Posted By: Hewson Beattie May 9, 2021 @ 9:36 am Local News, News
ST. LOUIS (AP) St. Louis Mayor Tishaura Jones has signed a bill prohibiting race-based discrimination based on hairstyles. The Democratic mayor, elected last month, signed the bill Friday. Kansas City, Missouri, has a similar ordinance.
Several states also have passed the CROWN Act, which stands for Creating a Respectful and Open World for Natural hair. The St. Louis bill was sponsored by Alderwoman Shameem Clark Hubbard.
It prohibits job, housing and hiring discrimination “based upon an individual’s hairstyle, protective hair, or natural or cultural hair texture or style.” A similar bill was recently introduced by the St. Louis County Council.
St. Louis bans discrimination based on hairstyles
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ST. LOUIS (AP) St. Louis Mayor Tishaura Jones has signed a bill prohibiting race-based discrimination based on hairstyles.
The Democratic mayor, elected last month, signed the bill Friday. Kansas City, Missouri, has a similar ordinance. Several states also have passed the CROWN Act, which stands for Creating a Respectful and Open World for Natural hair.
The St. Louis bill was sponsored by Alderwoman Shameem Clark Hubbard. It prohibits job, housing and hiring discrimination “based upon an individual s hairstyle, protective hair, or natural or cultural hair texture or style.”
A similar bill was recently introduced by the St. Louis County Council.
Tishaura Jones is sworn in as St. Louis 47th mayor Tuesday.
Near the end of cementing the designation of becoming the first Black woman to serve as the mayor of St. Louis, Tishaura Jones capped off a speech of ambitious plans and transformative hopes fairly simply. My name is Tishaura Oneda Jones,” she told a crowd gathered in the rotunda at City Hall on Tuesday. I use the she/her pronouns. And I am the mayor of the city of St. Louis.
The swearing-in of Jones, a former state lawmaker and treasurer of St. Louis, was not only a milestone for Black women in St. Louis politics, it was a shifting of several decades of political philosophies in the mayor’s office.
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Members of the Public Safety Committee of the St. Louis Board of Aldermen, along with supporters and opponents of an aerial surveillance program, participate in a video conference meeting of the committee on Tuesday.
A controversial aerial surveillance program has cleared its first hurdle at the St. Louis Board of Aldermen.
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“The stated goals, quite frankly, of the bill and of the agreement is justice for victims and their families,” said Alderman Tom Oldenburg, D-16th Ward, the sponsor of the legislation. “2020 was the most violent year we have seen in 50 years. We have to immediately have an active plan that will enhance our existing technology to bring more justice to those 262 families and all of those who have fallen victim to homicide and other violent crimes.”
âThe cohort itself was amazing. Just the people in there, the connection alone goes a long way. â Shavanna Spratt, Neighborhood Leadership fellow Photo by Wiley Price / St. Louis American
Even after nine months of leadership training through the Neighborhood Leadership Fellows, Shavanna Spratt says she still feels like an ordinary, everyday person. The difference now is sheâs prepared and ready to take action to make Ferguson a better place.Â
âI think that s what makes my situation even more special, because that s kind of where I am now, fighting for people, the everyday, average person, to speak up and be involved and to be encouraged to get in their communities and do some work,â Spratt said in an interview..