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	<pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2026 19:25:20 -0400</pubDate>
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		<title>TENGA Doc series-One Nation Under Fire</title>
		<description><![CDATA[America&#8217;s gun violence epidemic continues to hurt and traumatize young lives. While the gun lobby and gun control groups continue to battle over legislation in our nation&#8217;s capital.]]></description>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Sep 2023 11:05:00 -0400</pubDate>
		<link>https://traroncenter.org/media/tenga-doc-series-one-nation-under-fire/</link>

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		<title>Ricochet: An American Trauma - A PBS NewsHour Special Report</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Examine the U.S. gun violence crisis and the people it impacts with NewsHour correspondent William Brangham. Understand deeply personal stories from shooting victims and their loved ones, community leaders, gun owners and frontline health workers.]]></description>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Nov 2022 10:52:00 -0500</pubDate>
		<link>https://traroncenter.org/media/ricochet-an-american-trauma-a-pbs-newshour-special-report/</link>

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		<title>News 4 Your Sunday: Gun Violence</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Jan 2022 16:02:00 -0500</pubDate>
		<link>https://traroncenter.org/media/news-4-your-sunday-gun-violence/</link>

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		<title>NBC4 Washington: TraRon Center Offers Art Therapy to Kids Affected by Gun Violence</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Nov 2021 13:55:00 -0500</pubDate>
		<link>https://traroncenter.org/media/traron-center-offers-art-therapy-to-kids-affected-by-gun-violence/</link>

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		<title>NPR: 3 people share their experiences with gun-violence in D.C.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In 2020, Washington, D.C., had the highest number of homicides in 16 years. NPR&#8217;s Michel Martin speaks with people who&#8217;ve experienced gun violence: Ryane Nickens, Cathy Feingold and Jackie Bensen.]]></description>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Nov 2021 13:54:00 -0500</pubDate>
		<link>https://traroncenter.org/media/3-people-share-their-experiences-with-gun-violence-in-d.c/</link>

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		<title>NBC4 Washington: Women Who Lost Loved Ones to DC Gun Violence Team Up to Help Others</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Two women who lost loved ones to gun violence in Washington, D.C., are working together to help the growing number of people, including children, who&rsquo;ve also suffered the loss of family members or friends.

Ryane Nickens has lost more than a dozen family members and friends to gun violence in the past 25 years. In 2017, she founded the TraRon Center, named for her sister Tracy and her brother Ronnie, who were murdered in separate incidents in the 1990s.

Starting in Ward 8, in church basements and other donated spaces, Nickens &#8211; a lifelong resident of the District &amp;#82&hellip;]]></description>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Nov 2021 13:36:00 -0500</pubDate>
		<link>https://traroncenter.org/media/women-who-lost-loved-ones-to-dc-gun-violence-team-up-to-help-others/</link>

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		<title>ABC 7 News Article</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Exactly one month ago, a father and husband from Takoma Park was shot and killed in the District, hit by a stray bullet shortly after he and his wife left a restaurant on 14th Street Northwest near Logan Circle. D.C. Police are still searching for the person or persons responsible for the death of 53-year-old Jeremy Black.

Meanwhile, his grieving family has partnered with a D.C. nonprofit that works to help communities that are hardest hit by gun violence.]]></description>
		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Aug 2021 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
		<link>https://traroncenter.org/media/aliquam-id-erat-sit-amet-justo-egestas-luctus-vel-in-nibh/</link>

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		<title>People Magazine Article: After Losing 3 Family Members to Gunfire, Activist Ryane Nickens Helps Survivors Overcome Trauma</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;My life is an example of how you can turn pain into purpose,&#8221; says Ryane Nickens, the founder of Washington, D.C.&#8217;s TraRon Center.

Ryane Nickens was 12 when she lost her first relative to gun violence. The victim in that 1989 shooting was her 20-year-old uncle, David Williams. Then, in 1993, a shooting in Nickens&#8217; Southeast Washington, D.C., neighborhood killed her pregnant sister Tracy, 18, and injured her mother, Linda Bunn, as well as Ryane&#8217;s sister Dee Dee and her brother Ronnie.]]></description>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Aug 2021 09:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
		<link>https://traroncenter.org/media/people-magazine-article-ryane/</link>

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		<title>The Washington Post - Peace Corps Worker</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Cathy Feingold doesn&rsquo;t know who the women were or what lives they had led.

All she knows is that they appeared during one of her darkest moments and knew exactly what to do as her husband lay on a busy Northwest D.C. sidewalk, dying from a gunshot wound.

