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Bonus Episode: A Libation for Sakia

August 28, 2023

As a thank-you for everyone who tuned in to our miniseries, we are sharing Professor Kim Pearson's reading of her poem "A Libation for Sakia."

Episode 5 – Breaking the Cycle

August 28, 2023

Some 20 years after the murder of Sakia Gunn, another anti-LGBTQ+ hate crime killing makes national headlines. As yet another grieving community fights to raise awareness for social justice, we ask: What do we as a nation owe to Sakia Gunn, O'Shae Sibley, and the scores of Black queer…

Episode 3 – Reporting on Newark as a Black Woman

July 24, 2023

Though they came from different worlds, the lives of Sakia Gunn and of lead reporter Jenna Flanagan intersected in meaningful ways.  By exploring the history of Newark and contextualizing her own Blackness, Jenna gains a deeper understanding of who Sakia was 20…

Episode 1 – Sakia

June 26, 2023

At a bus stop in downtown Newark in 2003, a queer teenager’s life was lost in a homicide that should have rocked the nation. Why did that not happen?

Trailer: After Broad and Market

June 9, 2023

In 2003, WNET journalist Jenna Flanagan reported on the murder of 15-year-old Newark native Sakia Gunn. Now, 20 years on, Flanagan revisits the story to examine what progress might have been made in protecting Newark’s queer youth — and how…