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Chicago
Tim King founded Urban Prep Academies to help Chicago’s young black men succeed. Each time a current or former student is killed in a shooting, he has the difficult task of delivering the news.
Community Violence
A shared stage at the DNC spotlights how three forms of violence feed into one another.
Philadelphia
A double-digit increase in the gun homicide rate may prime the hometown audience for the party's calls for tougher firearms laws.
Focusing on the neighborhood level is the best way to understand violence in America. Here are six charts that prove it.
Years of research indicate that police abuse can contribute to the conditions that make everyday gun violence harder to stop.
An interactive map of shootings shows that near Cleveland's Quicken Loans Arena alone, at least 23 people were hit by gunfire between June 2015 and June 2016.
Asir Brown, a teenager from Philadelphia, is one of at least 71 people shot at a barbecue this year.
A "Becoming a Man" counselor on how he helps kids persevere in a city where shootings are everyday occurrences.
The massacre at Pulse nightclub was the beginning of a typically bloody week in the U.S.
Oakland peace activist Michael McBride says politicians need to support successful violence-reduction programs, like Ceasefire
City Limits
Four years ago, Dexter Mercurius moved his family to Brooklyn from Guyana for a better life. Now he’s burying his oldest child.
There were 121 gunshot fatalities in the U.S. on Saturday and Sunday.
In a 14-year span, the city’s African-American population plummeted by an estimated 200,000.
"So you think we’re doomed?” asks one mother living in a city where more than 100 people have been shot already this year.
A pair of sociologists explain how nurturing kids' passions — whether for anime, customizing cars, or raising pigeons — has the power to reduce illegal behaviors.
