About US: An epidemic unique to the United States — young shooting victims

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Sign up for this newsletter Read online Candid conversations about identity in 21st-century America.       By John Woodrow Cox  Email For five years, I've covered the effects of gun violence on children in America. I've written dozens of stories on the subject, co-created the country's most comprehensive school shootings database and published a book on the subject, "Children Under Fire: An American Crisis." But the epidemic's human cost never ceases to feel devastating. A few months ago, as it became clear that 2021 would likely shatter more gun violence records, my editor, Lynda Robinson, pitched me an idea: a collection of 12 short stories profiling children killed in each month of the year. Three other writers — Lizzie Johnson, Reis Thebault and Emily Davies — joined the project, and we all set out to find families willing to tell us about their life's worst moments. The aim was to force readers to look beyond the staggering statistics and confront the reality of who's being lost: the devoted sisters, ages 6 and 9, shot to death by their father; the artistic 15-year-old who aspired to become a nuclear physicist before using his mother's gun to kill himself; the talented 14-year-old who was shot at Oxford High just hours before her entire family was going to watch her first basketball game of the season. As I wrote in the introduction, children killed by bullets are too often memorialized only by brief news reports or anguished obituaries. But the way they lived matters as much as the way they died. Top row: Troy Dueñez, Ava and Alyse Williams, and DaMya Hudnall. Bottom row: Hana St. Juliana, Sterlyn Bullock and PJ Evans. (Family photos) In America, a child is shot every hour, and hundreds die. Here are 13 young lives lost in 2021. The country's gun violence epidemic is killing more children than ever. Who they were matters just as much as how they died. By John Woodrow Cox, Emily Davies, Lizzie Johnson and Reis Thebault ●  Read more »   ADVERTISEMENT     From The Lily U.S. quarters will feature 5 new women. What happened to other plans to change currency? News of the program, which makes Maya Angelou the first Black woman to be featured on a quarter-dollar, was met with both cheers and criticism. By Janay Kingsberry  ●  Read more »     More from The Post Exhausting Martin Luther King Jr.'s legacy Perspective ●  By Robin Givhan ●  Read more »   Indigenous tribes around Lake Superior depend on fishing to survive — but the fish are contaminated By Shantal Riley ●  Read more »   ADVERTISEMENT   A cryptic email, then a confession: How a Muslim group uncovered moles By Michelle Boorstein and Hannah Allam ●  Read more »   Portraits of fear and loss By Loveday Morris and Ruby Mellen ●  Read more »   'Crypto colonizers' in Puerto Rico try to sell locals on the dream By Nitasha Tiku ●  Read more »   Chris Dickerson, champion bodybuilder and first Black Mr. America, dies at 82 By Harrison Smith ●  Read more »   Sidney Poitier set the template for Barack Obama's rise Perspective ●  By Aram Goudsouzian ●  Read more »   Singer Chelsea Cutler shared her frustration about social media demands. It hit a nerve in the music world. By Emily Yahr ●  Read more »   Women are 32% more likely to die post-op if their surgeon is a man, study finds By Anne Branigin | The Lily ●  Read more »   Race in America: Voting Rights with Martin Luther King III The family of Martin Luther King Jr. is calling for "no celebration" on MLK Day if Congress has not passed voting rights legislation. On Friday, Jan. 14 at 11:00 a.m. Eastern time, Martin Luther King III, the late civil rights leader's eldest son and the chair of the Drum Major Institute, discusses his push around voting rights, what he thinks Congress should do about the filibuster and the lessons from his father's enduring legacy. By Washington Post Live ●  Read more »     What we're reading Chicago's 'race-neutral' traffic cameras ticket Black and Latino drivers the most By Emily Hopkins and Melissa Sanchez | ProPublica ●  Read more »   'Rylie And Codie's World': Web series highlights the hustle of young Black ballerinas — and the women who nurture them By Ta-ning Conner | Essence ●  Read more »   Carrie Bradshaw's 'Diwali' outfit fails to rewrite racist 'Sex and the City' past, fans say By Sakshi Venkatraman | NBC News ●  Read more »   Hanya's boys: The novelist tends to torture her gay male characters — but only so she can swoop in to save them By Andrea Long Chu | Vulture ●  Read more »     Word on the street   We think you'll like this newsletter Check out Must Reads for a curated selection of our best journalism in your inbox every Saturday, plus a peek behind the scenes into how one story came together. Sign up »

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