Memorial Day Black Americans Were Nearly Erased From Memorial Day's History Many cities claim to have celebrated Memorial Day first, but the true earliest version of the commemoration — organized by Black residents of Charleston, South Carolina — was nearly erased from history.
Uvalde school shooting Arm Teachers to Take Down Gunmen When Police Can't, Says Gun Owners' Representative The gunman who killed 19 students and 2 teachers at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, couldn’t be stopped by police for at least 40 minutes after the attack began. A representative for the Gun Owners of America says one solution is to let teachers carry guns too — to take down mass shooters when police can’t.
South Carolina Don't Overlook Memorial Day's Black, Southern Roots The first Memorial Day, organized by Black residents of Charleston, South Carolina, was nearly erased from history. In 1865, a group of Black Charlestonians exhumed a mass, unmarked grave filled with the bodies of Union soldiers, and then gave them proper burials. LX News storyteller Jalyn Henderson speaks with David Blight, a historian who uncovered the Memorial Day history —...
gun violence Doctor: U.S. Needs to Regulate Guns Like It Regulated Tobacco In the 1980s, Surgeon General C. Everett Koop pushed for cigarettes to be seen as a public health issue. Today, “guns are the cigarettes of 2022,” says Harvard physician Dr. Aditi Nerurkar, who joined LX News to discuss the mass shooting in Uvalde, Texas.
Uvalde school shooting Security Expert: Texas Cops' Response to Uvalde Shooting ‘Unconscionable' “Getting to the shooter himself and containing him is the primary job the law enforcement have in such an emergency,” says Robert McCrie, security management professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice. He discussed the standard law enforcement procedure for responding to active shooters and the school safety standards that have been in place since the Columbine attacks in 1999.
misinformation No, the Texas Shooter Wasn't Transgender. Here's How That Misinformation Spread So Quickly As news of the Uvalde school shooting broke, false rumors began to spread that the shooter, Salvador Ramos, was transgender. People including Rep. Paul Gosar, Alex Jones and Candace Owens shared photos of a trans woman from Georgia unconnected to the shooter and said she was Ramos. As NBC OUT reporter Jo Yurcaba explains, the misinformation originated on 4chan, a...
gun control The NRA Spends More on Voters Than Politicians The NRA annual meeting will take place in Houston this weekend, just days after the mass shooting in Uvalde, Texas, 280 miles away. NBCLX Political Editor Noah Pransky joins LX News from Uvalde, and explains how the group influences politics through more than just its campaign donations to candidates.
Uvalde school shooting Student Activist: ‘We Are Past the Thoughts and Prayers Phase' After the mass shooting that killed 19 children and two teachers in Uvalde, Texas, “we want to see bills, policies and laws changing to save lives,” says Ade Osadolor-Hernandez of Students Demand Action. She joined LX News to talk about preventative policies that might have stopped the Uvalde shooter.
fan controlled football Quarterback Cut After Celebrating Touchdown by Smoking Joint on Field Quarterback Jason Stewart pulled a joint from his uniform pants and lit it during a game in Fan Controlled Football
gun control Why NY's Gun Laws Weren't Tough Enough to Stop the Buffalo Shooter New York has some of the toughest state gun laws in the country, but even that wasn’t enough to stop a gunman from killing 10 shoppers at a grocery store in Buffalo, New York, this month. In the wake of another mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, NBCLX storyteller Ngozi Ekeledo took a look at New York’s...
