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Culture
After my daddy died, I wanted nothing to do with his guns. Years later, they’ve revealed a connection that we never had the chance to enjoy in life.
Longform
It took a second for the gun to accidentally go off, weeks for Florida to pass a law to keep guns out of children’s hands, and a lifetime for Sean Smith to forgive himself.
In Memoriam
A portrait of the Emanuel AME Wednesday Bible study group in the hours that everything and nothing changed.
