On third anniversary of Buffalo mass shooting, mom of survivor shares story of her path into politics NABJ Black News & Views

“What we lost in the fire, we find in the ashes” is an old saying that means there is something to be found and treasured on the other side of even the worst of catastrophes. Such has been the case for the city of Buffalo and for its most recently elected city Councilwoman Zeneta B.

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Two years after Buffalo mass shooting, an art exhibit focuses on the victims

A few months after 14 May 2022, a curator sought out three local artists. The resulting exhibition, Before and After Again, is thought to be the first of its kind

Elected officials, new ‘Honor Space’ mark second anniversary of racially motivated mass shooting in Buffalo NABJ Black News & Views

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Tuesday marked the second anniversary of the fatal mass shooting at Tops Friendly Market in Buffalo’s predominantly Black Cold Springs neighborhood, where 10 lives ended violently at the hands of white supremacist Payton Gendron. The then-19-year-old drove more than three hours to the site on Buffalo’s East Side after researching for a

Biden to Congress one year after Buffalo shooting: ‘For God’s sake, do something’

President Biden in an op-ed published one year after 10 people were killed in a shooting at a supermarket in Buffalo, New York pleaded for Congress to act on gun control legislation. The shooting in Buffalo, where a gunman used an AR-15 style rifle to target Black customers, was followed the next week by the…

Violent extremists are not lone wolves – dispelling this myth could help reduce violence

The lone wolf metaphor used to describe mass shooters misinforms views of extremists – and law enforcement efforts to deter the violence.