Healing in Uvalde

In The Thick

Futuro Media

News, Politics

4.9 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 24 May 2023

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Maria and Julio reflect on the one-year anniversary of the school massacre in Uvalde, Texas and the lasting impacts on the community. We go deeper in our roundtable to look at how families of victims– especially mothers, both past and present, bring about change. Maria leads the discussion with Keith Beauchamp, award-winning filmmaker and producer on the film “Till,” and Monica Muñoz Martinez, historian and associate professor at the University of Texas at Austin.

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A new FRONTLINE documentary with Futuro Investigates and The Texas Tribune seeks to answer the lingering questions after the tragedy. You can watch the trailer here.
“Parents have been fighting for a full accounting, but a promised city investigation hasn’t happened and a lot of information is bottled up in the district attorney's own investigation,” writes Suzanne Gamboa about the families fighting for justice in Uvalde one year later, in this piece for NBC News.
Following the Uvalde school massacre last year, Loyola Professor Elliott Gorn wrote “Publishing grim photographs of mass killings might do some good in reforming America’s insane gun regime. But it won’t be because gun rights fundamentalists see the light,” for The Chicago Sun-Times.

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0:00.0	From Futuro Media and PRX, it's In The Thick, a podcast about politics, race and culture.
0:17.0	I'm Marien Nojosa, and I'm Julio Ricardo Varela.
0:20.9	And today marks the one-year anniversary of the massacre in Uval de Texas.
0:27.9	Rob Elementary in Uval de, where just under 600 second through fourth graders were in school,
0:33.2	is about an hour and a half just outside of San Antonio.
0:37.0	It's a smaller community there of a little more than 24,000 people.
0:40.6	A shooting at Rob Elementary School in Uval de officially left 19 children and two adults dead.
0:48.4	And so a year later, Julio, you know, we're still processing.
0:52.9	I know, yes, there have been many mass shootings and school shootings since then.
1:00.0	Julio, that's a lot, right?
1:02.3	It's a lot to deal with.
1:03.6	So let me ask you first, how you doing?
1:06.6	Like, what's your temperature check on this one-year anniversary of the massacre in Uval de?
1:12.5	I meant this point as a journalist, as a commentator or as someone who writes opinions on the side, right?
1:20.5	That it's very important to recognize what happened a year ago and not to forget it.
1:33.0	But I also fear that in this day and age, these anniversaries become like media checklist items for news organizations.
1:45.4	And everyone, you know, there's a big like, oh, let's talk about the one-year anniversary and then everything goes away.
1:49.8	And so in hindsight, well, I love the decision that you made with your team to say we're not doing that.
1:57.4	And we're here forever.
1:59.6	I think about the families a lot today about the kids.
2:02.5	Your thoughts, I know you've gone through a lot about your time check right now on the anniversary.
2:09.2	It's a really tough day.
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