Latest Precious lives Podcast Episodes
#101 Precious Lives: A Search for Answers
Precious Lives - December 20, 2016 16:42 - 23 minutes - ★★★★ - 5 ratingsThis is the final episode of Precious Lives. And for this final story, we thought we’d return to the first family we met - the family of Laylah Petersen.
#100 Precious Lives: Breaking the Cycle of Violence
Precious Lives - December 13, 2016 18:54 - 13 minutes - ★★★★ - 5 ratingsOn June 11, 1994, Garland Hampton woke up around 10:30 am. He poured himself a bowl cereal, took a shower and went to a friend’s birthday party. That evening, Garland got into a fight with a fellow gang member. He pointed a 9-millimeter pistol at Donell Storks and shot him in the left side of the...
#099 Precious Lives: A Pediatric Surgeon’s Plea To End Gun Deaths in Milwaukee
Precious Lives - December 06, 2016 17:59 - 17 minutes - ★★★★ - 5 ratingsWell over a decade ago, pediatric surgeon Dr. John Densmore and his wife bought their first home. He had just started his residency at Children’s Hospital in Milwaukee.
#098 Precious Lives: The Next Chapter
Precious Lives - November 29, 2016 20:10 - 10 minutes - ★★★★ - 5 ratingsAt the end of 2016, Precious Lives will shift gears. We’ll wrap up our radio series and focus on a traveling live show. The Precious Lives team will attempt to reach all corners of Milwaukee to harness diverse energies to combat the problem of gun violence.
#097 Precious Lives: An Urban Ministry
Precious Lives - November 22, 2016 17:19 - 10 minutes - ★★★★ - 5 ratingsViolence clusters like an infectious disease. But you can also feel it when you walk into certain community spaces, like All People’s Church in Milwaukee.
#096 Precious Lives: Finding Justice - and Purpose - Amid Police Violence
Precious Lives - November 15, 2016 16:53 - 9 minutes - ★★★★ - 5 ratingsAfter Sylville Smith was shot and killed by a police officer this summer, his family was left to grieve and figure out how to move forward.
#095 Precious Lives: Checking In With Carlton Dewindt, More Than A Year After Losing His Friend
Precious Lives - November 08, 2016 17:37 - 9 minutes - ★★★★ - 5 ratingsWe met 22-year-old Carlton Dewindt over a year ago, when he was featured on an early episode of Precious Lives.
#094 Precious Lives: How Did We Get Here?
Precious Lives - November 01, 2016 15:44 - 8 minutes - ★★★★ - 5 ratingsThere’s a lot we know about gun violence. We know it’s concentrated in poorer areas. And we know those areas tend to be heavily black. But how did things get that way -- how did we get to the point where 84% of Milwaukee’s homicide victims are black?
#093 Precious Lives: Behind the Gun Violence Beat
Precious Lives - October 25, 2016 15:00 - 15 minutes - ★★★★ - 5 ratingsThis is Precious Lives episode 93. We’re almost at our goal of telling 100 stories about gun violence and young people in Milwaukee. We’ve covered the family members who have lost loved ones, the activists fighting to make the city better, and the political leaders overseeing it all. Each week, w...
#092 Precious Lives: Running Towards a Second Chance
Precious Lives - October 18, 2016 14:58 - 9 minutes - ★★★★ - 5 ratingsBorn a few months apart, Mario Drain and his friends wound up with very different fates after committing armed robbery together in high school.
#091 Precious Lives: Building Community After a Police-Involved Shooting
Precious Lives - October 11, 2016 14:27 - 8 minutes - ★★★★ - 5 ratingsIn August 2016, 23-year old Sylville Smith was shot by District 7 Officer Dominique Heaggan.
#090 Precious Lives: The Playoffs
Precious Lives - October 04, 2016 16:19 - 10 minutes - ★★★★ - 5 ratingsThis is the final episode of a three part series following a young basketball team. At 13 and 14 years old - these players are dealing with a lot more than basketball drills. They lost a teammate last year: 13 year old Giovonnie Cameron, who was shot and killed within the first week of the season...
#089 Precious Lives: The 'Fighting' Team Copes With a Teammate's Death
Precious Lives - September 27, 2016 16:05 - 10 minutes - ★★★★ - 5 ratingsPrecious Lives picks up where it left off last week with Coach Eric Moore. He coaches in a summer basketball league called Warning Project Respect. And he’s earned himself a reputation throughout the league as the “crying coach.”
#088 Precious Lives: The Crying Coach
Precious Lives - September 20, 2016 15:59 - 12 minutes - ★★★★ - 5 ratingsIf you are between the ages of eight and 48, love basketball and live in Milwaukee’s central city…you’ve probably been a part of Warning’s basketball league. Over 40 years old, the Warning basketball league is the third oldest in the nation. It’s a rite of passage, and for many youth, it’s the pl...
#087 Precious Lives: Remembering Eric Von
Precious Lives - September 13, 2016 15:01 - 19 minutes - ★★★★ - 5 ratingsOn Thursday, September 8th, Precious Lives host Eric Von died of a heart attack. He was 58.
#086 Precious Lives: Programming Sherman Park
Precious Lives - September 06, 2016 16:31 - 10 minutes - ★★★★ - 5 ratingsOn August 13th, all eyes turned to Milwaukee’s Sherman Park neighborhood. Protesters jumped on police cars and set buildings on fire, outraged over the police shooting of Sylville Smith.
#085 Precious Lives: Tragedy Inspires a Fight for Universal Background Checks
Precious Lives - August 30, 2016 16:55 - 9 minutes - ★★★★ - 5 ratingsLast year in Milwaukee, close to 70 percent of gun homicide suspects possessed their guns illegally.
Strong Public Support Fails to Move Wisconsin on Gun Background Checks
Precious Lives - August 28, 2016 10:00 - 8 minutes - ★★★★ - 5 ratingsOn a Sunday afternoon nearly four years ago, Elvin Daniel was in his garden when he got a call from police: His sister, ZinaHaughton, had been shot at work.
#084 Precious Lives: The Cost of Saying Goodbye
Precious Lives - August 23, 2016 16:10 - 10 minutes - ★★★★ - 5 ratingsMilwaukee zip code 53206 comes with a lot of labels: mass incarceration, poverty, violence.
#083 Precious Lives: Making Sense of the Weekend Unrest
Precious Lives - August 16, 2016 19:45 - 18 minutes - ★★★★ - 5 ratingsOn Saturday, August 14th, a Milwaukee police officer shot and killed 23-year old Sylville Smith near the intersection of West Auer Avenue and North 44th Street.
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