Mostly Sunny Again On WednesdayCBS 2 Meteorologist Mary Kay Kleist has your 10 p.m. RealTime Weather forecast for Tuesday, Aug. 11, 2020. She said this event felt like the perfect opportunity to connect with the Justice Talks series because of Menasseh’s prominent social justice advocacy.“Oftentimes when we think of Jewish we think of white and when we think of black we think of Christian,” Greenberg said.

She said Grant and Stoudemire had finished up for the day and had begun walking to a store to get food for themselves and their children when they were shot.Manasseh called the women's deaths "terrifying" and "heartbreaking. "The murder of a woman brought us to our corner on 75th & Stewart so there's no way we're going to let the murder of more moms drive us away," the fundraising page says. And during the weekend in which the two women died, 48 people were shot in the city, nine of them fatally, A 23-year-old woman was shot in the leg, back and face on June 25 by someone in a black vehicle in the same block where Grant and Stoudemire were gunned down, according to the Chicago Sun-Times.The woman survived, and police said there is no indication that shooting was connected to the one that killed the two mothers.Grant and Stoudemire were found lying on the sidewalk after a spray of bullets came from inside a blue SUV, police said.Manasseh said the women had been on the corner for hours Friday handing out food to other mothers and keeping watch over a vacant lot the group has turned into a play area for neighborhood children.

"The drive-by shooting followed what has become a familiar pattern in Chicago, where more people are fatally shot than in any other city in the U.S. Two women involved with a group called Mothers Against Senseless Killings were shot dead Friday on a South Side Chicago block where moms gather to help curb gun violence.

Tamar Manasseh, founder of Mothers Against Senseless Killings, on the corner of 75th and Stewart in Chicago’s Englewood neighborhood in summer 2016. Charvonda Andrews is consoled as she mourns two women killed July 26 on the block where a group called Mothers Against Senseless Killings gathers to …

The group began with moms "occupying" the corner, "That's why we're out here seven days a week ... trying to create a safe place where people can learn to be neighbors and not kill each other," said the group's founder, Tamar Manasseh.The gunfire on Friday night was meant for a man who is affiliated with a Chicago street gang and recently got out of prison, police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said.

The mother of two works to prevent gun violence and rebuild her community.Sign up to receive our email newsletter in your inbox three days per week.Northwestern University and Evanston's Only Daily News Source Since 1881Against Senseless Killings and a rabbinical student, discussed her efforts to rebuild her community in EnglewoodManasseh spoke at an event in University Christian Ministry sponsored by Northwestern Hillel, the NU Leadership Development and Community Engagement Office and the Brady Campaign NU.

She said attending a screening of the documentary gave her hope that it would mobilize audience members to engage in conversations and join the movement to rebuild communities in Chicago affected by gun violence.Lydia Greenberg, Hillel’s social justice coordinator, said she was inspired to bring Manasseh to campus because she exemplifies the Jewish value of Tikkun Olam,or repairing the world. View Full Caption Chipman Architecture and Designs of Des Plaines The hope would be, she said, to have these conversations spur people to get more involved in community engagement work. "We deserve to live without fear and the young women, Chantel Grant and Andrea Stoudemire who were torn from their children families tonight, deserve justice."

Chantel Grant, 26, and Andrea Stoudemire, 36, were shot dead in the Auburn Gresham neighborhood while volunteering with Mothers/Men Against Senseless Killings … Mothers Against Senseless Killings' founder wants to build a pocket community center in Englewood. “There’s something powerful about having somebody who is black and Jewish talk about how those identities inform each other in this work.”assistant director of leadership development and community engagement, said she is interested in bringing activists, organizers and community leaders to campus to make it more accessible for students to learn about how people are doing “inspiring” work in Chicago. "Who's next? I just keep thinking, 'Who's next?' Postal Service warns mail-in ballots might not be counted in timeCOVID-19 symptoms often appear in this order, study findsFlorida high school sports approved to return this fallACLU sues over U.S. border policy of expelling migrant childrenDoctor has counted more health care worker deaths than CDCR. Buchanan said Manasseh is an example of someone living out her passions and finding a way to practically and tangibly apply her faith to make a difference on her block.

Tamar Manasseh, founder of Mothers Against Senseless Killings and a rabbinical student, discussed her efforts to rebuild her community in Englewood through violence prevention Monday.