“Youth Aren’t Bulletproof”
“Dear Lawmaker, My name is Ana Rodriguez. I lost my daughter, Maite Rodriguez on May 24, 2022 in a mass shooting at her school, Robb [...]
Read MoreWear Orange
May 29 was Memorial Day in the United States, and the long weekend that is traditionally observed with shared American remembrance made headlines again for [...]
Read MoreIt’s Always the Guns
Gun violence takes a relentless toll in our nation. Every day more than 300 people are killed or injured by guns in the United States, [...]
Read MoreDoing Something
After yet another mass shooting made headlines this week—this time, at a bank in Louisville, Kentucky—the chief medical officer for University of Louisville Health gained [...]
Read MoreBeyond Thoughts and Prayers
It happened again. This time, the mass school shooting was at the Covenant School in Nashville, Tennessee. The victims were custodian Michael Hill, principal Katherine [...]
Read More“You Either Care About Protecting Kids or You Don’t”
“As we sat at our desks working on our computers, we began to hear loud pops…I thought I was going to die. As I laid [...]
Read MoreNo Safe Spaces
In California this week, hearts, families, and lives were broken again by two mass shootings in two days. On Saturday evening, January 21, 11 people [...]
Read MoreTime to Act
“He went there and shot my teacher—and told my teacher good night and shot her in the head. And then he shot some of my [...]
Read More“What Are We Doing?”
The funerals for the ten Black community members who were murdered while grocery shopping in Buffalo on May 14 are not even over—but it happened [...]
Read More“A Morally Inclement Climate”
April 4th was the 54th anniversary of the assassination of our nation’s prophet of nonviolence, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. On the same day we [...]
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