Minorities

Homeownership rates have increased for minorities over the past few years, according to the National Association of Realtors 2024 Snapshot of Race and Home Buying in America Report. Just 41% of Black Americans own homes in Missouri, which is below the national average.

The university received about $1.5 million from the National Science Foundation to study sustainable watersheds and implement different ways to support graduate students involved in the research.

Ashley Denmark is a family-medicine physician with BJC Healthcare. A black woman, she grew up in Jennings, Missouri, and at an early point in her life,…

As a gay black woman with working-class roots, LaShana Lewis doesn’t look like a typical computer programmer.Lewis spent the better part of two decades…

For more than 20 years, novelist Junot Diaz has explored the immigrant experience.From his debut 1996 novel, “Drown,” a semi-autobiographical work on the…

Dozens of people visited a mobile museum dedicated to educating the public about unconscious bias at the Express Scripts headquarters in north St. Louis…

What exactly is an “inter-minority" dialogue?For Vince Lee Bantu, it’s a space for where people of color can come share their common cultural experiences…

According to studies, minorities are the most underrepresented when it comes to careers in science, technology, engineering and math. Hawthorn Leadership…

Unemployed minorities and females looking to enter the construction industry in the St. Louis region now have a new training option.MOKAN Construction…