Hey there, you're listening to its been a minute from NPR.

I'm Brittany Loose.

A warning, this episode includes discussion of gun violence.

One year ago, a white supremacist drove more than 200 miles from his hometown to a predominantly

black neighborhood in Buffalo, New York.

The next day, armed with an AR-15 style rifle, he pulled up to a grocery store and killed

10 people and injured three more.

It was a horrific moment and people are still grappling with it.

Since the mass shooting, the folks over at NPR's embedded podcast have been keeping up with

the community as they've been navigating their complicated path to recovery.

And today, we're bringing you the first episode in their multi-part series.

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

One year ago, in Buffalo, New York, a white man drove three hours.

From where he lived and went to a supermarket in a mostly black neighborhood, specifically because

it was a black neighborhood.

There he killed 10 people and injured three more people.

And not far from the supermarket is a gym where kids, mostly black girls, learn competitive

cheerleading and dance.

The gym is not where the shooting happened, but that's the thing about mass shootings.

They don't just affect people who were there.

They affect everybody in the community.

So we followed the girls and their mothers and their coaches for a year.

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