DEFENDER NEWS NETWORK — Gun violence has shortened the life expectancy of Americans by nearly 2.5 years, with shootings driving down the average lifespan of black...
Mike Flannery, FOX32 CHICAGO (FOX 32 News) – Spike Lee’s upcoming movie is named ‘Chiraq,’ but the director has other words to describe the City...
NEW YORK (CBS News) – An aide to Gov. Andrew Cuomo who was shot in the crossfire between two gangs hours before the city’s West...
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist Recently, Rev. Otis Moss, Jr., pastor emeritus at Olivet Institutional Baptist Church in Cleveland, and former co-pastor at Atlanta’s...
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA Columnist I used to play video games. I would play various video games, including those involving warfare and shooting. I...
By Lekan Oguntoyinbo NNPA Columnist I applaud the Black Lives Matter Movement for renewing attention on police violence against Blacks, an issue that is old...
By Jazelle Hunt NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) — The United Nations Human Rights Committee has given the U.S. a series of failing grades on human...
(Christian Science Monitor) – As gun violence spikes once again in Chicago, gun control advocates in the city are pointing fingers at an old enemy: the...
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist I only recently embraced my status as an “elder.” Actually, I describe myself as an “episodic elder,” eager enough to...
CHRISTINE ARMARIO, Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — When his high school English students came to class, Tom Rademacher knew there would be one thing on...
By Walter L. Fields NNPA Columnist At this moment I don’t need my president to tell me to respect the decision of a tainted grand jury....
by Bridjes O’Neil Special to the NNPA from the St. Louis American The Rev. Traci Blackmon of Christ the King UCC said it was time for...
By Walter Fields NNPA Columnist The body count continues to rise as the nation panders to gun zealots and allows the Constitution to be perverted. The...
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist Nelba Márquez-Greene is a licensed marriage and family therapist who has spent her life helping others. In December 2012 she...
(USA Today) – President Obama said Tuesday the nation should do “some soul-searching”: over its epidemic of deadly gun violence and “should be ashamed” it...
By Marlon Peterson Special to the NNPA PERSPECTIVE In 1999, when I was 19 years old, I was arrested and charged with first degree murder, several...
DON BABWIN, Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — A 14-year-old Chicago girl accused of killing another girl in a dispute over a boy tried unsuccessfully to fire...
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist Today, almost one year after I first wrote about Ka’nard Allen, his story—and the stories of several other children whose...
By Jazelle Hunt NNPA National Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – After a long day of travelling, then networking on Capitol Hill, Nathaniel and Cleopatra Pendleton returned to...
By Freddie Allen NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Several new studies confirm what most people have suspected all along: no group is harmed more by...
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist The headlines in the case were sadly familiar. An angry adult armed with a gun used it to shoot...
[Voice of America] WASHINGTON — Every day in the United States, about 20 children are injured by firearms and require hospitalization, according to new research. The research said...
By Raynard Jackson NNPA Columnist Now that a 2014 has come, I have decided to pull out my trusted crystal ball and give you some...
[NPR] More than 200 people have been killed this year in Baltimore. Most of them were black, and most of them were shot to death, despite...
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist “In the 1960s, when my grandfather was teaching me to drive in his little red Ford Falcon, there was an...
