A few months ago for Domestic Violence Awareness Month, I wrote about the unlikely connection between domestic violence and gun violence, and how the intersection of these two issues has resulted in continuous threats to women’s safety in the United States.

2016 is off to a great start in the fight for social justice! On Tuesday, President Obama issued an executive order against gun violence.

Last weekend, we had our first L’Taken Social Justice Seminar of the season. Two students, Ian Berlin and Eddie Jenkins from Temple Sinai in Washington D.C., spoke eloquently about our country’s flawed background check system, and were able to thank their

On December 14, 2012, almost three years ago, a gunman murdered twenty children and six educators at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut.

Gun violence is plaguing our country and impacting the lives of so many. Each year, a gun kills nearly 12,000 Americans. This is a rate more than 20 times higher than in other developed countries. For example, while the U.S.

This blog originally appeared on the WRJ blog

Every October, people around the country observe Domestic Violence Awareness Month (DVAM).

As the Second Amendment notes, a nation has the responsibility to ensure the security of its people. The United States is failing in that regard, but it isn't a threat from abroad that imperils us; it's a threat from within.

It's the threat of indifference to

On Thursday, there was sadly another tragic shooting, this time at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Oregon. A gunman, thought to be 20 years old, fired shots in the school’s science building.

Summer 2015 was a historic and momentous summer: we applauded when the Supreme Court affirmed key tenets of the Affordable Care Act in King v. Burwell; we welcomed the much overdue new LGBT inclusion bill when it was introduced in Congress; and we were called