Maria Hinojosa’s Take on Uvalde and Guns One Year Later
Brian Lehrer: A Daily Politics Podcast
WNYC Studios
4.4 • 675 Ratings
🗓️ 31 May 2023
⏱️ 20 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | from WNYC studios. I'm Brian Lerer. This is my daily politics podcast. It's Wednesday, May 31st. |
| 0:15.1 | May 24th, a week ago today, is the day Uvaldi, Texas will not forget because it was a year and a week ago today is a day Uvaldi, Texas will not forget because it was a year and a week ago |
| 0:25.0 | today that 19 children and two teachers died after a teenager legally bought two AR-style weapons, |
| 0:32.3 | walked into his old fourth grade classroom at Rob Elementary School, and opened fire, |
| 0:38.8 | as almost all of you know. |
| 0:43.5 | Coping and grieving with the loss of children who should have been able to go home to their parents and families that day and of the teachers who died trying to keep them safe, |
| 0:48.3 | parents, community members, as well as children like 10-year-old Caitlin Gonzalez, |
| 0:53.4 | pushed for change one year later. |
| 0:56.1 | And though confronted with the reality of Texas gun politics, they continue pushing. |
| 1:01.5 | Veteran journalist Maria Inahosa examines politics and the grief one year later in a new |
| 1:07.8 | documentary from Frontline for Tud Media, and the Texas Tribune. |
| 1:12.2 | The documentary is after Yuvalde, Guns, Grief, and Texas Politics. |
| 1:17.9 | And with us now is Maria Inahosa, founder of Futuro Media, and president of Futuro Investigates, |
| 1:24.8 | anchor and executive producer of Latino USA, and author of the book, Once I Was You, |
| 1:30.5 | A Memoir of Love and Hate in a torn America, which he released in 2020. |
| 1:36.5 | Maybe some of you have now seen the documentary called After Yuvaldei Guns Grief and Texas |
| 1:41.9 | Politics. It premiered on Front line last night, and you can also |
| 1:45.7 | hear it on Latino USA on WNYC, 93.9 FM this Friday night at 9 o'clock, or Saturday at 8 p.m. on WNYC. |
| 1:55.7 | AM 820. We'll talk about it now with Maria Inahosa. Hi, Maria. Always great to have you on the show. Sorry, |
| 2:02.9 | it's about something as horrible as this, but of course, welcome back to WNYC. No, thank you, Brian. And, you know, |
| 2:09.6 | to all my fellow New Yorkers, when you read that long list of awards, and I'm like, yeah, yeah, yeah. |
| 2:14.4 | But I'm just a neighbor from Harlem and to you, an old |
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