What’s new in Harrisburg? Besides the latest shooting death report, that is? How about its very own chapter of Mothers in Charge, a Philadelphia-based crime prevention and victim advocacy organization built on channeling the rage of women who have lost family members to violence into positive action. (Read more.)
Mothers in Charge held its annual conference earlier this week. One of the exhibits included portraits of innocent children killed by violence. (Read more.)
The second annual conference, with nearly 200 attendees and sponsored by the Philadelphia group “Mothers In Charge,” is titled “Law and Order or Vigilante Justice.” (Read more.)
Mothers in Charge will hold its second annual Cost of Violence conference beginning on Monday, bringing in speakers, including Lucia McBath, the mother of Jordan Davis, the teenage boy gunned down in Jacksonville Florida for listening to music. (Read more.)
Hundreds of people from across the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania joined with lawmakers today for a rally in Harrisburg in support of stricter gun control laws. (Read more.)
“Mothers in Charge” has been a leading voice against violence in Philadelphia, but founder Dorothy Johnson-Speight says it’s a national problem. So she has organized this week’s conference to help find solutions. (Read more.)
Here is a quick look at the first day of the Mothers in Charge National Conference on the Cost of Violence. (Read more.)
Philadelphia’s Mother’s In Charge founder, Dorothy Johnson-Speight, met with Pendleton’s mother. (Read more.)
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