As we prepare to showcase a week of special episodes centered around the parallels between the racially-motivated shooting at Brother Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina and the Tops shooting last year in Buffalo, we hold a roundtable discussion with the WBFO members that embarked on this project. Tom Berich, Charles Gilbert, Holly Kirkpatrick, and Thomas O’Neil-White sit down to have an open discussion about the lessons they learned by engaging with the people of Charleston nearly 8 years after their tragic event.
Angelea Preston speaks with some of the loved ones that knew Pearl Young best. Damon Young, Pearl’s son, and fellow parishioner, Sister Madge Whiskey, talk about Pearl, one of the lives taken in the May 14 Tops Shooting, and contagious energy that she radiated. Her son and good friend have taken up her cause of championing goodwill in their community and are establishing a food pantry and soup kitchen in her name. Afterward, Lorenzo Rodriguez speaks with army veteran, John Sanabria, to honor the memory of the US military’s only all-Puerto-Rican infantry, the Borinqueneers.
Despite numerous promises to invest in East Buffalo following the deadly Tops shooting, there are no visible signs of progress. There's still only one grocery store and numerous vacant properties.
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During the City Hall Christmas Tree lighting Tuesday evening, Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown dedicated the annual tradition to the 10 lives lost during the May 14 Tops mass shooting.