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A research study on racially restrictive covenants showed there are still millions of such documents tied to home deeds across the United States.
And around 30,000 restrictive covenants in St. Louis, which peaked in the 1920s.
Julia Allen, co-founder of 4TheVille, discovered recently that the owner of their home has signed a covenant agreeing not to sell or rent to people of colour.
The 71-year-old, with the help of her non-profit, aims to help people understand and address the fight against discriminatory housing practices.
Check out the full story by Corinne Ruff on St. Louis Public Radio.
“How can you make a difference? First look into what breaks your heart and what makes you come alive,” says Dan Parris, Dan Parris, a St.Louis based award-winning filmmaker and founder of Speak Up Productions.
If learning disabilities, homelessness, young people without a purpose or poor education breaks your heart, and if storytelling/film making, journalism, administration, tutoring is what you are good at, it should be used to make a difference, he suggests.
Check out the full video on TedXStLouis.
Green Street plans to build a 5000 Square Foot 1920’s Speakeasy themed Bar at the Armoury Building in Midtown, St. Louis.
The developer intends to complete the project at half its estimated cost.
Check out the full story by Steph Kukuljan on the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
The National Security Innovation Network, a talent and technology pipeline for national security is a signed partnership between Cortex Innovation Community and the Department of Defense.
The program was invented with the intention of encouraging startups connecting the private sector with the Department of Defense.
The NSIN collaborates with several universities in the area hosting hackathons to collect various data.
St, Louis was selected by the Pentagon as an Innovation Hub for NSIN because of the academic institutions, entrepreneurship ecosystem, two of the major Department of Defense partners.
Check out the full story by Annika Merrilees on the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
Arch Grants, a non-profit, celebrates a decade of awarding grants to startups in St. Louis and beyond.
Jerry Schlichter, the brainchild behind Arch Grants, believes the impact is beyond offering employment opportunities and capital returns - it has helped promote inclusivity in St. Louis.
"When Arch Grants launched, Schlichter said the organization contacted every historically black college and university and women’s college in the U.S. to inform them about the competition.
Ten years later, Arch Grants said 69% of the companies it’s funded are led or co-led by a woman, person of color, immigrant or veteran.
Those figures pace well ahead of the venture capital industry, where just 2.4% of U.S. venture funding between 2015 and 2020 went to Latino or Black founders, according to Crunchbase, which tracks venture funding."
Paul Riat, Publisher of 4thEst8 aims to eradicate false and economically manipulative news published based on any party.
He intends to make the news industrial complex irrelevant by building a more accountable system through technology.
He aims to attract more real journalists to the industry through this initiative to improve the quality of news.
Riat, converts his articles to NFT’s whereas he will be giving a discount that’s expected to act as an economic and social incentive for its subscribers.
Founder and CEO of Geospatial World, Sanjay Kumar, chose St. Louis over Washington, D.C. as the U.S Head Quarters for his Indian media and consulting firm.
The industry growth impressed Kumar and he stated that St. Louis offered commendable opportunity for growth.
Kumar expects to employ at least ten employees at St. Louis within a year. Aaron Addison, newly appointed vice president for the Americas, will be leading the U.S. office located in the Globe building downtown where other geospatial firms have opened their offices signing a lease with Westway Services Group for a secure space.
Check out the full story by David Nicklaus on the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
St. Louis based Lockerdome” isan Advertising Marketplace driven by an Artificial Intelligence Platform, that redefines the advertising marketplace by delivering more effective, smart and privacy friendly advertisements.
Founded by Gabe Lozano and Yomi Toba in 2008, this AI and Machine Learning platform says it is planning to open an office in Austin in 2022.
In this post on LinkedIn, the team say business is booming at LockerDome for three reasons: its people, technology and the changing market.
Check out the full post by By the Squad@LockerDome on LinkedIn.
An alternative headline might have been, "A Dozen Ways to Ruin your Thanksgiving."
I hate to say it so bluntly, but the pattern of COVID has been that infections spike after Thanksgiving in the US and again following the Christmas period internationally.
For this reason, death rates due to COVID were actually higher in 2021 than 2020, following gatherings during the holiday period.
Theoretically, death rates need not spike next year, as we have vaccines that are proven to reduce hospitalization and death.
Despite ample scientific evidence supporting the protective benefits of COVID-19 vaccinations there are still widespread concerns that they cannot be trusted, and doubtless, this will be a topic of dinner tale conversation over the holidays.
If you're pro-vaccines like me, discussing your position can be a tough conversation because it's not always clear on what basis other people object.
In my opinion, a lot of people claim to object on the basis of science, but under scrutiny, most objections are rooted in philosophical differences.
It's not your job to persuade anyone to get vaccinated and, to some degree, we are ethically obliged to accept the decisions of others, so this article isn't necessarily about changing minds.
It's more about restoring balance and vindicating intuitions, because when faith and philosophy become the last refuge for obstinacy rather than debate, it can be so frustrating to oppose them that one loses a sense of perspective and proportion - and it becomes easy to make others wrong.
I wrote this article over the summer of 2021 and never published it because I knew it would be contentious.
But I wrote it for others whom, like me, had spent the previous 18 months debating the merits of COVID vaccinations with their closest family and friends - and even their friends of friends.
I wasn’t always for mRNA vaccinations and did initially distrust them like many others did too.
