Remembering Sakia Gunn
The Brian Lehrer Show
WNYC
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 26 June 2023
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
Jenna Flanagan, host of MetroFocus on WNET and WLIW, talks about her new podcast "After Broad and Market" that looks back at the 2003 murder of Sakia Gunn, a queer teenager from Newark, and what has changed in the 20 years since for the community of queer teens of color.
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| 0:00.0 | It's the Brian Lero Show on WNYC. Good morning again everyone. |
| 0:15.5 | Coming up in about 20 minutes, David Remnick, editor of the New Yorker and of course |
| 0:19.4 | host of the New Yorker Radio Hour here on WNYC is going to join us with an update on |
| 0:24.9 | the situation in Russia and Ukraine after the coup attempt if you want to call it that |
| 0:30.2 | this weekend. |
| 0:31.2 | David, as some of you know, is also the author of a couple of books on Putin and Russia. |
| 0:37.3 | He is a close Russia watcher so we're going to get David Remnick's update on developments |
| 0:43.2 | this morning and his bigger picture take as well coming up. |
| 0:47.6 | But right now this year marks 20 years since a queer teenager named Sakia Gunn was murdered |
| 0:55.3 | in Newark at a bus stop on Broad and Market Street. |
| 0:58.6 | Sakia was just 15 years old when she was fatally stabbed by a man because of her sexual orientation. |
| 1:05.7 | Marking her murder is one of the first prosecuted LGBTQ plus hate crimes in New Jersey. |
| 1:11.9 | But outside of the devastation it caused in the community, particularly the queer black |
| 1:16.3 | community, Sakia's story then and now has been rarely told on the national media level. |
| 1:22.4 | Jennifer Flanagan, many of you know as the host of Metro Focus on WNDT and WLIW and she's |
| 1:29.4 | telling Sakia's story and what happened in the months years and decades after Sakia's |
| 1:33.8 | murder in a new podcast called After Broad and Market and she joins us now. |
| 1:40.0 | Jenna always good to talk to you. |
| 1:41.3 | Welcome back to WNYC. |
| 1:42.3 | Oh, absolutely. |
| 1:43.3 | It's great to be on. |
| 1:45.7 | Did you cover this story when it originally happened? |
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