Feb 13 Watch 3:50 Parkland's legacy: Heightened security, stricter dress codes and political advocacy By Student Reporting Labs A year after a gunman killed 17 at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, the lives and outlooks of students across the country are also permanently altered. The NewsHour’s Student Reporting Labs spoke to several of them about… Continue watching
Jan 27 Watch 4:38 Last school year, 4 million students were on lockdown By PBS NewsHour During the last school year, more than 4 million students participated in at least one lockdown, most often in response to a perceived gun or violent threat, a Washington Post report found. And these perceived threats, psychologists say are causing… Continue watching
Jan 27 Watch 25:01 January 27, 2019 - PBS NewsHour Weekend full episode By PBS NewsHour On this edition for Sunday, Jan. 27, government employees prepare to head back to work while the deadlock for funding a border wall continues, and a new Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo is the deadliest in the… Continue watching
Nov 13 Death of black security guard by white police officer draws call for investigation By Don Babwin, Associated Press Footage from surveillance or body cameras could explain whether Roberson was clearly identifiable as a security guard. Audio could determine what, if anything, was said to the officer before the shooting. Continue reading
Nov 09 Watch 4:13 Remembering the 12 lives cut short in the Thousand Oaks shooting A sheriff’s deputy about to retire, an aspiring soldier, a Marine Corps veteran, a survivor of the Las Vegas massacre and a Pepperdine University freshman were among the dead in Wednesday night’s mass shooting at a bar in Thousands Oaks,… Continue watching
Sep 04 Parkland victim's father approaches Kavanaugh during confirmation hearing By Associated Press Fred Guttenberg, whose daughter Jamie died in the February 2018 attack, approached Kavanaugh after he rose from the witness table for a lunch break. He put out his hand to Kavanaugh, who paused for a moment before turning away as… Continue reading
Aug 21 A poet grows up in the post-Columbine world By Jennifer Hijazi Kelly Forsythe's latest collection “Perennial” imagines a different kind of narrative in the wake of the Columbine High School shooting -- a “coming-of-age” story about what it means when feeling safe has drastically changed. Continue reading
Aug 09 Watch 8:00 David and Lauren Hogg never thought it would happen in Parkland. Now they say #NeverAgain It’s been almost six months since the massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, where 17 people were killed. But out of that tragedy emerged a group of students dedicated to preventing future school shootings, including David… Continue watching
Aug 07 Watch 6:37 How Chicago communities are trying to stop gun violence Sixty-six people were shot over the weekend in Chicago, and behind those numbers are stories of the victims and their families. Nick Schifrin talks with Lance Williams of Northeastern Illinois University and Tamar Manasseh of Mothers and Men Against Senseless… Continue watching
Aug 06 In spasm of gun violence, 11 killed and nearly 70 wounded in Chicago weekend shootings By Associated Press The violence peaked early Sunday, including one shooting on the city's South Side that wounded eight people. Continue reading