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The 2021 National Youth Poet Laureate, 24, used her platform to call out gun violence in America, posing a poignant question about the future of children's safety in schools. Schools scared to ...
This book contains 50 poems by American poets, and each poem is paired with a response by a survivor of a shooting, a community activist, or a leader in the gun violence prevention movement. Widely praised, Bullets into Bells was recognized by The New York Times , The Washington Post , PBS , Poets & Writers , Rain Taxi , and other publications.
" ' No Way to Prevent This,' Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens" is the recurring headline of articles published by the American news satire organization The Onion after mass shootings in the United States. The articles satirize and lament the country's failure, unique among developed countries, to prevent gun violence. [2] [3] [4]
"If We Must Die" is a poem by Jamaican-American writer Claude McKay (1890–1948) published in the July 1919 issue of The Liberator magazine. McKay wrote the poem in response to mob attacks by white Americans upon African-American communities during the Red Summer. The poem does not specifically reference any group of people, and has been used ...
On a small table adjacent to a red couch, Doris Hernandez keeps the last photo of her late son amid dozens of crosses, a rosary and a Bible with worn pages bearing the weight of countless prayers.
Marita Cole is a survivor of gun violence. Her son, William, was shot and killed in a Lexington street on May 22, 2017. ... victims and families committed to fighting gun violence across America.
A ball turret was a Plexiglas sphere set into the belly of a B-17, B-24, B-25, B-32 and inhabited by two .50 caliber machine guns and one man, a short small man. When this gunner tracked with his machine guns a fighter attacking his bomber from below, he revolved with the turret; hunched upside-down in his little sphere, he looked like the ...
In America, guns are a shortcut to capability, an instant equalizer allowing even the weak-minded and the lily-livered to stand their ground, Leonard Pitts argues.