Dave Rini, NLC Boston
Ronika Gillon, NLC St. Louis
On the day that the National Memorial for Peace and Justice opened, the sky showered Montgomery, Alabama with a steady rain, as if to cleanse the site and prepare it for visitors.
With fresh support for much-needed gun control following the shooting in Parkland, Florida, criminal justice reform advocates are right to be concerned that new policies will rely on old approaches that widen the net of the…