We Must Protect Our Children America!
Six years ago today, December 14 started off like an ordinary morning in classrooms across our country. Children rushed in to school bundled against the [...]
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Reclaiming Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood
Children continue to be terrorized by the daily reality that there is no safe space in our gun-saturated country. They are filled with fear they [...]
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Our Children Are Saying “We Are Afraid”
The school shootings are scary and we feel like nothing can stop it from happening. -- 11-year-old girl, Indiana We are afraid because there are [...]
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Our Children Are Crying Out
Last weekend in Chicago, 12 people were killed and at least 60 others were injured by guns. Fourteen of these shooting victims were children and [...]
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Childhoods Ended by Guns
On July 16, 10-year-old Makiyah Wilson was shot and killed in front of her Washington, D.C. home trying to buy ice cream. Makiyah was a [...]
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Senator Robert Kennedy
On the night Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was killed, Senator Robert F. Kennedy, who had announced his decision to run for president, was campaigning [...]
Read MoreLet’s Move Forward Together
In the spring of 1960, I was a senior at Spelman College in Atlanta and decided to help organize the civil rights student sit-in movement [...]
Read MoreMarching for Our Children’s Lives and Nation’s Soul
I am so proud of every one of the brave young survivors and opponents of gun violence, organizers, and marchers who will be leading adults [...]
Read More“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 [...]
Read MoreOur Children’s Cry: Do Something
On March 14th, Americans witnessed a remarkable scene as tens of thousands of students across our country walked out of their classrooms to honor the [...]
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