Since 1998, activist Willie Hudspeth has been fighting for the removal of his county’s Confederate monument in Denton, Texas. For years, he’s protested at the town square alone—but in the wake of the violence in Charlottesville, he’s finally started gaining local support. VICE met up with Willie to find out why he’s so passionate about […]

It’s no secret that Chicago has become the center of America’s gun violence epidemic over the last few years. In 2017 alone, the city had 3,457 shooting victims- — 246 of which were children. To make matters worse, Chicago’s South Side — where many of these shootings take place- doesn’t even have a trauma center […]