I was locked in a relentless debate over their merit until I felt like I had grappled with every anti-vaxxer argument there was with my friends and family members.
Now, my opinion is that there is no philosophical or ethical basis to reject the vaccine, except that if you simply do not want it and do not trust it and cannot explain to others exactly why they feel that way.
That is a belief others are welcome to hold, as is one's right, but my position is: "let's not pretend it's a belief based in science, ethics or philosophy."
I’m sympathetic and compassionate towards anyone who fears the unknown, which I feel is the fundamentally human character that the anti-vaxxer philosophical position is rooted in.
However, I do object to COVID-truthers on social media frequently resorting to “Lies, damned lies, and statistics” as the missourian Mark Twain famously said.
People have been dying because of misinformation and, to me, those deaths seem preventable. Providing others with potentially better ways of thinking is the only weapon a writer has, so I am called to fight.
In this article, I’m going to attempt to explain why the anti-vaxxer arguments seem more persuasive on face value, but also why these arguments against vaccination ultimately crumble under scrutiny.
We’ll get into the problematic cause of death by any disease, why it matters, and what other myths and mistaken beliefs have taken root in the public health debate around the coronavirus pandemic.
I do care whether you get the vaccine as I think it increases your chances of surviving serious illness and death. That said, you are allowed to believe what you want and think what you think, just as I am. That’s your right, just as it is mine. Go us!
Now... let's get started!
In this talk from the TedXStLouis archive, CEO of Juristat and Legal Professional, Andrew Winship speaks about the biases in the legal system.
His first example explains that there is a significant impact based on the race and colour of an accused person in receiving judgement in court.
He also revealed that the blood sugar levels of the judge may also change the decisions by studying the meal breaks of courts and the judgements passed subsequent to them.
As his second example, Andrew explains that the Patent Application process takes 18 months to be reviewed by a patent officer whereas a small company has a probability of 68% and a larger company has a 87% probability of being granted.
He further explains that the patent officer ratios are 1:3 between female and male officers.
His study explains that female officers are two months faster than men in granting patent approvals whereas male officers have a higher probability of approving patent applications.
However, he also explains that there is a significant difference between approval rates of two patent officers.
In conclusion, he explains that the key factors to prevent these biases are proper data driven decisions and having empathy towards the other parties in the legal system with the hope of seeing a more transparent, predictable and equitable patent and legal system.
Brown School offers its students a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to work with CEOs of leading nonprofits in St Louis.
Through this opportunity, the students will be able to work with top CEOs for 2 semesters.
One semester into the initiative has seen recognition of the practicum as an excellent learning experience for aspiring students and a great opportunity for Top CEOs to understand how talented the new generations are in diverse work environments.
Lewis Sheats, newly appointed Director of the Chaifetz Center for Entrepreneurship, Saint Louis University is the founder of Interstate Logistics, Co-founder of GPS device firm Securus and part-time chief strategy officer for Raleigh.
He plans to focus on interdisciplinary collaboration and experiential learning.
This collaboration aims to enable students from various disciplines to bring their ideas together to build a strong concept and product. Along with this, he intends to build young entrepreneurs and to groom the talent pipeline in St. Louis.
Sarah Schlafly, Founder of Mighty Cricket, introduces a powerful, yet a sustainable and high protein alternative to animal proteins - edible insect based protein powder, pancake and waffle mix and chocolates.
Mighty Cricket was awarded by Arch Grants while it aims for expansion and growth to meet the future global food demand.
Check out the full story by Amanda Woytus on St. Louis Magazine.
Envisioning a transformation, Pier Property Group has secured $60 million from Target Corp. for an apartment development in Midtown, St. Louis.
The proposed development is a 196-unit apartment project with 200 space parking and a 140-surface lot.
This also marks the second location for this national retailer in St. Louis.
Check out the full story by Steph Kukuljan on the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.Last month, St. Louis startup KNOWiNK has hired Jason Tice as its first chief technology officer in a bid to expand its election technology products.
As CTO, Tice plans to improve the voter registration process by developing mobile app technology that allows individuals to securely register to vote as well as introduce technology to other components of elections, such as voter check-in. KNOWiNK is presently used by over 1,500 voting authorities in more than 30 U.S. states, and was named the St. Louis fastest-growing private company in 2020.
Ferguson-based Emerson Electric (NYSE: EMR) is planning to boost its corporate venture capital investment by providing $100 million to early stage companies over the next five years.
The industrial giant plans to invest in four to six startups per year over the next five years.
Priority will be given to startups and technologies in areas of discrete automation solutions, environmentally sustainable technologies and industrial software.
Jim Wible, Director of Attraction Development at PGAV speaks to TedXStLouis on how he was inspired by Star Wars as a kid to be a designer.
From his humble beginning as an illustrator at PGAV, Jim also explains his experiences about how the younger generations inspired him to be a better designer.
His inspiration to develop designs of these iconic attractions and theme parks have been seeing the joy, happiness and self-exploration of kids at these attractions, of which he takes pride in.
PGAV Destinations, known for world-class designs, exhibits and experiences, plans to expand the guest experience of the St. Louis City Museum.
While preserving the brand and vision, PGAV Destinations plans to work closely with the City Museum team to cultivate the “Cassilly Style”, to reimagine the culinary and retail offering, and enhance the attractions, activities and exhibits.
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