Texas After Uvalde

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🗓️ 16 June 2023

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

In the year following the shooting at Robb Elementary School that killed 19 children and two adults, how has the community in Uvalde, Texas grieved — and what do they want to see happen?

In the recent documentary After Uvalde: Guns, Grief, and Texas Politics, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Maria Hinojosa examined the Uvalde community’s efforts to heal, its history of activism, and where the fight over assault rifles stands today.

Hinojosa, host of Latino USA and founder of Futuro Media, joins Raney Aronson-Rath to talk about her reporting in Uvalde and at the Texas Capitol as the aftermath of the tragedy — including the efforts of some Robb Elementary families to advocate for new gun restrictions — rippled through Texas politics.

“It's just like you are witnessing the greatest divisions in our country right here. This is what it looks like,” Hinojosa told Aronson-Rath.

You can watch After Uvalde: Guns, Grief, and Texas Politics, a collaboration with Futuro Investigates and The Texas Tribune, on FRONTLINE’s website, FRONTLINE’s YouTube channel, and the PBS App.

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0:00.0	An unimaginable tragedy in Texas.
0:03.6	Just over one year ago, some families are getting that news they didn't want to receive
0:08.4	this evening.
0:09.4	A young man armed with an AR-15 style rifle, locked into Rob Elementary School in Uvalde,
0:16.0	Texas, and killed 19 children and two adults.
0:19.9	I stood there as families were informed that their children had passed on.
0:25.3	I heard screams that I had never heard in my life.
0:28.6	We're very angry, but we want justice for our kids.
0:32.4	After Uvalde, guns, grief, and Texas politics is a new frontline documentary made in partnership
0:38.0	with Fatturo Investigates and the Texas Tribune.
0:41.8	This video footage shows what the police response was.
0:46.1	Give me the timing.
0:47.5	Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Maria Nihosa, a host of the podcast, Latina USA, is the
0:52.9	film's correspondent and spent time in Uvalde examining the aftermath.
0:57.8	After a horrific tragedy like this, what do you do?
1:01.9	We're not giving up.
1:04.4	I'm Renier Ensen Roth, Editor-in-Chief and Executive Producer of Frontline, and this is
1:09.4	the Frontline Dispatch.
1:15.0	The Frontline Dispatch is made possible by the Abrams Foundation, committed to excellence
1:19.6	in journalism, and by the Frontline Journalism Fund, with major support from John and
1:24.6	Joanne Hagler.
1:26.2	The Frontline Dispatch comes from the Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center, dedicated to providing
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