New York City

stephanie

In August 2011, Mayor Bloomberg announced a new initiative to support young African-American and Latino men, who face severe disadvantages when compared with their white peers in New York City.

stephanie

We'd like to try an experiment. We spend a lot of time thinking and talking about gun violence here at DCTV, and it gets pretty depressing. We can understand how people who deal with gun violence in their neighborhoods on a regular basis find ways of coping with it by becoming desensitized or indifferent.

Our teenage participants have been writing blogs and creating videos about how gun violence affects them and submitting them to BeyondBullets.org, but we'd like to start asking them...

jesse

NYPD's First Deputy Commissioner, Raphael Pineiro, rose the ranks of the New York City Police Department from his initial appointment in 1970 to become the second-in-command of the city's police force. Our young reporter, Negesti Cantave, talks with him about how our city's gun violence affects NYPD, and what they're doing to prevent gun violence throughout the city.

Directed by: Jessie Auritt, Hemamset Angaza &...

allie

Editor’s note: In mid-May PopTech held a salon workshop to highlight Ceasefire’s innovative efforts to “intercept” gun violence and to discuss how new information technologies might help broaden the impact of these initiatives in various communities.

To continue our exploration, PopTech recently caught up with Stephanie Skaff, the project director of the Downtown Community Television Center initiative called Beyond Bullets. The project is using youth-produced media – and media...

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