Remembering Sakia Gunn

The Brian Lehrer Show | Jun 26, 2023

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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