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In May 2003, 15-year-old student Sakia Gunn was murdered in her hometown of Newark, New Jersey. She was young, Black, and queer. And her unjustifiable death ignited an urgency for LGBTQ+ activism in her hometown, but earned little attention nationally.
IntroducingAfter Broad and Market, a 5-part investigative series that explores how one person’s life can affect a whole community, reported by The WNET Group’s award-winning journalist Jenna Flanagan.
On the 20th anniversary of Sakia’s case, Flanagan reports on the fallout from Sakia’s death as unsettling and sobering, but a clear reminder of how intersectionality can affect how strangers see and value a person, both in and outside of their community. She examines how her misplaced expectations for a national outcry were rooted in the straightness and white supremacy that characterized her middle-class upbringing. Flanagan also explores the ways her Black community continues to struggle with homophobia and respectability politics.
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After Broad and Market unapologetically asks why it’s so easy for us, as a country, to dismiss and forget a girl like Sakia Gunn. Why her social class, her race, and her gender identity rendered her invisible despite having her life cut short in such a violent hate crime. Flanagan looks closely at the systems and institutions – from their school to city hall to the state – that failed Sakia and her friends. And traces the efforts to empower and strengthen the identity of queer kids in Newark after her death.
After Broad and Market debuts on June 26, 2023. New episodes will be released bi-weekly on Mondays on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. It was co-produced by The WNET Group and LWC Studios. After Broad and Market was created in partnership with Chasing the Dream, a public media initiative from The WNET Group, reporting on poverty, justice, and economic opportunity in America.
You can learn more at pbs.org/chasingthedream. Major funding for Chasing the Dream is provided by The JPB Foundation with additional funding from Sue and Edgar Wachenheim, III.
Jenna Flanagan is a writer, reporter, journalist, producer, and current on-screen host for The WNET Group’s MetroFocus. Jenna grew up in New Paltz where her interest in journalism began after attending a journalism camp at SUNY New Paltz at age 12. She went on to study communications and journalism at Seton Hall University in South Orange, NJ where she was on the staff of the college newspaper, The Setonian.
After graduating with a B.A. in communications in 1999, she took her first job in the business as a news production assistant and Engineer for 1010 WINS. She spent over six years as a reporter, writer and producer for WNYC’s All Things Considered, with her work airing nationally on NPR. In 2012, Jenna left her full-time radio production job for a chance to produce and report on-camera for the PBS member station in Albany, where her reports aired statewide on New York NOW. The WNET Group took notice of Jenna’s work. In 2015 she was brought on as a correspondent for the newsmagazine MetroFocus, eventually joining the show as a journalist and host.
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This Post Is Sponsored By After Broad and Market Podcast
Launching June 26, 2023, discover "After Broad and Market". This 5-part investigative series, led by award-winning journalist Jenna Flanagan, revisits the heart-wrenching story of Sakia Gunn, a young, Black, queer student who was tragically murdered in 2003. Discover the impact of her life and the echoes of her untimely death on the LGBTQ+ community in Newark, New Jersey. » Learn More Here! «
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