“In five years Dante McFallo went from White House honoree to dying in a hail of bullets on New Year’s Day.”
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‘She Made Us Happy’: The All-Star Dreams of Uvalde’s Biggest José Altuve Fan
In this hard but necessary read, Roberto José Andrade Franco writes about one Uvalde family’s loss, and a small-town Texas community on the edge of the Nueces Strip that has changed forever. Franco beautifully honors the life of 10-year-old Tess Mata, a softball player and student murdered in the Robb Elementary School shooting, and traces […]
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How America’s Gun Laws Are Failing Domestic Violence Victims
“From 2017 through 2020, Reveal identified at least 110 intimate partners and others who were fatally shot by offenders using weapons they weren’t allowed to possess under federal and, in some cases, state law.”
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Two Kids, a Loaded Gun and the Man Who Left a 4-Year-Old to Die
The children will never recover from what happened inside a D.C. apartment. The owner of the illegal gun faces far less serious consequences.
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Life and Love in the Utah Desert
Learning lessons about love while living in a 1961 Artcraft mobile home in Moab, Utah.
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Holding the Pain
Amye Archer explores her own relationship with the shooting at Sandy Hook as she works with survivors to tell their stories.
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Holding the Pain
Amye Archer explores her own relationship with the shooting at Sandy Hook as she works with survivors to tell their stories.
Posted inEditor's Pick, Essays & Criticism, Featured, Nonfiction
Holding the Pain
Amye Archer explores her own relationship with the shooting at Sandy Hook as she works with survivors to tell their stories.
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‘What if people found out?’ On the White Male Suicide Epidemic
“I got home and went back to the fetal position for a week.”
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‘There’s Virtually No Conversation In Chicago … About the Aftershocks of the Violence.’
In “An American Summer,” journalist Alex Kotlowitz tries to report on gun deaths on Chicago’s South Side with the same attention to survivors, anniversaries, and aftershocks that is paid to mass shootings.