The Role 'Nice White Parents' Play in School Segregation

The Brian Lehrer Show | Sep 8, 2020

Chana Joffe-Walt, producer for This American Life and host of the new podcast Nice White Parents, and Dr. Rachel Lissy, senior Program Officer at Ramapo for Children, talk about investigating the relationship between white parents and segregation at one New York City school.

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