What Went Wrong With a School Diversity Plan in Queens?

The Brian Lehrer Show | May 13, 2022

Queens is one of the most diverse places on earth. But like a lot of New York City, it's also segregated. Mark Winston Griffith, executive editor of Brooklyn Deep and co-host of the podcast School Colors, now on NPR's Code Switch and Max Freedman, co-host of the podcast School Colors and the creator and producer of the podcast Unsettled, talk about their reporting into a school diversity plan in District 28 in Queens that proved to be hugely controversial.

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NJ Gov. Sherrill: If state police were too aggressive at Delaney Hall, we'll look into it

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