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*Snoop Lion is joining forces with a campaign group to help put an end to gun violence. The rapper, formerly known as Snoop Dogg, has teamed with the League of Young Voters Education Fund’s No Guns Allowed movement, which was inspired by a song he wrote in response to recent shooting rampages. “’No Guns Allowed’ [...]
*For a long time, rap music has been a part of the growing trend of violence across the country. In a discussion on CBS News’ “Sunday Morning,” hip hop mogul 50 Cent argued that there is little to no connection between hip hop and gun violence. The multi-talented rapper explained that his music is a [...]
*In her Chicago hometown today to address the city’s catastrophic gun violence problem, First Lady Michelle Obama held back tears as she remembered Hadiya Pendleton, a 15-year-old who performed in President Barack Obama’s inauguration festivities and was shot and killed in Chicago days later. [Scroll down to watch.] “Let me tell you, it is hard [...]
*MTV today announced a collaboration with Snoop Lion and Jewelry for a Cause to help take illegal guns off the streets. Beginning on Monday, April 15 – the day after the 2013 “MTV Movie Awards” – limited edition “MTV x Caliber” bracelets featuring unique serial numbers from illegal firearms returned via buyback programs in Newark, [...]
*President Obama’s “Organizing for Action” arm retweeted Yoko Ono’s photo of her murdered husband John Lennon’s bloody glasses Thursday night, just as the Senate was preparing a new gun-control package. The picture, published on Yoko Ono’s account a day earlier, contained the text: “Over 1,057,000 people have been killed by guns in the USA since [...]
*The worst of the worst occurred when the nation was shaken by the recent shooting death of Chicago honor student Hadiya Pendleton days after she performed at President Obama’s Inauguration. But unfortunately, that was not the end of tragedy in the windy city. Two teenagers, Janaye McFarlane, 18, the mother of a 3-month-old baby boy, [...]
*The above photo of a diamond-encrusted gun popped up on Kim Kardashian’s Instagram last week and all hell has broken loose. Needless to say, it was quickly taken down amid a huge backlash. Critics questioned the timing of it, which came in the wake of Kim encouraging her Twitter followers to help combat gun violence [...]
*As community members marched in memory of Hadiya Pendleton Friday, officials announced the reward for information in the slaying of the King College Prep sophomore has been increased to $40,000. Chicago Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy and other police officials announced the increased reward in advance of an anti-violence march in her honor that left from [...]
*D.L. Hughley offered an interesting take on how to reach those conservatives who don’t believe in any tougher gun laws, suggesting that we “stop calling them gun deaths… call them really late, late, late term abortions.” Speaking on the Tom Joyner Morning show today, the comedian in his weekly commentary for the show spoke about [...]
*Chicago’s violence has climbed to incredible heights and affected a countless many of innocent people like 15-year-old Hadiya Pendleton. A bright young and talented teen, Hadiya was gunned down Tuesday afternoon in a South Side Chicago park, not too far from the president’s old stomping grounds. RELATED: Teen Who Marched in Inauguration Parade Gunned Down [...]
*A teenage girl who performed at President Obama’s inauguration with her high school band earlier this month was shot to death Tuesday afternoon at a Chicago park, CBS Chicago reports. Police said 15-year-old Hadiya Pendleton was taking shelter from the rain under a canopy at the park with about 12 other teenagers when a man [...]
*NBC’s veteran reporter Tom Brokaw is in the cross hairs of at least one conservative radio host for comparing silence on gun violence to not speaking out during segregation. Brokaw, referred to as “Broke-Jaw” by radio host Mark Levin, had made the comments Thursday on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” comparing the “good people” who stayed in [...]
*It seems that the Fiscal Cliff isn’t the only debate gaining momentum. There is still the major issue of gun control reform making a segue into 2013, and activists and politicians are choosing sides…well, except Jesse Jackson. When visiting CNN and asked about the gun control issue, though he gave profound insight into the issue [...]
*Several hours after a national moment of silence was observed for those killed in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings, the National Rifle Association made its first public comments about the tragedy, suggesting armed faculty and teachers could have prevented the shootings and calling on every school in the nation to have armed police guards [...]
*President Barack Obama this afternoon confirmed that Vice President Joe Biden will lead a panel to combat gun violence in the aftermath of Friday’s mass shooting in Newtown, Conn, and he is calling for proposals to be handed to him by January. [Scroll down to watch.] “The fact that this problem is complex can no [...]
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