A mother was fatally shot in Chicago. Authorities said she was caught in a crossfire while standing outside with her 1-year-old daughter.

Four Georgia teens pursued summer jobs to stay out of trouble. They were pressured to join neighborhood gangs.

A team of scholars analyze how social media posts escalate into violence. The scholars are calling it a public health problem.

According to new reports, on Wednesday a judge appointed a special administrator to oversee Prince‘s estate and also set a court date for next week to begin deciding who should inherit the singer’s fortune. District Court Judge Kevin Eide assigned Bremer Trust, Prince’s longtime bank, to maintain his estate until an executor is chosen by the […]

Former Sec. of Education Arne Duncan takes new job in Chicago to help high school dropouts. He plans to create a program to teach them job skills to escape gang life.

So, NOBODY saw this as a bad idea?? An Arkansas high school held an assembly focused on gangs and drugs and ONLY invited Black students. You can’t make this stuff up. The district said the assembly was part of court-ordered desegragation efforts to create programs focused on minorities. In hindsight, the school regrets is decision, […]

An arrest has been made in Chicago in the shooting death of nine-year-old Tyshawn Lee.

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Corey Morgan is a person of interest in the shooting death of 9-year-old Tyshawn Lee.

Police say the child was targeted because of his father's gang ties and a string of shootings between rival gangs. A basketball the boy often carried to and from school was found near his body.

They say crime doesn’t pay, but over time, gangsters have proven otherwise. In the early part of the 20th century, a gangster’s profit was measured…

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New York City police have arrested and charged a man in connection with the shooting that killed a Bronx resident as he was holding his toddler…

The key elements of hip-hop have been well documented over the years, but director Shan Nicholson uncovers the layers of what brought the genre into…