Hey, I'm Kelly McEvers and this is Embedded from NPR.

And one thing before we start our episode, I just want to say many people we talk to

for this series asked that we only use their first names.

The memories they're sharing are raw and sensitive and we're going to honor their requests.

So last time on Buffalo Extreme, we got to know the kids, the coaches and the parents

who are part of a dance and cheer gym in Buffalo, the Buffalo All-Star Extreme, otherwise

known as Base.

Their gym is only a few blocks away from where in May, 2022, a white man murdered 10 black

people at the top grocery store.

And he killed them because they were black.

After the massacre Coach Yani, who runs Base, didn't want to stay at the gym, neither

to the kids.

But it's not easy to just start a whole new gym.

It took them nearly a half a year to reopen in a new spot.

And that's where we're going to start today.

Just like last time, your host is Junior Coach Nakaya McCann.

She grew up doing competitive cheerleading at Base.

This is her community.

Here's Nakaya.

At the end of October, finally, we got hit with some good news.

The grand opening of the new gym.

And I think we're coming up on it at 600 feet, 300 feet base.

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