SIKESTON, Mo. -- Thomas Austin Marshall, 92, of Sikeston died peacefully Sunday, Jan. 29, 2023, at La Bonne Maison. Tom was born June 10, 1930, in St. Louis to the late Ben F. Jr. and Catherine ...

Thomas’ predecessor on the court, Thurgood Marshall, was a civil rights lawyer before becoming a justice. In 1991, in his final opinion before retiring after a quarter century on the court ...

In my five decades as a journalist, I’ve had the privilege of speaking with both Marshall and Thomas about their philosophies of law and how the law should address racial inequality, and a ...