Keeping Score: A Year Inside a Divided Brooklyn High School
The Political Scene | The New Yorker12 Sep 2022

Keeping Score: A Year Inside a Divided Brooklyn High School

Nearly seventy years after the Brown v. Board of Education decision, our public schools effectively remain segregated. And, by some measures, New York City has the most segregated system in the country. For a group of high schools in Brooklyn, change has long seemed impossible. But now those schools are putting their hopes in an unlikely place: sports. The John Jay Educational Campus in Park Slope, Brooklyn, houses four public high schools. Three of them have a student body with a Black-and-Latino majority; the fourth is disproportionately white and Asian. For a decade, students from all four schools shared a cafeteria and a gym but played on two separate sports teams—sometimes even competing against one other. Last year, the athletics programs merged, and the hope is that this change will break down some of the divisions between students. Angelina Sharifi, a student who plays volleyball, said that a team has to mesh in order to win. “And meshing is, like, the best feeling ever—having a pass, set, swing, that fits perfectly with one another,” she said. “That kind of unspoken connection that comes with volleyball is super-satisfying for me. This is a story of how students and adults grapple with enduring inequities, and how the merger is playing out on the girls’ varsity volleyball team. “I want this to work. I really do,” the student Mariah Morgan said, “because it has the potential to be incredibly anti-racist.” This reporting originally aired as part of the podcast “Keeping Score,” a co-production of WNYC Studios and The Bell.

Avsnitt(150)

Can America’s Aging Leadership Deliver the Future?

Can America’s Aging Leadership Deliver the Future?

Many of the most important and powerful people in Washington, D.C., are on the older side. Joe Biden turned eighty last week. Mitch McConnell is also eighty. Nancy Pelosi, who recently stepped away fr...

25 Nov 202230min

Hollywood’s Backlash to “Wokeness”

Hollywood’s Backlash to “Wokeness”

Supposedly, things in Hollywood have been changing for women and people of color. After the #MeToo, #OscarsSoWhite, and Black Lives Matter movements, leaders in the entertainment industry promised a l...

23 Nov 202238min

How Qatar Took the World Cup

How Qatar Took the World Cup

No self-respecting sports fan is naïve about the role that money plays in pro sports. But, by any standard, the greed and cynicism behind the World Cup are extraordinary. The cloud of scandal surround...

21 Nov 202220min

Trump Tries to Return, and Nancy Pelosi Steps Aside

Trump Tries to Return, and Nancy Pelosi Steps Aside

Donald Trump announced his third bid for the White House this week. But the landscape is very different from when he glided down the Trump Tower escalator in 2015. He has lost the popular vote twice. ...

18 Nov 202245min

Are We In Denial About the End of Election Denialism?

Are We In Denial About the End of Election Denialism?

​​Nearly four hundred election deniers ran in the midterms, and not only did the highest-profile among them lose their races, they even willingly conceded. Does this mean that Donald Trump’s “Stop the...

16 Nov 202233min

Introducing The Political Scene

Introducing The Political Scene

Today we’re unveiling The Political Scene, an expanded and reimagined version of our flagship politics podcast, showcasing the great political journalism of The New Yorker. We’re thrilled to announce ...

15 Nov 202216min

The Man Who Escaped from Auschwitz to Warn the World

The Man Who Escaped from Auschwitz to Warn the World

Rudolf Vrba was sent to Auschwitz at the age of seventeen, and, because he was young and in good health, he was not killed immediately but put to labor in the camp. Vrba (originally named Walter Rosen...

14 Nov 202233min

How New York Became the Democrats’ Weak Link

How New York Became the Democrats’ Weak Link

On Tuesday, as results from the midterms came in, Democrats were pleased to see that a predicted red wave had not come to pass. That is, with one exception: in the bright blue state of New York. So fa...

10 Nov 202226min

Populärt inom Politik & nyheter

aftonbladet-krim
p3-krim
svenska-fall
rss-krimstad
spar
flashback-forever
rss-sanning-konsekvens
rss-vad-fan-hande
aftonbladet-daily
motiv
rss-aftonbladet-krim
rss-flodet
politiken
rss-klubbland-en-podd-mest-om-frolunda
rss-frandfors-horna
rss-krimreportrarna
grans
krimmagasinet
dagens-eko
olyckan-inifran