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Would America Be Changing Gun Laws if the Sandy Hook Kids Had Been Black?
In this interview, Father Michael Pfleger speaks with Dr. Boyce Watkins about gun violence and the incident in Newtown, Connecticut at Sandy Hook Elementary School Click…
Crystal Hayes: Scholar, Feminist and Advocate for Women
Dr. Boyce Watkins speaks with Crystal Hayes about violence against women. Click to Watch…
Madam Prezident’s Extraodinary Poem: Welcome to Chicago
Madam Prezident performs a poem as a reflection of the violence in Chicago. Click to watch…
What Do We Tell Our Children?
Almost every single day, someone walks into one of National Action Network’s (NAN) offices around the country consumed with the most unbelievable pain you can ever imagine.…
Memoirs of a Mentor: A Call for Black Men in College to Come Back to School
Clinton Global Initiative University 2013 Commitment-Maker; Epidemiology Major at University of Rochester Growing up in the Bronx, violence was inescapable, with age offering no immunity. When I was…
On Gun Violence, Listen to the Children
Writing at the Huffington Post, Children’s Defense Fund President Marian Wright Edelman makes the case that it’s time to protect kids, not weapons. My friends are dead. I saw…
Listen to the Children
“My friends are dead. I saw the bad man. He was next to me when we ran out.” “I played ball with him. Now he is dead.” “My…
An All-American Crisis
“We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.” –Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.…
The NRA’s Latest Ploy: Grab More Minorities
Earl Ofari Hutchinson, writing at the Huffington Post, explores what he says is an unconvincing argument by the National Rifle Association. The NRA has not and never has made a…
It Could Have Been My Brother
My brother was dead. I was fully convinced that my brother was dead. Growing up in sunny central Florida, I felt removed from the grim realities of society.…
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