View in browser

Featured This Week:

The series finale of This is Life with Lisa Ling.

HLN's hit series is coming to CNN.

New special report looks back at Sandy Hook. 

VIDEO: This fast-growing religion has ancient roots and a message of unity  

CNN's longest-running female-led series comes to an end

This Sunday is the series finale of This Is Life with Lisa Ling, CNN's longest-running female-led Original Series. For nine seasons, award-winning journalist and author Lisa Ling ventured to the far corners of America, exploring communities that are often unknown or misunderstood.

In the final two episodes, she takes on alcoholism and interracial marriage. 

At 9 p.m. ET, Ling explores America’s epidemic of alcoholism and how its upsurge through the pandemic is shockingly impacting the health of millions. 

Deaths caused by alcohol use in the US killed more than 49,000 people in 2020, according to data published by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

“What’s a word bigger than crisis?” said Marvin Ventrell, CEO of the National Association of Addiction Treatment Providers. “What was already a crisis has exploded.”

Then at 10 p.m. ET, Lisa Ling looks at how even in 2022, the stigma against interracial marriages continues. She meets three interracial couples who took a leap of love and explores the story of their lives in a divided country. 

Interracial marriage had steadily risen in the United States since 1967 when the Supreme Court unanimously struck down an anti-miscegenation law.

When a Gallup poll first asked Americans about their views on marriage between Black and White people in 1958, only 4% approved. Last year, that number was 94% — an all-time high – with 93% of Whites agreeing.

This is Life with Lisa Ling airs

Sunday at 9 and 10 p.m. ET.

You can also catch up on past episodes now on Discovery+ and CNNgo. 

LISTEN: Check out the Very Scary People podcast

HLN's Very Scary People is coming to CNN

HLN's Very Scary People, hosted by actor and singer Donnie Wahlberg, is coming to CNN this Saturday, starting at 11 p.m. ET. The series chronicles the twisted lives of some of the most frightening, diabolical characters in recent history.

First, at 11 p.m. ET:  The Iceman

He was a family man, living in a New Jersey suburb with his wife and three kids. But unbeknownst to his neighbors, Richard Kuklinski held a dark secret: he was the “Iceman” – a cold-blooded killer who was a part-time mob hitman for hire and a full-time psychopath. This intimidating, oversized killer managed to evade the police easily for years. That is until a few intelligent investigators started connecting the dots between seemingly unrelated murders and a mystery man known as “Big Rich.”

Then at 1 a.m. ET: Dr. Death

For nearly two decades, Michael Swango, a physician-turned-murderer, left a trail of death and mayhem across two continents. Suspicious illnesses and deaths followed this once-trusted doctor from hospital to hospital for nearly two decades, picking off unsuspecting coworkers and helpless patients.  What would make a well-respected doctor become one of the most prolific serial killers in the US? 

CNN remembers the victims of the 2012 Sandy Hook shooting in new special report

CNN is airing a special report on Sandy Hook: Forever Remembered for the 10th anniversary of the Sandy Hook Elementary School tragedy that killed 20 first graders and six adults.

CNN anchor Alisyn Camerota looks back at the victims’ families’ decade-long fight to change gun policy. The families share how they learned to navigate their new world of policymaking overnight. Connecticut Sen. Chris Murphy and former state Sen. John McKinney—both successful in passing sweeping state gun legislation – explain all the hurdles at the federal level.

The special goes inside the families’ devastating court battles, including the settlement they reached with gun manufacturer Remington Arms and the lawsuits against conspiracy theorist Alex Jones that would eventually award the families more than a billion dollars.

For more about Sandy Hook, check out:

• Opinion: Ten years after Sandy Hook, a mother offers a simple solution for ending gun violence 

• Video: Sandy Hook survivor speaks out ten years later

• Article: Sandy Hook parents push for changes in the decade since the school shooting

• Profiles: 10 years after Sandy Hook, the victims’ memories still endure

The special airs this Sunday at 8 p.m. ET. Click here to watch the trailer. 

This edition was written and edited by Janelle Davis and Alexis Garfield.