Youth Violence In Our Communities: Chicago Infant Killed

March 13, 2013 – Segment 3

We discuss the tragic killing of Jonylah Watkins, a 6-month-old who was shot in Chicago earlier this week. We discuss the youth violence in Chicago and Baltimore with:

LaMarr Darnell Shields, President of the Urban Leadership Institute and founder of the PRAISE Academy;
Dawnya Jackson, Junior at the Baltimore Freedom Academy and member of the Intersection;
Bonnita Spikes, whose husband Michael was murdered in 1994, and who is now Murder Victims’ Family Members Organizer for CASE (Maryland Citizens Against State Executions);
Corey Brooks, Pastor for New Beginnings Church in Chicago;
and Phillip Jackson,Executive Director of the Black Star Project in Chicago.

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