Discrimination

"The CROWN Act is a very necessary step in ensuring equity and addressing the silent but very real barrier of implicit bias,” says Kansas City Councilwoman Ryana Parks-Shaw.

How all-virtual school has been fairing for Kansas City Public Schools, the Kansas City Council unanimously passed the CROWN Act and the Kansas City Actors Theatre is pivoting to radio performances.

How the Kansas Human Rights Commission is expanding LGBTQ protections that up to now only covered workers.

GOP delegates from Kansas and Missouri discuss a virtual political convention unlike any other, how the Kansas Human Rights Commission could expand LGBTQ protections in the state, and a long-running craft fair receives patrons in-person again.

A court ruled last year that Lisa Benson was retaliated against by her former employer, but stopped short of saying she was discriminated against because of her race. Benson hopes the ordeal has forced the 41 Action News team "to confront their racial bias."

The COVID-19 pandemic is introducing new challenges to the American tradition of going away for college, how an extended tax filing deadline is affecting tax payers and professionals, and a former 41 Action News reporter describes what led her to sue the media outlet.

Missouri Congressman Emanuel Cleaver talks about the pain felt by African Americans in a year of pandemic and protests against police brutality.

Gay and transgender Americans can no longer have their employment terminated on the basis of their sexual orientation or gender identity. That decision was delivered June 15 by the U.S. Supreme Court.

The Unified Government's top doctor provides an update on progress curbing the pandemic in Wyandotte County, and analysis of the 6-3 Supreme Court ruling in a Title VII case and how employers and workers in Kansas and Missouri will be affected by that landmark decision on employment discrimination.

As Kansas City deals with nightly protests over the killing of George Floyd, a black man who died last week at the hands of Minneapolis police officers, many white folks are wondering what they can do to help.

Experts give advice on how white people can be good allies during racial unrest, and how a black female comedian finds humor during trying times.

For gay men in Kansas City who lived through the AIDS epidemic of the 1980s, the threat of COVID-19 is eerily familiar. That comes with anxiety and grief,…