In the 18 years Paul Tutwiler has led the Northwest Jacksonville Community Development Corporation in Florida, the organization has tried a variety...
Today, Synthia Roy works at a tattoo parlor in Jacksonville, Fla., she does set design and makeup for horror films and recently...
As coronavirus continues to disrupt daily life, anti-gun violence advocates worry the communities hit hardest will see spikes in shootings.
“You could say I’m an expert at being stuck at home,” said Jacob Frazier, a 17-year-old high school senior who is abiding...
Theirs was supposed to be the kind of family people dream of having; a father, mother, son and daughter living in domestic...
Tucked in the Cheaha foothills of eastern Alabama, Ranburne is home to 409 people.
When someone with mental illness is in crisis, families often call police for help.
Across the nation as confirmed COVID-19 cases continue to rise, people are stocking up on more than groceries and toilet paper. Americans...
On one Thursday in March, James Dobbins was towering over a group of teen boys as they all headed to a community...
The Center for Sustainable Journalism is covering how communities target gun violence through 2020. This video summarizes some of our coverage from...
The Urban Institute explores the effects and reception of the recent Kansas campus carry legislation by collecting data and speaking with higher...
Mayor Randall Woodfin says Birmingham is ready for peace. With a call for communitywide investment, the mayor says it’s time for solutions...
When Randall Woodfin received the call that his older brother, Ralph Jr., had been shot, he rushed to the scene in the...
She remembers the frantic knocks at the door and the family friend who waited almost hysterical on the other side.
Mississippi’s capital city is becoming a petri dish for an experiment designed to stop an epidemic of gun violence that claimed 84...
Not long after a shooter killed five people at an Aurora, Ill., warehouse, Johns Hopkins released a report listing ways Illinois could...
Of all the threads of injustice, trauma is the common theme that contributes to a culture of gun violence for black youth...
The Center for American Progress takes a look at the different ways in which governments are allocating funds for school safety in...
It’s early evening on a warm Tuesday in March, and a handful of teenagers are commanding rapt attention in a corner of...
On a cold, rainy early spring night in 2014, I attended the private meeting of a tragic club nobody wants to join....