The causes of violence arise from a complex web of community issues that inevitably affect our schools.
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Silverman: Fear of violence was part of my high school experience. Now it extends to national politics, too.
I was taught long ago at George Washington High School that the melting pot represented the ideal vision of America.
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Opinion: We won’t end youth violence until we deal with the traumas that precede it
We need public policies that prioritize trauma recognition and resolution – before it explodes into a crime or implodes into suicide.
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Opinion: The return of the Lavender Scare
The moral panic about queer people is back, in a more potentially violent form.
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Drew Litton: Tough market for humanity futures
More cartoons from The Colorado Sun.
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What’d I Miss?: Police response to violins and violence
Ossie has trouble reconciling the police response to a peaceful violin performance to honor the memory of Elijah McClain and the sometimes chummy reception the Trump mob received at the U.S. Capitol.
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Opinion: The shadow pandemic requires new thinking to help those who need a safe home
As the world has sought safety and protection from the coronavirus pandemic inside our homes, these safe havens are also at the center of domestic violence. Worldwide, the data is alarming with dramatic increases of calls to domestic abuse hotlines surging by 30-55% in places like the United Kingdom, France and Latin America, and across […]
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Wilson: Yes, black people care when our people kill
The news of 17-year-old Nathaniel Poindexter being shot to death at the Aurora Town Center knocked the wind out of me. I know the Poindexter family, and have known them for over two decades. Denver’s black community is small like that. Families know families, and all the business therein. Therefore, it couldn’t help but hit […]
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These employees survived the Planned Parenthood shooting. They say the organization could have done more to help them.
Cristina Jiminez, assistant manager of the Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs, felt the “warm whisper” of a bullet passing by her head as she hid on the floor of a bathroom during a gunman’s five-hour rampage in 2015. Lindsey Raymond, a health center assistant, holed up in a room with a patient she’d never […]
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Drew Litton: Public Service Announcement
More cartoons from The Colorado Sun.