News & Commentary

As we celebrate Juneteenth, let’s remember exactly what we are celebrating, and why.

While Juneteenth marks one of the most influential milestones of American history, we still have a long way to go in the fight for racial justice and equality. Juneteenth provides a reason to celebrate but also to support black-owned businesses and black-led organizations.  

My daughter is like any other teenager. She loves singing in choir, plays video games, and hangs out with her friends. We go to the gun range together, and she can shoot as straight as an arrow. She wants to be a DNA specialist like she sees on CSI.

Resilience means toughness and the capacity to recover quickly from difficulties. This definition echoes across the transgender community, particularly over the last few years, as there has been a deluge of anti-transgender legislation coming from the Missouri General Assembly.

In 2022, Missouri lawmakers filed 2,104 bills, more than almost every other state in the nation. At the end of session, they sent less than 50 to the governor's desk.

A federal judge ordered St. Louis County to pay the American Civil Liberties Union of Missouri’s clients Jon Luer and Andrea Steinebach $300,000 in damages for an illegal warrantless entry and search of their household.

We don’t know what the final opinion will look like, but here’s what we do know about abortion access nationwide.

Test your knowledge about the country’s current wave of book bans and classroom censorship measures.

The ACLU of Missouri’s lawsuit on behalf of Jon Luer and Andrea Steinebach against two St. Louis County police officers for a warrantless entry and search of their home with will be heard in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri starting Monday, Monday, May 23, 2022.