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Examine the U.S. gun violence crisis and the people it impacts with NewsHour correspondent William Brangham. Understand deeply personal stories from shooting victims and their loved ones, community leaders, gun owners and frontline health workers.
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In 2020, Washington, D.C., had the highest number of homicides in 16 years. NPR’s Michel Martin speaks with people who’ve experienced gun violence: Ryane Nickens, Cathy Feingold and Jackie Bensen.
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Two women who lost loved ones to gun violence in Washington, D.C., are working together to help the growing number of people, including children, who’ve also suffered the loss of family members or friends.
Ryane Nickens has lost more than a dozen family members and friends to gun violence in the past 25 years. In 2017, she founded the TraRon Center, named for her sister Tracy and her brother Ronnie, who were murdered in separate incidents in the 1990s.
Starting in Ward 8, in church basements and other donated spaces, Nickens – a lifelong resident of the District R…