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Security at the U.S. Embassy in Haiti has been reinforced as the situation worsens in the country. The U.S. military airlifted personnel to the embassy compound in Port-au-Prince, aiming to bolster security measures and facilitate the departure of nonessential staff. The move comes amid escalating gang violence in the area surrounding the embassy. Text “RICKEY” […]

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Sixty one people were shot in the Windy City this holiday weekend and of those marked by gun violence, 11 died from their wounds.

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August 2016 was Chicago’s deadliest month in nearly two decades, leaving the city’s streets riddled with shell casings and bloodshed from mostly African-American bodies.  According to the Chicago Police Department’s crime statistics, an astonishing 474 people were victims of homicide in 2016. In August alone, there were 92 deaths, a number slightly lower than July 1993 […]

A team of scholars analyze how social media posts escalate into violence. The scholars are calling it a public health problem.

This past weekend, the brothers of Alpha Phi Alpha, a historic Black fraternity, took to the streets of Chicago and held steadfast in the midst…

Buzzing Chicago artist Chance The Rapper (pictured) was instrumental in a social media campaign that led to a quieting of the escalating gun violence in…