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$5B for Community Gun Violence Intervention Included in House Budget Plan FROM THE TRACE Legal challenges to gun restrictions have been building since 2008, when the Supreme Court’s landmark decision in District of Columbia v. Heller established the right to own a firearm for self-defense. Learn more at The Trace.

Both mayoral candidates in tomorrow’s election favor an approach called focused deterrence. Some advocates caution it could reinforce punitive policing. Last year, 262 people were murdered in St. Louis, bringing the city’s homicide rate higher than it’s been in 50 years. Most of those cases are still open and unsolved. Those figures have made reducing violent crime one of the key issues in the city’s [...]

"If we only talk about gun violence when there's a mass shooting, then we're going to have a certain perspective of what gun violence looks like and what the remedies are," said Antonio Cediel of Faith in Action. Read more here.

Brittany White, decarceration campaign manager for LIVE FREE, spoke with The Dallas Morning News about Street Certified and New Georgia Project’s work mobilizing formerly incarcerated people to vote in Georgia. “What is important is to build a network of formerly incarcerated people who feel empowered in their vote. That is highlighted in this moment, but it is beyond the runoff to the fact that this [...]

The Rev. Dr. Joy Johnson, former president of Sacramento ACT, was one of several noted Black leaders in Sacramento who are calling on health officials and elected leaders to increase efforts to deliver the COVID-19 vaccine to Black residents. Click here to read more.