*The history of the Robb Elementary school where the massacre took place in Uvalde is important to the struggle, identity and the fight against cultural erasure. KPFA Flashpoints with Dennis Bernstein spoke to Camilo Perez Bustillo, director of research, advocacy and leadership development at the Hope Border Institute, based in the US-Mexico border region in El Paso, Texas, about this important history and resistance against segregation. *Longtime peace activist, intergenerational organizer, and author P.K. McCary (KPFT) in conversation with licensed and certified school counselor, educator and storyteller, Bronwyn Lucas about the mental and emotional well being of our children. *Texas teachers have faced one attack after another from the Covid pandemic and now the massacre in Uvalde. Pacificas Steve Zeltzer spoke with three teachers, Jacqueline Martinez, Michael Hull and Amy Lopez about the issues they are facing. *For the political and historical context behind the recent wave of mass shootings in the US we hear from historian and author Dr. Gerald Horne, Moores Professor of history at the University of Texas. * The Ethiopian rainy season that has just begun will mark the third filling of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, a project that has united Ethiopians throughout its construction. COVID, Race, & Democracys Ann Garrison reports from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.