The legal team will share the merits of the lawsuit against the state takeover of the St. Louis Police Department.

The Jamala Rogers Young Visionary Award recognizes and supports young people who work for, or want to work for, racial justice, human rights, and peace. Applicants must be between 17 and 26 years old and reside in the St. Louis metropolitan area (including the bi-state region). They are responding to society’s social, political, and economic issues.

When Missourians submitted 305,968 signatures to the Missouri Secretary of State to put HB1, politicians’ gerrymandered map, to a vote of the people, the map should immediately be paused and not go into effect.

But Missouri Secretary of State Denny Hoskins and Missouri Attorney General Catherine Hanaway don’t like following the Missouri Constitution. Unelected AG Hanaway claims the maps have gone into effect, and SOS Hoskins has gone along with her claim that the map has gone into effect on Thursday, December 11.

A Missouri Supreme Court decision allowing State Attorney General Andrew Bailey to appeal the exoneration of Christopher Dunn sparked outrage among advocates for criminal justice reform. Dunn, who was wrongfully convicted and imprisoned for 34 years, was exonerated by St. Louis Circuit Judge Jason Sengheiser. The judge determined that the evidence presented constituted a “clear and convincing case of actual innocence.”

THE PENAL SYSTEM & THE BLACK COMMUNITY: Seen through the lens of Black Women workers