This year's theme, Be Informed! Be Heard!, reflected our ongoing efforts to demand access to information and education, be that in the classroom or at the ballot box. We are counting down the days to the culmination of a tumultuous and polarized election season. We are also entering another academic year knowing we must protect our students, their families, and teachers and administrators of color in the face of attempts to dismantle DEI and reduce our representation in educational spaces. With these ongoing struggles, it remains crucial for us to engage our community and use our collective strength to advocate for our right to access knowledge and use it to make permanent change.

The Freedom Fund Dinner provided an opportunity for members and leaders of the Missouri NAACP to come together as a community to celebrate another year of hard work, dedicated advocacy, collaboration, and determination in our ongoing fight to secure civil and human rights for all Missourians.

This year we were honored to welcome Christopher Dunn as our keynote speaker for the evening. Dunn was recently released from prison here in Missouri after having his wrongful conviction from 1991 overturned.

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