For Chicago parents, Jonylah Watkins’ funeral a cautionary tale
theGRIO REPORT - Six-month-old Jonylah Watkins laid lifeless in a pink dress as her parents saw her 3-foot casket close Tuesday saying 'goodbye' for the last time...
Are gangs a bigger threat than guns in Chicago?
theGRIO REPORT - This year, Chicago received national attention because if its violence issue, a problem that along with other undesirable traditions, has plagued the city for years...
The living toll of guns: Broken bodies and minds
MSNBC - In the first of a four-part series, MSNBC speaks with Ryann Brown, who was 18-years-old when a lone gunman shot her in the head...
Prosecutor: Chicago gang war led to Hadiya Pendelton's death
CHICAGO (AP) - Two men circled a park on Chicago's South Side looking for members of a rival gang before one crept up on a group seeking shelter from the rain under a canopy and opened fire, striking a 15-year-old honor student who once made a video protesting gang violence, prosecutors said Tuesday...
Chicago woman loses 4th child to gun violence
CHICAGO (AP) - At least five people were gunned down Saturday in Chicago, including a 34-year-old man whose mother had already lost her three other children to shootings...
Violence, gangs scar Chicago community in 2012
CHICAGO (AP) - These three violent snapshots of a single Chicago street are not exceptional. It's been a bloody year in the nation's third-largest city...
Street gangs hit Native American reservations
theGRIO REPORT - Native Americans live in some of the most extreme cases of rural poverty in the world and in recent years have encountered many of the same issues plaguing some of the country’s largest urban centers...
How gang violence is tearing black America apart
theGRIO REPORT - Gang violence is a growing epidemic across America and according to the 2011 National Gang Threat Assessment, gangs are expanding, evolving, and posing an increasing threat to communities...
Will the Aurora shooter be the new face of 'stop and frisk'?
Keli Goff, a writer for Loop 21, has made a connection between Holmes and 'stop and frisk', the controversial practice employed by the NYPD...
Chicago’s crime issue will take ‘incremental change'
theGRIO REPORT - Chicago’s reputation of murderous summers has defined the metropolis for quite some time...
