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Jan 21, 2025 | 
thetrace.org | Josiah Bates |Selin Thomas
The Trace Four-year-old LeGend Taliferro was asleep in the early hours of June 29, 2020, when a bullet tore through his room. It was meant for his mother, Charron Powell, and had been fired by a man who had been accused of assaulting her just days earlier. The shooter, Ryson Ellis, shared a child with Powell. After firing his weapon outside of their Kansas City, Missouri, apartment, a bullet passed through a sliding glass door and wall before striking LeGend, killing him.
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Jan 15, 2025 | 
thetrace.org | Will Van Sant |Selin Thomas |Chip Brownlee
The Trace This story was published in partnership with Mother Jones, and appeared in their January/February print issue. An earlier version first published online in July. For decades, McLean Bible Church has served as the place of worship for many of Washington, D.C.’s Republican elite. The sprawling evangelical megachurch in Vienna, Virginia, boasts a roster of former parishioners that includes everyone from Ken Starr to Mike Pence. Donald Trump once dropped in after a round of golf.
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Dec 27, 2024 | 
chronicle-tribune.com | Selin Thomas
The Trace examines a fraternal group that says it's on a mission to help children—but dozens of its local chapters host of gun raffles. Originally published on thetrace.org, part of the BLOX Digital Content Exchange.
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Dec 27, 2024 | 
lakegenevanews.net | Selin Thomas
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Dec 16, 2024 | 
thetrace.org | Fairriona Magee |Selin Thomas |Mike Spies
The Trace Adrienne Rodriguez held her head high as she walked to the front of the courtroom. On her right, her friends and relatives filled the three wooden pews in the back of the room. To her left, the rows on the defendant’s side sat empty. Rodriguez was at the DeKalb County Courthouse in Georgia on that muggy Wednesday morning in August to give a victim impact statement. The room was quiet as she took the stand.
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Nov 20, 2024 | 
thetrace.org | Vincent Alban |Selin Thomas
The Trace Vincent Alban has been photographing the Curry family since 2022. His body of work documents grief in the wake of gun violence over time, not only in the immediate aftermath. On a crisp fall day in 2022, Titiana Bogar-Curry stood in front of her home in Rochester, New York, among her son’s friends. They were gathered to memorialize Ly’Saun Curry, her 18-year-old son, on the second anniversary of his death. Ly’Saun was shot and killed on October 2, 2020.
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Nov 17, 2024 | 
thetrace.org | Ted Alcorn |Selin Thomas
The Trace The block in East Baltimore where Ashley Long was shot and killed in 2017 is desolate, even by the standards of the surrounding neighborhood. On a Saturday afternoon last spring, a cop in a parked police cruiser surveilled vacant brick row houses and an empty lot where abandoned buildings were demolished a few years back.
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Nov 14, 2024 | 
thetrace.org | Josiah Bates |Selin Thomas |Jennifer Mascia |Chip Brownlee
The Trace Terrill Rickmon’s early life might sound like a stereotypical tale: a young Black man from an impoverished neighborhood who struggled with an absent father and went down the wrong path. “I was alone, I felt unloved,” Rickmon said. He’d searched for and found affection on the blocks and corners of his Peoria, Illinois, neighborhood. “That’s what thrust me into the streets.” Peoria’s sprawling South Side, where Rickmon grew up, has been neglected by the city for decades.
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Nov 6, 2024 | 
thetrace.org | Selin Thomas |Chip Brownlee
The Trace A U.S. Army combat tank, topped with a 37mm gun, squats permanently on the front lawn of American Legion Post 179, in Grandville, Michigan, a few miles southwest of Grand Rapids. Inside the corrugated tin building, plastic chairs teeter in the entrance under a copy of an Iwo Jima poster and an American flag. Faded photos of veterans crowd the walls. Under fluorescent bulbs in the main room, men in sequined fezzes welcomed people to the raffle.
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Oct 30, 2024 | 
thetrace.org | Brandon Tensley |Will Van Sant |Selin Thomas
The Trace It was the sort of stomach-churning conspiracy you’d expect to find in a dystopian neo-Nazi novel. A white Arizona man was indicted in June on firearms charges for allegedly plotting to shoot people in Atlanta in an effort to incite a race war before the 2024 presidential election.
