On this edition of Your Call, we speak with community members and those who lost loved ones in last year's mass shooting in East Buffalo.
On May 14, 2022, a young self-described white supremacist drove more than three hours to a predominantly Black community and used an AR-15 style rifle to murder 10 people and injure three at a Tops supermarket. Many survivors say racism is still alive in Buffalo.
How did the tragic shooting change the community?
Guests:
Mark Talley, lost his mother, 62-year old Geraldine Talley, in the shooting, founder of Agents for Advocacy, and author of 5/14: The Day the Devil Came to Buffalo
Na’kya McCann, college student, reporter and host of Embedded: Buffalo Extreme, and junior coach at the Buffalo All-Star Extreme gym
Alex Wright, founder and CEO of the African Heritage Food Co-Op
Web Resources:
ABC: Survivors say Buffalo's history of segregation and racial tensions linked to Tops shooting
NPR: NPR's Embedded: Buffalo Extreme follows Black cheer team in aftermath of mass shooting
Wired: Buffalo Mass Shooting Victims' Families Sue Meta, Reddit, Amazon
NBC: Black leaders on Buffalo’s East Side are building markets to address food insecurity
WGRZ: Selfless Among Us: Mark Talley, Founder of Agents for Advocacy
Huffpost: The Buffalo Massacre Happened A Year Ago — And Racism Is Still Very Much Alive In The City
