Year: 2016

Mothers In Charge is a group that we really want to be out of business. We don’t want to continue to have mothers come to us because they had to bury their children. (Read more.)

Dorothy Johnson-Speight, founder and executive director for Mothers In Charge, said homicides should be treated with all the seriousness of diseases, the Ebola virus and other public health threats. (Read more.)

Philadelphia officials come together to reflect on the lives of those who died as a result of a violent crime. (Read more.)

Acknowledging the National Day of Remembrance for Murder Victims
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Although Mothers in Charge is relatively small, it has hosted national conferences on the costs of violence; held rallies at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington; and has appeared frequently in local news media like The Philadelphia Inquirer. It has grown into a national organization, opening chapters in Los Angeles, St. Louis and other cities. (Read more.)

A simple gun lock can save a life and in Philadelphia, the city’s new gun law forces gun owners to lock up their guns when they are not being used. (Read more.)

National organization advancing new safety priorities. We bring together state leaders, advocates and crime survivors to reform justice policy. (Read more.)

At a morning rally, hundreds turned out for the gun-control demonstration, which called on politicians to pass “common-sense” legislation that would impose stricter background checks and limitations on purchasing semiautomatic weapons. (Read more.)

Held during National Crime Victims’ Week (Read more.)