by Miguel A. De La Torre | Mar 5, 2024 | Feature-, Opinion
I remember my first reaction to a mass killing. It was the summer of 1984. I was a young man in my twenties, sitting in my La-Z-Boy reading the Miami Herald. This was before mass shootings were frequent occurrences, so I was not yet desensitized. A gunman strolled...
by Starlette Thomas | Sep 18, 2023 | Feature, Opinion
A.J. Laguerre, 19, Jerald Gallion, 29, and Angela Michelle Carr, 52, were shot and killed on a Saturday afternoon at a Dollar General store in New Town, a predominantly African American neighborhood in Jacksonville, Florida. The shooter was “free, white and...
by Michael Chancellor | May 30, 2023 | Feature-, Opinion
My wife, Anna, graduated from Santa Fe High School in 1969. At the time, the community was called Alta Loma, Texas, but now is Santa Fe City. Five years ago, on Thursday, May 19, 2018, a shooter killed 10 people and injured 13 at Santa Fe High School. Five years...
by Mitch Randall | May 11, 2023 | Feature, Opinion
I’ve written twice about gun violence in the last two months. After a 28-year-old assailant walked into a private elementary school on the grounds of Covenant Presbyterian Church in Nashville, Tennessee, I called attention to certain citizens’ idolatry of the...
by Bruce T. Gourley | Apr 19, 2023 | Christian Nationalism, Feature, Opinion
“They do not seem to have a fundamental sense of right,” said New England abolitionist Frederick Olmstead while visiting the state of Tennessee in the 1850s. He was speaking of white slaveowners who imprisoned people of color in a lifetime of forced slave labor,...