The D.C. Peace Academy recognized its first class of violence interrupters to graduate from a program committed to raising up frontline workers in communities battling rising homicide rates.
In a shaded park on the banks of the Anacostia River, more than 20 D.C. violence interrupters received training Wednesday afternoon from a combat-experienced trauma surgeon on how to save a life before the ambulance arrives.
Five Black women and girls were killed each day in 2020, most of them with guns. Gender violence must be at the center of the gun debate, advocates say