A few years ago, I was at a community health festival in Brownsville, a high-crime, very poor area of Brooklyn that is among the worst statistically…
Monday on “NewsOne Now,” Janaye Ingram, Malik Husser and Michael Fletcher joined Roland Martin to discuss possible solutions to end gun violence in our communities. Be sure…
Amnesty International Executive Director Steven Hawkins says the epidemic of gun violence in Chicago should be considered a human rights issue. Hawkins joined Roland Martin Thursday…
Tonya Gunn, 44, was shot and killed in Chicago’s Morgan Park on Monday while attending a family gathering, reports ABC7-Chicago. RELATED: Getting To the Bottom…
Arthur “Silky Slim” Reed used to be a gang leader. Today, he’s a motivational speaker and president of We Shoot First Films and founder of Stop the Killing, Inc., an…
A New York City youth who was shot in his eye last month reacted, not with bitterness, but by giving a speech against gun violence Saturday, the New…
The National Rifle Association convention gets underway Friday in downtown Indianapolis. The three-day event, planned by the organization, will feature displays by gun makers, seminars, meetings, a “Stand Up and Fight” Rally and a country music concert. Seventy-thousand people are expected, including opposition from the other side of the gun rights debate. Mothers from across the country […]
1. Don’t Do Depression Alone! This week the media world mourns the death of Karyn Washington, the 22-year-old writer of the popular motivational blog…
If you missed the first day of the National Action Network 2014 Convention, catch some of the highlights of the panels in NewsOne’s exclusive video recap.…
I’ve spent my entire career as a civil rights activist and anti-violence advocate. I hear from folks all over the country about how fed-up they…
A report by the Violence Policy Center (VPC), a Washington D.C.- based research and advocacy group that promotes gun control, has discovered that the state…
A report recently released by a Washington organization that researches the effects and toll of gun violence found that Nebraska has the highest Black homicide…
