WASHINGTON (AP) — Armed security officers are becoming more prevalent at America’s schools, according to a federal study released Thursday amid a heated debate over whether teachers and other school officials should carry guns. Armed officers were present at least once a week in 43 percent of all public schools during the 2015-16 school year, […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Amid the outcry over the Florida school shootings, the Trump administration says it is “actively exploring” ways to help states expand inpatient mental health treatment using Medicaid funds. President Donald Trump again brought up the issue of mental hospitals in a meeting with governors on Monday, invoking a time when states maintained […]
In the wake of the nation’s most recent school shooting that took the lives of 17 individuals, one mayor is on a mission to keep the National Rifle Association out of his city. Dallas Mayor Pro Tem Dwaine Caraway, according to ABC 13 News, does not want the association to meet in his city. The […]
PARKLAND, Fla. (AP) — Student survivors of the deadly Florida school shooting who hope to become the face of a revived gun control movement are on a potential collision course with President Donald Trump. Several of the students have criticized the president, whose election was strongly supported by the National Rifle Association and who ran […]
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The warnings around Nikolas Cruz seemed to flash like neon signs: expelled from school, fighting with classmates, a fascination with weapons and hurting animals, disturbing images and comments posted to social media, previous mental health treatment. In Florida, that wasn’t enough for relatives, authorities or his schools to request a judicial […]
HAVANA (AP) — The eldest son of late Cuban leader Fidel Castro killed himself on Thursday after months of treatment for depression, state media reported. He was 68. Official website Cubadebate said Fidel Castro Diaz-Balart had been in a “deeply depressed state.” A brief note read on state television said his treatment had “required an […]
DENVER (AP) — He was once a standout student in law school and an Army medic who deployed to Iraq. By last weekend, he lay dead in a Colorado apartment building, killed by a SWAT team after he gunned down a 29-year-old deputy. Matthew Riehl’s six-year descent from a budding attorney to a gunman who […]
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — President Donald Trump says tougher gun laws would not have prevented a mass shooting at a south Texas church, arguing that more restrictions might have led to more casualties. Trump spoke at a news conference in South Korea Tuesday where he was asked about “extreme vetting” for gun purchases. Trump […]
Huggy Lowdown is mad this morning after hearing Donald’s Trump’s comments on the Sutherland Springs shooting in Texas. He says, Trump is trying to separate the gun from the shooting and didn’t say a thing about the NRA. Like BlackAmericaWeb.com on Facebook. Follow us on Twitter and Instagram Sign Up For Our Newsletter!
Longtime soap opera star Kristoff St. John of The Young and The Restless star was hospitalized and placed under psychiatric evaluation after allegedly threatening to kill himself with a gun. Law enforcement sources say a woman, first identified as his ex-wife, Mia, called police Thursday evening and told them St. John had been sending her […]
Black millennials are shattering the old taboos in the Black community about mental health.
Black women go through so much and often never give any thought to their mental health. Psychologist Dr. Joy Harden Bradford wants to change that with her website Therapy For Black Girls. “I think there’s still a lot of stigmas related to mental health. It feels really weird to go to strangers and tell them your close […]