That night in June, as Feingold tells it, she and her husband, Jeremy Black, a Peace Corps worker who had dedicated his life to helping others, had been on a date. They had enjoyed dinner with two friends at a 14th Street restaurant and, because the weather was welcoming, decided to take a walk. The four made it only a few&hellip;]]></description>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Jul 2021 12:43:00 -0400</pubDate>
		<link>https://traroncenter.org/media/the-washington-post-peace-corps-worker/</link>

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		<title>Remembering Jeremy Black</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Jeff and Barbara Black remember their son Jeremy as a bold and courageous man who devoted his life to empowering others, raised a loving family and embedded himself in communities around the world.

Jeremy was killed by a stray bullet in Washington D.C. on June 29 while he, his wife and their friends were walking home from a restaurant. He was caught in the crossfire of a shootout between two groups of people. He was 53 years old and had a wife, Cathy Feingold, and two children.]]></description>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jul 2021 13:58:00 -0400</pubDate>
		<link>https://traroncenter.org/media/remembering-jeremy-black/</link>

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		<title>POLITICO Article: D.C.’s Silent Gun Slaughter</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In one of the most troubled neighborhoods in the nation&rsquo;s capital, a new center is trying to stop the bloodshed.]]></description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jun 2021 15:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
		<link>https://traroncenter.org/media/d.c.s-silent-gun-slaughter/</link>

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		<title>Special Highlight 2021 - Christian Women Shaping the Church</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For the past five years, Sojourners has celebrated Women&rsquo;s History Month with a roundup of women faith leaders who are bringing us hope and inspiring us to action. This year&rsquo;s group includes pastors and seed-keepers, authors and theologians, activists and organizers. Collectively, they envision and work toward a wide and bold church community &mdash; a community that cares for creation and for those who are suffering, that centers those who the church has historically marginalized, and that holds both political and faith leaders accountable. Pray alongside these leaders and learn their visi&hellip;]]></description>
		<pubDate>Sat, 15 May 2021 07:34:00 -0400</pubDate>
		<link>https://traroncenter.org/media/special-highlight-2021/</link>

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		<title>Community Organizers Respond To A Spike In D.C.’s Gun Violence</title>
		<description><![CDATA[2020 was a record year for gun homicides in the U.S. Over&nbsp;19,000 people died from homicides nationwide, a 25 percent increase from the previous year.&nbsp;The District, in particular, has seen an uptick in gun violence, as&nbsp;homicides hit a 15-year peak in 2020.&nbsp;Mayor Bowser declared a state of emergency over the current spike in v&hellip;]]></description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2021 13:02:00 -0500</pubDate>
		<link>https://traroncenter.org/media/community-organizers-respond-to-a-spike-in-d.c.s-gun-violence/</link>

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		<title>DC&apos;s gun violence takes toll on locals&apos; mental health</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Data from the District&#8217;s government and police shows almost 200 people have died from gun violence in the Nation&rsquo;s Capital in 2020. The last time D.C. experienced a higher murder rate was 16 years ago, according to the Metropolitan Police Department. The District&#8217;s violence in 2020 was capped off by a homicide that shook every corner of D.C.]]></description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Dec 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
		<link>https://traroncenter.org/media/dcs-gun-violence-takes-toll-on-locals-mental-health/</link>

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		<title>Special Highlight 2020 Washington Post Article</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A public housing learning pod with in-person therapy supports D.C. students during pandemic.]]></description>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Dec 2020 12:50:00 -0500</pubDate>
		<link>https://traroncenter.org/media/special-highlight-2020-washington-post-article/</link>

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		<title>2020 Virtual Schooling</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One week into the academic year, the District&rsquo;s school system is still struggling to meet its projected enrollment numbers and to deliver technology to some of its hardest-to-reach students. But teachers and parents also say that each day, remote learning in the nation&rsquo;s capital is improving. Technology troubles are becoming less frequent, more students are showing up to virtual classes, and everyone is becoming more adept at using unfamiliar computer platforms.]]></description>
		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Sep 2020 12:55:00 -0400</pubDate>
		<link>https://traroncenter.org/media/2020-virtual-schooling/</link>

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		<title>DC Students Struggle to Get Online</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When D.C. public schools closed on March&nbsp;13, Na&rsquo;Asia Hawkins was eight courses and five months short of walking across the graduation stage this summer. But now her courses were quickly shifting online, where Hawkins had little hope of keeping up. She had no computer, no WiFi and no idea how she would watch her 2-year-old son&nbsp;and&nbsp;do school work using her iPhone&rsquo;s limited data plan.]]></description>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2020 14:23:00 -0400</pubDate>
		<link>https://traroncenter.org/media/dc-students-struggle-to-get-online/</link>

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		<title>&apos;Put down your guns!&apos;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON &#8211; Advocates say children tend to be the &#8220;forgotten voices&#8221; in the continuous conversation about gun violence in D.C. And yet, this trauma follows them throughout their lives.

On Saturday, an 18-year-old was shot and killed in Southeast D.C. and a kid was shot and injured in Northeast.]]></description>
		<pubDate>Sun, 05 May 2019 13:20:00 -0400</pubDate>
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