More To The Story: When Trymaine Lee began writing his first book, he didn’t realize that the gun violence he was reporting on was such a central part of his own story. But then he began digging into his family history, only to fully learn about a series of racially motivated murders involving his ancestors. Lee’s book, A Thousand Ways to Die: The True Cost of Violence on Black Life in America , soon became more personal than he’d planned. On this week’s episode of More To The Story , Lee sits down with host Al Letson for part 2 of a conversation about generational trauma, the challenges of being a Black journalist in America, and how learning about his family’s history has changed how he writes and reports on Black Americans killed by violence. Producer: Josh Sanburn | Editor: Kara McGuirk-Allison | Theme music: Fernando Arruda and Jim Briggs | Copy editor: Nikki Frick | Deputy executive producer: Taki Telonidis | Executive producer: Brett Myers | Executive editor: James West | Host: Al Letson Donate today at Revealnews.org/more Subscribe to our weekly newsletter at Revealnews.org/weekly Follow us on Instagram and Bluesky Listen: Mississippi Goddam ( Reveal ) Listen: Being Black in America Almost Killed Me Part 1 ( More To The Story ) Read: Trump Prepares to Wipe Out Years of Progress on Gun Violence ( Mother Jones ) Read: A Thousand Ways to Die: The True Cost of Violence on Black Life in America (St. Martin’s Press) Watch: Hope in High Water: A People’s Recovery Twenty Years After Hurricane Katrina (Peacock) Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
