Parkland

By Samantha Deater — After the horrific 2018 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, young Florida voters — and teenagers not yet old enough to cast a ballot — became motivated to participate like never before. Such mass shooting events, and what local candidates are or aren’t doing to prevent them…

America listens to a faltering heart beat. Uvalde, Texas, May 24, 2022 It takes a tragic loss for America to take inventory. Something so rudimentary as assessing ‘the stock in hand,’ requires a loss. After the funeral and we put away slowly the dark suits and dresses, put up the…

I am squid ink. Did you forget? My rage is fading fears into the well like rainwater against the peonies of a morning’s pause. I can’t be bothered anymore. Did you forget? My oily residue coats blank black dark with expectation and reward, the poet’s minaret a sharpened quill to write the sky, unworthy prayers into…

This is quite frankly one of the most shocking and truly sad stories I have ever encountered. A student survived the Stoneman Douglas school shooting in 2018 where 17 of his classmates were killed and 17 others seriously injured. That by itself is traumatic, but what has completely and totally…

By Jill Fox The sound of the news helicopters brought back memories of my days in the feed room at NBC, and watching the chopper land right outside my window. In those days, the news was bad — I saw horrible things I often still think about. Sheets draped over…

By Abbey Clements, Sarah Lerner and Randi Weingarten Two of us are survivors of two of the worst school shootings in American history, and the other is the president of the American Federation of Teachers. Combined, we have more than 50 years of experience in the classroom. We know firsthand…

By Taylor Rea, Cydney Traylor, Bhavya Shukla and Safiya Safri November 21, 2020 When the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting took place in Parkland, Florida, on February 18, 2020, rather than honing in specifically on the survivors and effects of the shooting, one thing the media focused heavily on was…