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Writing Heals: Brasheed Cook, 32, loved boxing, his family and a good joke
This story was produced as part of our Writing Heals program, in which we hire a family member of the deceased to write the story of the loved one they lost. For more information or to sign up to write about someone you lost to gun violence, click here. ___________________________________________________ By Dana Cook, Rasheed’s mother […]
SIGN UP for Writing Heals—a program to pay family members to tell their loved one’s stories
CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP Thanks to funding from the Independence Public Media Foundation, we have launched a program to empower families to share the life stories of loved ones they’ve lost to gun violence. It’s called “Writing Heals,” and we guide family members on how to craft personal, positive narratives about their relatives. Families ARE PAID $200 […]
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Every month, we create a placeholder webpage for each person murdered in Philadelphia. Our hope is to elevate these pages into fully written stories with photos that show who each victim was as a person. Through storytelling, we're shining a light on the human toll of gun violence in Philadelphia.