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T HIS STORY WAS PUBLISHED in partnership with The Trace, a nonprofit newsroom covering gun violence. Subscribe to its newsletters. One week in November 2008, Dawn Williams-Stewart showed up for work at the headquarters of the National Rifle Association, in Fairfax, Virginia, with bruises on her face. A close friend …

A report by the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Violence Solutions analyzed gun death data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which revealed that more than 48,000 people across the U.S. died from gun violence in 2022. Among those deaths, more than 2,500 children (ages one through nine) …

Aly & AJ can still hear the shots fired outside of their Sacramento concert in 2022. The sister duo had just finished the kickoff show of their A Touch of the Beat tour and were giddy for their next stop, packing their things before a show in San Francisco when …

Lucius, Liz Cooper, Coco and more have contributed covers of classic Nineties tracks for a new charity compilation, Every Possible Way, raising money and awareness for gun violence prevention. The new project was helmed by musician/producer Dan Molad, and it’ll arrive on Dec. 13 via 3Sirens. The album’s first offering …

Last year, rapper Quavo and his family met with the Congressional Black Caucus to speak about the impact that gun violence has had on their lives. The Grammy-winning musician was still in the process of grieving the death of his fellow Migos member Takeoff, who was killed after being hit …

Quavo will honor his late nephew and Migos bandmate Takeoff, and other victims of gun violence, at a special event in Atlanta with Vice President Kamala Harris. The inaugural Rocket Foundation Summit will take place June 18, on what would’ve been Takeoff’s 30th birthday, Variety reports. Quavo and Harris will …

United for Democracy, a coalition of progressive groups and labor unions, is gearing up to launch a $10 million persuasion and base activation campaign centered on “the MAGA Supreme Court.” The coalition will spend $1 million on ads in Arizona and Pennsylvania, as well as in the Washington, D.C., area, …

This commentary was written by Trevon Bosley, the co-chair of March For Our Lives. My voice is hoarse in saying it, but it bears repeating. America is faced with an unprecedented epidemic, coupled with unparalleled hypocrisy. Gun violence is the issue of our time. There have been more than 120 …

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis was booed by attendees at a Jacksonville vigil for three people shot and killed by a white supremacist gunman on Saturday. “Your policies caused this!” one member of the crowd shouted. Councilwoman Ju’Coby Pittman was forced to step in and address the crowd’s jeers. “It ain’t …

M ary Joyce’s daughter witnessed the unspeakable. “The day after the children were murdered at the school, grief therapists passed out ‘Feelings Cards‘ with faces on them to help the children identify what they were feeling,” she recalled. “My nine-year-old daughter, Monroe, who saw the shooter, the barrel of the …