{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"Episode 1: Roadmap to Nowhere","description":"Philadelphia experienced a tragic surge in gun violence in 2020, with 499 of our fellow residents killed and another 2,200 shot. Like other cities across the country, there were several factors for the uptick in violence, including the Covid-19 pandemic, which devastated some neighborhoods and many residents physically and economically. But Philadelphia was already experiencing an uptick in shootings, even before the pandemic hit. And that violence continues unabated today. In February 2020, The Citizen commissioned bestselling author\/journalist\/podcaster Jo Piazza to try to understand the causes, effects and fixes for gun violence. A month later, Covid-19 came to Philly. Piazza spent the ensuing months navigating the twin epidemics, recognizing the parallels in who was affected and how the afflictions manifested in certain neighborhoods\u2014and the differences in how we as a city reacted. Her seven-episode podcast tells the stories of Philadelphians intimately affected by the city\u2019s gun violence, those working to end it, those who have found solutions here and elsewhere\u2014and those who have failed to step up to this moment when we most need them. Philly Under Fire is a podcast of stories and solutions. You can\u2019t solve a problem you can\u2019t see. This first episode takes us behind the scenes of the city's ongoing meetings to address the current gun violence crisis. We highlight the work of the Philadelphia Obituary Project, a nonprofit organization that seeks to memorialize the lives of Philadelphians killed by gun violence. We also speak to Kimberly Kamara, an activist, a mother and a children\u2019s book author who published a children\u2019s book called \u201cWhere\u2019s My Daddy?\u201d to explain her son\u2019s death by gun violence to the little boy he left behind. ","author_name":"Philly Under Fire","author_url":"http:\/\/phillyunderfire.libsyn.com\/website","html":"