More than a dozen spoken word artists performed pieces inspired by gun violence at local restaurant Busboys and Poets in Washington D.C. the night before the March for Our Lives. Busboys and Poets, established in 2005, is a community gathering place named after the American poet Langston Hughes, who worked as a busboy at the […]
A Milwaukee woman travelled alone almost 800 miles to Washington D.C. to participate in the March for Our Lives last weekend. Patricia Herzog-Mesrobian strolled up and down the Amtrak train from Chicago to Washington, D.C. with a smile on her face, one of the more social passengers on the train. Herzog-Mesrobian spent 16 years working as […]
A Washington, D.C. Lyft driver from Virginia is, literally and figuratively, at the intersection of the most controversial topic in the country, having witnessed extreme gun violence and later purchasing several guns. Elton Howard, who is African-American, was 7 years old when he was sitting in a car with his mother, her estranged husband, and […]
Two vendors at the Virginia Gun Collectors Association Gun Show shared their knowledge of gun history, the Civil War and Confederate monuments the day after the March for Our Lives drew thousands of protesters a short drive away. Paul Goss and his partner, Christy Forman, sit behind a table littered with historical weapons, battlefield brochures […]
National Rifle Association and U.S. veteran hats floated around the Prince William County Fairgrounds during the Virginia Gun Collectors Association Gun Show, on the same weekend as the March for Our Lives in Washington D.C. The V.G.C.A is a non-profit organization that serves approximately 350 members with interests ranging from muskets to machine guns. The […]
It’s the night before March for Our Lives, and Lafayette Square teems with anti-gun protesters, a few counter-protesters, and Washington, D.C. tourists. Two teenagers are posted in front of the White House, youthful sentries braving the cold. “I came from Douglas to protest for my 17 friends who can’t!!!” their construction paper-and-marker protest sign reads. […]