Most of its students are black or Hispanic and come from low-income families, and most, according to the city, have faced some kind of trauma: gun violence, homelessness and drug or alcohol addiction.
Through the production of Afro-speculative design videos, Caldwell explores how rich local histories can be combined with new technologies to reimagine public spaces, and address issues of trauma, gun violence, gentrification, and police/community relations.
Workshop participants will produce speculative design videos exploring how rich local histories can be combined with new technologies to reimagine public spaces, and address issues of trauma, gun violence, gentrification, and police/community relations.
Spend some time in a trauma center and see the victims of gun violence — the lucky survivors — as they come in bloody and terrified.
Ahmad says his studies are focused on social inequalities in America, and that he plans to pursue a doctoral degree in sociology and create a new field of research that focuses on the effects of gun violence and trauma in urban education.
They just don't want to hear from any who think that others should be spared the trauma they have endured through some measure of gun control.
Baltimore has one of the nation's highest rates of gun violence, and Shock Trauma admits at least two or three shooting victims each week — often, like Brandon Littlejohn, young black men.
In the past decade, she has experienced the bitterness of losing her loved ones in attacks, the deadly fear of gun shots and the daily trauma that accompanies displacement.
Blankenship, in office since 2008, was on the verge of beginning his reelection campaign and knew that scrutinizing the pistol's owner would be unpopular, but he just couldn't shake how much trauma one gun in the hand of one 15-year-old had caused.
