On Tuesday, at the end of the first day of the Senate confirmation hearings for Brett Kavanaughâs possible appointment to the U.S. Supreme Court, a man came over to him with his hand outstretched attempting to shake the nomineeâs hand. Kavanaugh looked at the man and then turned and walked away.
Andrew Medina, a security monitor at Parkland, Fla.âs Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, saw accused shooter Nikolas Cruz step onto campus the day of the massacre. Despite suspecting that something was wrongâMedina said he radioed another monitor and told him to âkeep your eyesâ openâMedina himself didnât confrontâŠ
Scot Peterson, the armed officer captured on video waiting outside Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., as a shooter gunned down 17 people inside, says that if he knew then what he knows today, he would have been in the school âin a heartbeat.â
This week, another white guy with guns went on a rampage and senselessly killed innocent victims.
Man, you really canât make this stuff up, and if the stakes werenât so high and the repercussions so tragic, it would be hilarious.
After the shooting and killing of 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, the accused gunman now wants to donate his six-figure inheritance to the victims to help âheal the community.â
In the 24 hours it takes for this column to be written, edited, copy edited and uploaded to The Root and to end up on your phone, about 318 people across the United States will have been shot (in fact, the shooting at YouTube headquarters happened between writing my first and second drafts of this column). Thatâs justâŠ
On Feb. 14, as a gunman wandered the halls of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, 15-year-old Anthony Borges was trapped in a classroom with 20 other people. As the gunman came upon the classroom and began shooting, Anthony barricaded the door with his body, preventing the shooter from entering. Everyone in thatâŠ
Life sure comes at you fast on Holy Week, huh, Laura Ingraham?
Thereâs something so beautiful about the students-turned-activists who have emerged from the awful tragedy of the Parkland, Fla., school shooting. Instead of being victims, these kids became champions for human rights and gun control, reflected in the March for Our Lives on Saturday. They have been fully embraced byâŠ
Zachary Cruz, the brother of Parkland, Fla., school shooter Nikolas Cruz, pleaded guilty Thursday to trespassing at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, the scene of his brotherâs alleged horrific crime.
On Wednesday afternoon, black students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., assembled to draw attention to their growing safety concerns since returning to classâconcerns they say may not necessarily be shared or highlighted by their white classmates, who have received the bulk of the nationalâŠ
Broward County, Fla., Public Defender Howard Finkelstein says in his 40 years as a public defender, he has never seen anyone receive as much mail as Nikolas Cruz, the 19-year-old accused of killing 17 people last month in Parkland, Fla.
Following school shooting after school shooting after school shooting, a macabre fashion trend has emerged: bulletproof backpacks.
The ability of the Parkland, Fla., school-shooting victims to organize nationwide gun control rallies less than six weeks after their school was attacked is nothing short of a political miracle. Even Byron Allen couldnât have predicted the perfect storm of demographics, inept politicians, charismatic kids and engagedâŠ
Conservative social media users are back on their bullshit (though, being âbackâ would mean they somehow left it).
A few days ago, I received a phone call from Kyla Lacey, a friend and contributor to The Root. Kyla informed me that she had received a request to appear on Laura Ingrahamâs show on Fox News and asked if I thought it was a good move.
I am here today to represent Courtlin Arrington. I am here today to represent Hadiya Pendleton. I am here today to represent Taiyania Thompson, who at just 16 was shot dead at her home in Washington, D.C. I am here to acknowledge and represent the African-American girls whose stories donât make the front page of everyâŠ
During an Axios event Friday that focused on the national gun debate, Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School student David Hogg was asked by Axios co-founder Mike Allen what the mediaâs biggest mistake was during the shooting at his school in Parkland, Fla. He responded that media outlets failed to highlight the voicesâŠ
In the wake of the horrific Feb. 14 mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., former President Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama sent the students a heartfelt, handwritten note, expressing how inspired they were by the determination and resilience of student protestersâŠ
