Kailan Dixon

Journalism Fellow

Kailan Dixon is a summer journalism fellow from North Carolina A&T State University.

Brittney Like: "If you want teachers, you need to pay them."

Rebecca Smith

Brittney Like spoke with the Missouri On Mic team at the Poplar Bluff Municipal Library in July. She works there, and she’s also a student teacher.
Abe Kropp: "We always have appreciated the way the United States helped us."

Kailan Dixon

Abe Kropp spoke with the Missouri on Mic team at the Missouri State Fair last August. He spoke about his family migrating to Missouri as refugees from the Eastern Bloc.
PHOTO: Columbia Community Protests After Roe v. Wade is Overturned

Kailan Dixon

On Friday, June 24, 2022 the Supreme Court of the United States ruled in a 6-3 decision to overturn Roe v. Wade on the grounds that “Roe was egregiously wrong from the start. It’s reasoning was exceptionally weak, and the decision has had damaging consequences.”