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 […]
“So, I am a huge history nerd. I’ve been into guns since I was about 11-years-old, and I could tell you everything about this gun right here,” Chris Chen said, motioning to a 100-year-old Russian weapon hanging on the wall. “With the old guns, it’s like they all tell a story, and trying to figure […]
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 […]