Gun Violence
Trump threatens to send the Feds to Chicago to end the 'carnage' from violence. City officials welcomed the assistance.
Sixty one people were shot in the Windy City this holiday weekend and of those marked by gun violence, 11 died from their wounds.
A Cook County judge has ruled that Antonio Brown is not guilty of gun charges stemming the fatal shooting of his son, Amari, 7, in 2015.
The accused shooter faces a life sentence. He's expected to argue self-defense.
Daveon Coates,15 and his sister, 11-year-old Tatiyana Coates were killed in an apparent gang retaliation shooting, police say.
Radio One founder and history-maker Cathy Hughes talks about the honor of Howard University’s School of Communications being renamed after- her even though she was never a matriculated full-time student. She also reminisces about the interview she got to do with Louis Farrakhan, and some of her other favorite, well-known interviews from her network series, […]
Olympic sprinter Tyson Gay was joined by thousands of fans and loved ones on Monday night at a vigil for his late daughter Trinity Gay.
A gunman fatally shot a New York anti-violence activist in Miami. The police say he was an unintended target.
Childs' family believes she was targeted. Childs was home alone when the shooting occurred. Her body was discovered by her boyfriend when he returned home, KTRK reports.
Nearly a year after Carey Gabay, a well-respected aide to Gov. Cuomo, was fatally shot while walking from a J’ouvert celebration in New York City’s Crown Heights, Brooklyn, police have arrested a fifth suspect in a California resort city two hours east of Los Angeles, according to the New York Daily News. Kenny Bazile was arrested Thursday […]
August 2016 was Chicago’s deadliest month in nearly two decades, leaving the city’s streets riddled with shell casings and bloodshed from mostly African-American bodies. According to the Chicago Police Department’s crime statistics, an astonishing 474 people were victims of homicide in 2016. In August alone, there were 92 deaths, a number slightly lower than July 1993 […]
A boy, 10, was nearly killed in Chicago's deadliest day of gun violence in 13 years. Nineteen people were shot.