Front Cover Feature Lucy McBath Congresswoman Gun Violence Atlanta , Georgia November 2018
A Mother ' s Love Transformed into A Nation ' s Change Lucy McBath now a newly elected Congresswoman fights to changes our nation ' s gun laws . Lucy McBath , a first-time congressional candidate , has pulled off a victory in a cl ? se contest in Georgia ' s Sixth Congressional . D1stnct , unseating incumbent Republican Rep . Karen Handel just one year after Democrats lost the district in a nationally watched special election . Lucy, a Gun Control Advocate and spokesperson for " Mother of the Movement " a group of black women who have lost children to the police and vigilante violence central to the rise of Black Lives Matter - made her prominent . She also advocates for Everytown for Gun Safety and Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense , Lucy McBath ' s son
Jordan Davis , was slain at a Jacksonville , Florida gas station in 2012 by a white man who was angry over the loud music the black teenager and his friends had been playing in their car . Michael Dunn used the " stand-your-ground " law in his defense , but was convicted and is serving a life sentence . " I lost my son Jordan but I ' m still his mother . And _ I still continue to mother him through makmg sure that I preserve the lives of other children like him ," she said during a television ad . A congressional run wasn ' t always in the cards for McBath ; in 2017 she first mounted a campaign for Georgia ' s state house . But after the Februa � y 2018 Parkland school shooting , McBath _ switched h � r focus to Congress , saying that national attention and activism following