School Colors

Here’s a preview of another podcast, Some of My Best Friends Are, from Pushkin Industries.... more

This is the second of two bonus episodes recorded live at the Queens Public Library on Dec... more

This is the first of two bonus episodes recorded live at the Queens Public Library on Dece... more

Over the course of this season, we've explored a rich history and complicated present — bu... more

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

In 2018, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announced a plan to replace the Specialized Hi... more

In some ways, this entire season was prompted by the parents who organized against diversi... more

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

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

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

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

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

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

School Colors is back! Season 2 premieres this week, presented by NPR's Code Switch. To li... more

Every month on the Third Rail podcast, Brooklyn Deep deconstructs hot topics and social ju... more

In this bonus episode, recorded live at the Brooklyn Public Library, producers Mark Winsto... more

Despite New York City's progressive self-image, our dirty secret is that we have one of th... more

Gentrification is reshaping cities all over the country: more affluent people, often but n... more

If you ask most people in Bed-Stuy’s District 16 why they think enrollment is falling, cha... more

Since 2002, the number of students in Bed-Stuy’s District 16 has dropped by more than half... more

In the wake of the 1968 teachers’ strikes, Black people in Central Brooklyn continued to f... more

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

In the late 1960s, the Central Brooklyn neighborhood of Ocean Hill-Brownsville was at the ... more

Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn is one of the most iconic historically Black neighborhoods in... more

Bedford-Stuyvesant is one of the most iconic historically Black neighborhoods in the Unite... more