Resettled Refugees, Seeking Peace in America, Find Gun Violence Instead
In cities across the Midwest, some asylum seekers are placed in neighborhoods where housing costs are low and crime rates are high.
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Deep Anxiety Was a Fact of Life in Violent North Milwaukee Long Before the Election
In a city with a homicide rate higher than Chicago’s, residents say they feel left behind. “We have lost just about everything,” says one.
Watched By 2,000 Cops, Rattled By Two More Fatal Shootings, J’ouvert Revelers Take Stock
Gun violence again marred the annual pre-dawn Brooklyn street party, despite aggressive security measures implemented following the murder of a governor's aide last year.
Three Phone Calls You Get After Your Teenage Daughter’s Been Shot Dead
Four years ago, Dexter Mercurius moved his family to Brooklyn from Guyana for a better life. Now he’s burying his oldest child.
One City, Two Americas: Portraits From NRA Weekend in Louisville
Striking images show how gun culture is celebrated, and mourned.
Blocks From the NRA Convention, Louisville Residents Grapple with Bullets and Bloodshed
"So you think we’re doomed?” asks one mother living in a city where more than 100 people have been shot already this year.
When Fourth-Grade Problems Include Gunfire
In West Philadelphia, a teacher willing to broach a heavy subject is helping his students make sense of the shootings that shape their world.
These Haunting Poems by Fourth Graders Reveal the Toll of Gun Violence On Young Lives
Philadelphia students translate their experiences with violence into poetry.
What It Sounds Like When a Family Learns Their 7-Year-Old Is Dead From a Gunshot
“It’s really just ... something you shouldn’t have to hear.”
13 Students From a Small Historically Black University in Florida Have Been Shot in the Last 12 Months
Off-campus incidents have escalated the toll at Bethune-Cookman University, which accounts for a third of its host city’s gun violence victims during the period.
One Busy New Orleans Corner Has Seen Six Shootings in Less Than Two Years
The intersection of Rampart and Canal has experienced its share of bloodshed. But other parts of the city have it worse.
Kids Who Pick Out Their Own Caskets, and Other Voices from the Front Lines of Gun Violence
Mass shootings pushed the issue to the fore, but these excerpts from our City Limits series tell the stories of the everyday gunfire victims who still go ignored.