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Sandy Hook School Shooting

Amor “Lilman” Arteaga in "Stop Da Violence"

9-year-old Brooklyn boy raps about Sandy Hook

Alexis Garrett Stodghill
theGRIO REPORT - This week, Amor 'Lilman' Arteaga, a nine-year-old Flatbush-raised rapper, dedicated his latest opus 'Stop Da Violence' to the victims of the Sandy Hook massacre...
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A banner attached supporting victims of the Newtown, Connecticut school shooting

On the Sandy Hook tragedy: The God we know

Theodore R. Johnson
ESSAY - We can’t answer why awful people choose to kill our children, whether in 1963 Birmingham or 2012 Newtown. We don’t know why God allows those things to happen...
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Candles are lit among mementos at a memorial for victims of the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary

Sandy Hook massacre puts mental health in the national spotlight

Alexis Garrett Stodghill
According to numerous reports, Adam Lanza, the 20-year-old who killed 20 children and seven adults in Newtown, Connecticut last Friday before killing himself, allegedly suffered from Asperger’s syndrome.
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Bianca Jagger (4th L) and the Rev. Jesse Jackson (4th R) walk in the Million Mom March May 9, 2004 in Washington, DC. Activists marched down Constitution Avenue to kick off a national campaign to save America's assault weapons law, which is scheduled to expire in September. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)

How the assault weapons ban has been assaulted

David A. Love
theGRIO REPORT - The recent massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut—the second worst school shooting in U.S. history, behind the Virginia Tech shooting in 2007— has renewed calls for the reinstatement of the assault weapons ban...
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Sandy Hook

Sandy Hook's survivors face trauma

Dr. Jeff Gardere
HEALTH - How will the children who survived the Connecticut school children cope with the trauma they've undergone...?
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