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Yesterday we visited A Philip Randolph High School while their students were making a peace mural. We're starting an ongoing program at A P Randolph to discuss gun violence and the making of healthy communities. You'll be reading their blogs and watching their videos over the next few months, so stay tuned.

The peace mural was one of the first events their Humanities department put on, and the students had a great time! We got letters from a few of the students describing their...

On Wednesday, April 27th at 7:30 PM The Maysles Cinema will present the Beyond Bullets: Gun Violence in America curated by Sylvia Savadjian. This event will feature three films on the topic of gun violence in America. The films include Living for 32 directed by Kevin Breslin, Bullets in the Hood: A Bed- Stuy Story, directed by Terrence Fisher and Daniel Howard, and A Harlem Mother directed by Ivana Todorovic.

In 1998, 18 year old LaTraun Parker made a documentary about the difficulties of growing up in Harlem. Eights years later he was shot dead on the street. Today his mother Jean Corbett-Parker fights youth gun violence and helps other parents survive the pain through her organization, Harlem Mothers. Weaving footage from LaTraun’s own film with scenes from Jean’s new life today, A Harlem Mother is a short documentary that tells this...

Tomorrow night a beautiful film is screening at Rooftop Films called A Harlem Mother. This outstanding portrait of Jean Corbett Parker, co-founder of Harlem Mothers SAVE, describes what a mother goes through when she loses her son to gun violence. Filmmaker, Ivana Todorovic, has done a brilliant job of celebrating the work that Jean is doing for parents and their children in Harlem while never overlooking the challenges and sadness that permeate her life day after day.