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Chicago Residents Support More Crime Prevention but Oppose Trump’s National Guard Plan
Cedric Hawkins doesn’t take his age lightly. At 44, he’s had nine relatives killed by gun violence. “Only one of my family members made it to be in his 40s,” Hawkins said. After growing up around gangs in Chicago and having served time in prison, Hawkins now works with the anti-gun violence group Chicago CRED in part as a violence mediator, trying to stop gun violence before it has the chance to start.
3 Columbia deans resign after being removed earlier this summer for ‘very troubling’ antisemitic text messages
Three Columbia University deans who were permanently removed from their posts earlier this summer after the university’s president said they engaged in “very troubling” text messages that “touched on antisemitic tropes” have resigned, a school spokesperson confirmed to CNN on Thursday.
Video of fatal shooting involving 5 Chicago police officers expected to be released today
Body camera footage of a deadly police-involved shooting is expected to be released Tuesday, an attorney for the slain man’s family and a source from Chicago’s Civilian Office of Police Accountability told CNN.
Final chance for survivors of Tulsa Race Massacre - ‘this is it’
There are only two people alive who remember firsthand what the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre was like.
‘I consider myself very lucky’: This man was one of the last to make it off the Baltimore bridge before its collapse
It was just past 1 a.m. on March 26 and Larry DeSantis was headed to his second job at Herman’s Bakery in the Baltimore area -– the halfway point of another long, but normal workday.