This Parkland Shooting Survivor Was the Third in Her Family to Escape a Gun Attack
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Curtosy of the Tylim family; Mother JonesDani Tylim was taking a math test at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida on February 14 when the fire alarm started ringing. Confused, the 18-year-old junior evacuated to a field by the school’s tennis courts. That’s when she heard the gunshots. “I thought…
Teenagers Pour Into the Streets Calling for Gun Control After Parkland Shooting
Students call for gun control outside the White House on Wednesday. Kara Voght/Mother Jones Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Busloads of teenagers arrived in Tallahassee overnight to continue their calls for gun control hundreds of miles from the site of a mass shooting that left 17 dead and 14 others injured at a…
Outraged Students Demand Action on Gun Violence After Florida Massacre
Screen shot via NBC News Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Students across the country are speaking out and demanding action against gun violence following the mass shooting Wednesday at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida that left 17 people dead and at least 14 others injured. In a…
“I Want Four Years Where I’m Not Judged by the Color of My Skin”
Graduates at commencement at Howard University in 2014.Jose Luis Magana/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Historically black colleges and universities made headlines during Trump’s first year, as students pushed back against what they perceived as a racist administration. Last May, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos was booed during her commencement speech…
Florida Sheriff: No Known White Supremacist Connection in School Shooting
Students released from a lockdown embrace following following a shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla.John McCall/South Florida Sun-Sentinel/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Update 5:16 pm ET: The Leon County Sheriff’s Office told the Tallahassee Democrat on Thursday that they knew of no information linking Cruz…
Sen. Chris Murphy Slams Congress’ “Inaction” On Gun Violence After Florida Shooting
Alex Edelman/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. As news broke of a deadly shooting at a high school in southern Florida, Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) took to the Senate floor to condemn Congress’ “inaction” in addressing gun violence. “This happens nowhere else other than the United States of America, this epidemic of mass…