It’s Always the Guns
Gun violence takes a relentless toll in our nation. Every day more than 300 people are killed or injured by guns in the United States, [...]
Read MoreDoing Something
After yet another mass shooting made headlines this week—this time, at a bank in Louisville, Kentucky—the chief medical officer for University of Louisville Health gained [...]
Read MoreBeyond Thoughts and Prayers
It happened again. This time, the mass school shooting was at the Covenant School in Nashville, Tennessee. The victims were custodian Michael Hill, principal Katherine [...]
Read More“You Either Care About Protecting Kids or You Don’t”
“As we sat at our desks working on our computers, we began to hear loud pops…I thought I was going to die. As I laid [...]
Read MoreNo Safe Spaces
In California this week, hearts, families, and lives were broken again by two mass shootings in two days. On Saturday evening, January 21, 11 people [...]
Read MoreTime to Act
“He went there and shot my teacher—and told my teacher good night and shot her in the head. And then he shot some of my [...]
Read More“What Are We Doing?”
The funerals for the ten Black community members who were murdered while grocery shopping in Buffalo on May 14 are not even over—but it happened [...]
Read More“A Morally Inclement Climate”
April 4th was the 54th anniversary of the assassination of our nation’s prophet of nonviolence, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. On the same day we [...]
Read MoreThis Is Not Normal
On April 8 President Biden announced a series of executive actions to curb America’s gun violence epidemic that kills a child or teen every 2 [...]
Read MoreMore Truths About Guns in America
On November 6, 17-year-old Da’Qwan Jones-Morris, a former Children’s Defense Fund (CDF) Freedom Schools® scholar from St. Paul, Minnesota, was killed when he was accidentally [...]
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