“I had to go through the process of seeing my family grieve, seeing a family break apart, seeing the lasting impacts of having a death in the family, and dealing with two parents who, to this day, are still grieving the loss,” Carter testified to rolling out. “So I knew what I was doing when I approached the grieving parents. I knew the responsibility I had with this story. I knew the responsibility I had to care for my ‘moms’ (the grieving mothers).”
Carter hopes that the special she is hosting will help her and the guests and the audience learn from the other and find solace in each other.
Carter, a part of an investigative team at WXIA called “Atticus,” has already learned that despite the sometimes torturous bullying and teasing kids get in school, that represents the place where it happens the least.
“It’s in the workplace, in upper education, in the grocery store … school is like the training ground for the rest of your life,” Carter said experts elucidated to her.
“Some of the work I hope to do with this piece is getting more into that solution-based and how we need to start retraining our kids, retraining young minds, because the system that we have today is not going to help the kids for the rest of their lives.”
“A Different Cry” airs on TEGNA stations, Fire TV and Roku apps and the “Watch” section of all stations’ websites.
Watch the trailer below:
