A Thousand Ways to Die: The True Cost of Violence on Black Life in America

A deeply personal exploration of the generational impact of guns on the Black experience in America. This program is read by the author.

A few years ago, Trymaine Lee, though fit and only 38, nearly died of a heart attack. When his then five-year-old daughter, Nola, asked her daddy why, he realized that to answer her honestly, he had to confront what almost killed him-the weight of being a Black man in America; of bearing witness, as a journalist, to relentless Black death; and of a family h...