Mourners in Erfurt are responding to a recent orgy of gun violence by expressing fear that "Germany is America now." Their sentiment is being echoed across France, Great Britain and Switzerland as ...

As teenager Oswin Ortiz Jr. lay shot outside his home in 2019, his father approached him and asked who had shot him. “All he could say was ‘Snapchat’ and pointed to his phone,” police wrote in a ...

Olivia Brown presents a framework for reducing gun violence through online activism. At Project Unloaded, Olivia Brown challenges conventional views of social media to present an evidence-based ...

It is a well-known fact that the most effective way to capture someone’s attention is to evoke an emotional response. This is no different in the media when trying to get clicks and views. By simply ...

Myesha Watkins and Marlene Harris-Taylor co-host the second season of Ideastream Public Media's "Living For We" podcast. Gun violence is a leading cause of death for young people in Ohio. The problem ...

CHICAGO — Dozens of teens from the South and West sides were in the Loop Friday, pitching social media campaigns they created to help tackle gun violence. Many of the teens participating in the pitch ...

Naperville resident and civil rights attorney Qasim Rashid said he was 16 years old in 1999 when the Columbine High School mass shooting took over a dozen lives. At the time, Rashid said he thought ...

A gunman shot Charlie Kirk at a college campus on Wednesday, Sept. 10, the same day that another gunman opened fire at a school in Colorado Earlier this week, people across America were once again ...

Teens, Social Media, and Reducing Gun Violence: A Roadmap – Moderated by WTTW’s Chicago Tonight: Latino Voices Host Joanna Hernandez – Nina Vinik (Project Unloaded), Jadine Chou (CPS), Dr. Selwyn ...

People who attempt suicide, nine out of 10 times, will survive — if they don’t use a gun. But suicide attempts with a firearm are almost always fatal: nine in 10 attempts end in death. For years, ...