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Missouri governor rescinds purchasing goals order for businesses owned by women and minorities
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An assistant professor at the MU School of Medicine, received the $1.9 million grant from the National Institutes of Health.
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Research and data suggest that Black girls in U.S. public schools are disciplined more harshly than white girls. A study in the Journal of Black Psychology that’s co-authored by a Washington University professor finds that programming for Black girls can boost self-esteem and helps with racial trauma.
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Almost 51% of Missouri is women, but they don’t have that representation on the state’s appointed boards and commissions.
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LaKisha Redditt is a Black doula and the founder of Virtuously B’Earthed Doula Services in St. Louis. She spoke about how much more education black birthing people have to do to keep themselves and their babies safe – and about how a doula can help in that process.
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Nkenge Miller is a Black doula in St. Louis who started her own doula practice, Doula’s Intuition, in 2018. She spoke about the need for and benefit of doulas – especially those with shared cultural backgrounds.
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Since the pandemic, disc golf is more popular than ever. Alexis Kerman, a graduate student at MU and professional disc golfer, is trying to make more of its athletes women.
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Powerhouse Community Development Corporation opened the Family Regeneration Center in Columbia last October. It's focusing on the specific needs of women who have experienced trauma of any kind – things like substance use and recovery, domestic violence, childhood abuse, etc.
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The fair will be held at Macon High School from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
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Today Paul Pepper visits with JEFF MORAN about the new name for the P.E.T. Mobility Project, now known as Mobility Worldwide. Why the change and what…