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Hear:
Violinist
Jordan Busa who brought music to residents’ front yards amid the pandemic last year and will bring it to your home this February.
Hi-lo arts & culture multimedia journalist
Cheantay Jensen discussing the complications and nuances of reflecting the truth with complex subjects.
Community Editorial Board member and professor
Ebony Utley sharing how lovers in a strange land resist the inevitable passing of time. A spooky account of falling in love with ghosts by
Debra Ehrhardt.
Community activist and educator
we need everybody from around the world to take part in it. this is what you see right now. this is the only way that we re going to be able to make a positive change because if we just stick to chicago, i feel as though it will never get done. it s not chicago itself. it s like the borderline of states that are bringing the guns in chicago. i feel as though if we all work together we can create change. arne duncan, are you more hopeful now than ever? i ve been pessimistic on this issue. i think it s a country who cares more about guns than kids but i think it s starting to change. they said our shared pain makes us family. it s a deep statement. i hate that this pain has brought them together but i m convinced with them coming together they re going to change the world. former education secretary arne duncan. ariana williams, thank you so much. thanks for having us. here in the nation s capitol you can hear the noise level is increasing. people are gathering here in huge num
from the fact that you had kids from chicago who met with kids in parkland, parkland kids came to chicago to talk to some of your kids. i think they see how much they have in common. they see the common fight to keep kids safe. ariana talked about what it s like to talk to them. ariana, your family has been struck by gun violence. you lost your father, two uncles. this really hits close to home. what was that dialogue like between you and parkland students? it was really comfortable to say the least. when we went there, we were so the students from chicago were so amazed at how their environment was because they do live in a gated community and we ve never seen anything like that. it was a whole new experience. when we walked in, emma and her family and other students, the youth leaders from march for our lives, they were so amazingly able to just greet us like we were family, like they knew us. that really made us be able to sit there and talk about our
also with him joining me is ariana williams, a high school student from chicago. both of you here energized by this incredible movement. at the same time, you have been committed to reducing gun violence in the streets of chicago and in schools there for a very long time after your post as education secretary. what are your impressions here? this is a moving, emotional day. unfortunately, our kids in chicago, particularly on the south and west sides, have been living in a level of violence for years that s unacceptable. to see the country finally waking up and saying we have to do something better, our young leaders like ariana who are going to lead the country where we need to go. it s emotional, moving. there s a lot of pain, a lot of hurt but i m more hopeful on this issue now than i ve been in a long time. it s not because of what we re doing as adults but because of what our young leaders are doing. is a lot of that hope coming
on a killing rampage. tonight from los angeles, we bring you the story of one man who waged a deadly war of retribution and take you inside one of the largest manhunts in los angeles police history. for almost a decade, irvine, california, has been known as the safest city in america. but in early february, this l.a. suburb was the scene of after terrible double murder. a crime at the time that offered no hint of the terror to come. call came out at 9:10 this evening at 2100 scholarship at a parking structure. february 3rd, 9:10 p.m. when irvine police responded to a tip and found keith lawrence and his fiancee monica kwan. both had been shot dead in lawrence s parked car. each had been shot multiple times. we are trying to figure out what happened. initially police had no motive and no leads. they get it in to lawrence. lawrence was a well liked former college basketball player who had just begun a law enforcement career as a university of southern california saf