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In 2011, the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia said, “Certainly, the Constitution does not require discrimination on the basis of sex. The only issue is whether it prohibits it. It doesn’t. Nobody ever thought that that is what it meant. Nobody ever voted for that. If the current society wants to outlaw discrimination by sex, hey, we have things called legislatures and they enact things called laws.”

Under the Kansas Constitution, women had limited voting rights. Women could vote in school elections. But full suffrage for women here in Kansas took focused work from real visionaries.

Though his martyrdom lives on, justice has eluded the Rev. James Reeb. A monument to his life stands in front of the Brown Chapel AME Church in Selma, Ala., marking the day the Wichita native left his wife and children in Boston to attempt to march to Montgomery for voting rights and beaten to death with a club for his participation.

In the 2021 hybrid documentary/scripted feature based on Ibram X. Kendi’s award-winning book, Stamped From the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas, Princeton Prof. Imani Perry connected several historical dots over the span of centuries.

With the 2024 legislative session upon us, we’re gearing up to advocate for much-needed criminal legal reform. Check out an overview of our biggest goals.