HANNIBAL — Grace Hiles, a senior at Hannibal Senior High School, received second-place honors during the 89th Annual High School Oratorical Scholarship Program Constitutional Speech Contest at Americal Legion Post
As police attempted to cover up their complicity in the massacre at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, thousands of students protested unending gun violence in mass walkouts.
Parents and lawmakers across the nation are pushing to ban books in schools. Many of the challenged books are by Black or LGBTQ authors. St. Louis-area students are determined to read banned materials to better understand Black history.