Our July issue on freedom, asylum, incarceration and re-entry blended into our August issue highlighting activism and protest as we mark the fifth anniversary of the murder of Mike Brown in Ferguson. A poem about the Exonerated 5 and Oscar & Valeria who drowned crossing the Rio Grande amplifies the focus on human rights that form this expanded issue. Two photo spreads, excerpts from The Fire Shut Up in Our Bones documentary and a feature on a transitional home for female ex-offenders bring hope and inspiration to align with our Respect For Life public awareness campaign.
