Gloria Cruz, 48, has been at the forefront of the fight against gun violence in the South Bronx for the last five years. Cruz is the Founder and President of the Bronx Chapter of our partner organization New Yorkers Against Gun Violence. She also founded the annual Mott Haven Mother’s Day walk...
Thanks to a generous matching grant from The Knight Foundation and New York Community Trust, DCTV will bring Beyond Bullets to 7 NYC communities in Spring 2010. We are thrilled to be working with emerging journalists and filmmakers to explore the issue of gun violence throughout the city and to...
On April 27, 2010, our partners at New Yorkers Against Gun Violence will host its annual Albany Lobby Day in Albany, NY. Hundreds of teenagers from Brooklyn, the Bronx, Manhattan, Long Island, Westchester and Buffalo will pay a visit to their state and city leaders to discuss the issue of gun...
November 16, 2009 Vada Vasquez, a sophomore at Bronx Latin School, was walking home from school in the afternoon when she was struck in the head by a bullet aimed at someone else. The 15-year-old was in critical condition after undergoing surgery, but she miraculously survived although the parts of...
On Tuesday February 23, 2010, a man armed with a high-powered rifle shot two young students in the parking lot of their middle school at 3:30pm. The Deer Creek Middle School in Littleton, Colorado is just 3 miles from Columbine High School, where one of the most infamous and deadly school shootings...
Last year, Christina Waters was a happy 18-year-old girl ready to make the big move from Chicago to attend college in Virginia. On a summer afternoon on July 25, 2009, Christina attended a church picnic where shots rang out from unidentified gunmen and a stray bullet struck the teen in the left...
Representative Bobby Rush, of Illinois, has introduced a new firearm bill to the House. It's entitled H.R.45: Blair Holt's Firearm Licensing and Record of Sale Act of 2010. But don't google it. If you do, you'll have to parse through a series of warnings and tirades comparing the bill to something...
The Pine Ridge Indian Reservation located in South Dakota has seen a large increase in gang-related crime in recent years. There are at least 39 gangs on the reservation, with 5,000 young men from the Oglala Sioux tribe.
Poverty, unemployment, and alcoholism have made many young men join groups...
The Brady Campaign To Prevent Gun Violence recently published an updated report entitled “Major School Shootings in the United States Since 1997.” The report lists approximately 145 separate incidents of school shootings in the United States since January of 1997 through September of 2009, 64 of...
Davonte Kelly and Denia Kearse, both 11 years old, were struck by stray bullets in two separate shootings over the past year and made full recoveries from their life-threatening injuries, but they cannot ignore the psychological trauma the attacks inflicted. Their ability to enjoy their childhoods...
