At our last Woke & Winning event featuring former ATF Agent and Project Director for the National Law Enforcement Partnership to Prevent Gun Violence, Mark Jones, we explored the topic of community policing and mental health on the part of both the police officer and the citizens. And we all agreed that a cop who is struggling with mental health issues is as deadly as a surgeon with a scalpel who is having an anxiety attack while operating on your heart. The possibility of li

At the Woke & Winning Youth Action Workshop series event on Thursday held at the WasteShed, a creative reuse center in Humboldt Park, there was a lot of good conversation about the politics of gun reform and the impact of the divisiveness of the gun debate in America. In our group, which ranged in age from 16 to 55 and had a racial mix of black, white, and Latino participants, there was a strong feeling that the root of the issue is tied up in people's ideas of patriotism — W