After an online competition that spanned the first two weeks of June, Democracy for America selected SPA Executive Director Aaron Voldman to receive one of 40 scholarships granted to bold activists to attend the Netroots Nation Conference.

On May 13, the Los Angeles Sentinel ran an open letter written by Ms. Pat Hendricks Munson , whose son Dwayne was shot to death on May 1st - an unnecessary victim of ongoing violence within his community. Ms. Munson’s open letter pleads us, and our leaders, to stand up against the preventable conditions that promote violence. The Youth PROMISE Act represents a positive step in this direction.