Here’s a preview of another podcast, Some of My Best Friends Are, from Pushkin Industries. Harvard professor Khalil Gibran Muhammad... more

This is the second of two bonus episodes recorded live at the Queens Public Library on December 15, 2022. After... more

This is the first of two bonus episodes recorded live at the Queens Public Library on December 15, 2022. Mark... more

Over the course of this season, we've explored a rich history and complicated present — but what about the future?... more

"I know this work can take you under if you let it, so I try not to let it take... more

In 2018, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announced a plan to replace the Specialized High School Admissions Test,... more

In some ways, this entire season was prompted by the parents who organized against diversity planning in District 28. So... more

Queens has changed a lot in the last few decades — and so has District 28. New immigrant communities have... more

Until recently, District 28 was characterized by a white Northside, and a Black Southside. For more than a hundred years,... more

So much of the present day conversation about District 28 hinges on the dynamic between the Northside and the Southside.... more

In the early 1970s, Forest Hills, Queens, became a national symbol of white, middle class resistance to integration. Instead of... more

District 28 is both diverse and segregated. There’s a Northside and a Southside. To put it simply: the Southside is... more

Queens, New York is often called “the most diverse place on the planet.” So why would a school district in... more

School Colors is back! Season 2 premieres this week, presented by NPR's Code Switch. To listen, hop over to the... more

Every month on the Third Rail podcast, Brooklyn Deep deconstructs hot topics and social justice issues that impact the lives... more

In this bonus episode, recorded live at the Brooklyn Public Library, producers Mark Winston Griffith and Max Freedman talk with... more

Despite New York City's progressive self-image, our dirty secret is that we have one of the most deeply segregated school... more

Gentrification is reshaping cities all over the country: more affluent people, often but not always white, are moving into historically... more

If you ask most people in Bed-Stuy’s District 16 why they think enrollment is falling, chances are they’ll point to... more

Since 2002, the number of students in Bed-Stuy’s District 16 has dropped by more than half. There’s no single reason... more

In the wake of the 1968 teachers’ strikes, Black people in Central Brooklyn continued to fight for self-determination in education... more

In the fall of 1968, New York City teachers went on strike three times, in reaction to an experiment in... more

In the late 1960s, the Central Brooklyn neighborhood of Ocean Hill-Brownsville was at the center of a bold experiment in... more

Bedford-Stuyvesant is one of the most iconic historically Black neighborhoods in the United States. Community School District 16 covers about... more