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...
In honor of all our friends and colleagues in the Harlem community, American Friends Service Committee, New Yorkers Against Gun Violence, DCTV & award-winning documentary filmmaker, Ivana Todorovic, would like to invite you to an evening of anti–gun violence short films and community discussion...
While the mainstream media outlets focused on the destruction to the city of Oakland during the so-called “riots” following the verdict in the Oscar Grant trial earlier this month, community online newsmagazine ColorLines called attention to the community organizations and activists working hard to...
July 24th, 2010 is The National Day of Action to Silence The Violence. Our partner and the subject of one of our videos, the great violence prevention youth organization United Playaz of Banana Kelly High School, has teamed up with Urban Peace Movement and 106 KMEL to create a truly National event...
When people start learning about gun violence in our country, they're often baffled that such a privileged, advanced nation would allow guns to infect our communities to the extent that they do, with barely any restriction. How has one institution gained so much power that they defeat a public...
We were going to try to give our Colbert-posting a rest, but we couldn't resist posting this terrific episode from last night featuring our brilliant partner, Jackie Hilly, from New Yorkers Against Gun Violence.
I can't imagine it's easy to be a guest on Colbert's show, and Jackie was pitch...
Yesterday the verdict was handed down on the problematic shooting of 22-year-old unarmed black man Oscar Grant in Oakland, CA by BART police officer Johannes Mehserle in January 2009. Unfortunately, this was another instance of police brutality in which justice was not served for the family that...
Laws for carrying concealed firearms vary widely by state, as do issuing standards for permits. New York, New Jersey and Connecticut do not honor other states’ permits. Some states allow nonresidents to apply for permits, including Utah whose lax regulations for the application process and broad...
Stephen Colbert does it again. One of the reasons he's so brilliant is that people on both sides of a political debate believe that he's with them. No matter what side he's on (maybe neither?) he does a remarkable job of imitating people at the height of their absurdity, as he does here with gun...
The Coalition to Stop Gun Violence is a terrific resource for anyone who is new to the issue of gun violence in our country, or who would like to learn more about why the United States struggles with this issue more than any other high income nation. In their organizational description, they...
