
Gun Trafficking & Trauma: A Woke & Winning Youth Action Summer Series Topic
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

Gun Violence: A War of Words and Weapons that has Forgotten What is at Stake
As an educator and gun violence activist, I sincerely appreciate and am heartened by youth and teachers rallying for their right to live and thrive in a country that promises so much, but has done very little to safeguard our communal spaces and our families. Instead, we've opted for gun laws that require little to no accountability for persons to their communities. We've let politicians who are responsible for this legislation convince us time and again that they are advocat