school board meeting on Tuesday, November 15.
n On Thursday, November 10, a group of white students were witnessed chanting “Trump, Trump, Trump,” toward black students on a Ladue school bus.
By Mariah Stewart Of The St. Louis American Dozens of Ladue high School students participated in a school walkout and march on Wednesday, November 16, responding to racist incidents that took place following the shocking presidential election of Donald Trump on November 8. On Thursday, November 10, a group of white students were
witnessed chanting “Trump, Trump, Trump,” toward black students on a Ladue school bus. One white male took the hazing further and said all black students should “sit in the back of the bus,” according to Tajah Walker, 15, who was targeted in the See STUDENTS, A6 Photo by Lawrence Bryant
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RBC closes Reinvest North County Fund
Kirkwood wins state championship
Like father, like son
Nearly $1M was raised and invested in 55 small businesses and four school districts.
The Kirkwood Pioneers rolled to their second state title in school history defeating Blue Springs.
Local rapper Young Dark blesses families of the incarcerated with Thanksgiving meallike his daddy Jus Bleezy did before him.
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