Hi, it’s Al Letson, host of Reveal and More To The Story.
This week, we’re bringing you part 1 of a two-part conversation with Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Trymaine Lee. At age 38, an otherwise healthy Trymaine turned in the rough draft of his first book about the cost of violence on Black life in America. And that’s when the unthinkable happened. A massive heart attack almost took his life.
Trymaine spent years reporting on gun violence that too often destroys Black lives. He witnessed and wrote about the personal and economic destruction to Black families while bearing the burden of generational trauma. Trymaine’s own family suffered lynchings and senseless murders by gun violence. His near-death experience forced him to reckon with that history, culminating in his book, A Thousand Ways to Die: The True Cost of Violence on Black Life in America.
Trymaine and I had a lot to talk about, which is why we’re breaking it up into two episodes. This week’s More To The Story is a personal conversation about what it means to be a Black man and journalist in America. I hope you check it out.
—Al Letson
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