Today marks one year since Fenger High School student Derrion Albert was beaten to death on his way home from classes.\r\nAnjanette Albert says her son would be a high school senior applying for college
I stood over a coffin that should never have been built. \r\nMotionless. \r\nLooking at a motionless body. \r\nA body of a sixteen-year-old kid. \r\nA kid half my age. \r\nExactly half my age. \r\nA kid who had
We come to you with a heavy heart today as we remember a young soul that was taking from this earth one year ago today. Young Derrion Albert, a Chicago honor student from Christian Fenger Academy High
VIA FOX CHICAGO\r\nThe brutal death of honors student Derion Albert shocked the world and embarrassed this city . Albert died in the vicious high school brawl caught on tape. But what happened to the
(via The Chicago Tribune)\r\nIn September they were two teens heading into senior year. Vashion \"B.J.\" Bullock and Montrell Truitt lived in the same neighborhood on the Far South Side, were classmates
(via The Chicago Tribune)
In September they were two teens heading into senior year. Vashion "B.J." Bullock and Montrell Truitt lived in the same neighborhood on the Far South Side, were classmates
by Russell Simmons\r\nTwo weeks ago, I went back to my old neighborhood of Hollis, Queens, to support the launch of the pilot program of The national Peacekeepers, an initiative that seeks to deter crime
On Friday, February 26th, 2010 three hundred Chicago public school students will gather for the Teen Summit REMIX (Responsibility Is A Lifestyle), which will give Chicago Youth a coice and platform to
Pause. Stop. Breathe. Pause. Stop. Don\'t Breathe. Pause. Stop. Live. Pause. Stop. Don\'t Live. Pause. And this got nothin\' to do about our generation\'s issues with homosexuality. That\'s for
Peace GG,\nJust four days after the Fenger High School boycott and press conference with Rev. Sharpton on Monday, students from the Gardens were out of school again today, after they say they were
I just got off the phone with Rachel Noerdlinger for Rev. Al Sharpton/National Action Network. Rachel saw my GG blog \"Chicago Under Siege\" and asked me what could Rev. Sharpton and The National Action
When it comes to youth violence, I’m not one to blame the media or television, video games or even music. I think the problem with violence starts at home and then other variables fuel that fire. The
Just got word from one of the family members of Derrion Albert that first degree murder charges of one of the four teens charged with the murder were dropped a few moments ago in court.\"At court for
As I heard the news about Derrion Albert, the 16-year-old young scholar who was murdered, my heart wept. It wept because he was murdered by a group of high schoolers-his peers, a senseless death. While
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