Grieving Loss From Gun Violence
Notes from America with Kai Wright
WNYC Studios
4.4 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 6 April 2023
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
A recent mass shooting at a school in Nashville added to the toll of death and injuries from the nation’s gun violence crisis. A reporter wonders if we’re grieving properly – or at all.
Two mothers lost their daughters to gun violence but received disparate levels of attention. Now, they’re using their stories – and their grief – to inspire others. WNYC correspondent Tracie Hunte introduces host Kai Wright to Nelba Márquez-Greene and Celeste Fulcher, whose stories of loss teach us about the exacting toll of gun violence, and the power grief yields to stir change and progress.
This episode was originally published as ‘How Are We Grieving?’ on July 28, 2022. Listen to more episodes here.
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| 0:00.0 | It's notes from America, I'm Kai Wright. |
| 0:06.9 | Last week in Nashville, three adults and three children, all nine years old, were killed |
| 0:12.0 | in yet another mass shooting. |
| 0:14.7 | This latest horror took me back to a conversation that my WNYC colleague Tracey Hunt brought |
| 0:21.3 | us last summer in the wake of yet another mass shooting. |
| 0:26.4 | She had been thinking about the sheer volume of grief we've all experienced, from the pandemic |
| 0:33.4 | to police killings of black people to these just countless mass shootings. |
| 0:39.4 | She wondered if we're grieving properly, if at all, during this onslaught of death. |
| 0:45.8 | So Tracey turned to two mothers who know a lot about grieving. |
| 0:50.4 | Nalba, Marquez, Green and Celeste, Fulture. |
| 0:54.5 | Nalba's daughter, Anna Grace, was killed by a mass shooter at Sandy Hook Elementary |
| 0:59.6 | School in Newtown, Connecticut. |
| 1:02.4 | And a year later, Celeste's daughter, Erica Robinson, was killed in a shooting at a |
| 1:07.2 | nightclub in New Haven. |
| 1:10.0 | They talked to Tracey about grieving publicly and privately. |
| 1:14.9 | Here's Tracey as she meets Nalba. |
| 1:17.7 | So I hopped on the computer with her and it immediately felt intimate. |
| 1:22.6 | She was in her home office. |
| 1:24.5 | I was in my bedroom. |
| 1:26.6 | Her dark curly hair was on top of her head like in a bun and she was wearing this pink |
| 1:31.6 | t-shirt with the word Latina in cursive written across it. |
| 1:36.3 | And as we said hello, we were both preparing to talk about something really personal. |
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