#34: 'How The $%*!& Is That Good Enough?' (August 15 2015)

On a recent two-part story on This American Life, Nikole Hannah-Jones of The New York Times Magazine went to Normandy High School — the struggling St. Louis County school from which Michael Brown graduated just weeks before he was killed last year in Ferguson. Normandy is the lowest-ranked high school in Missouri and nearly entirely black, and when a series of events opened the door for hundreds of Normandy kids to be bussed to Francis Howell High School, a high-performing, mostly-white high school a few towns over, the Normandy kids were greeted with massive opposition from white parents.Nikole and G.D. talked about her reporting on the seemingly insurmountable problem of school segregation in America's schools, and why it makes sense to be pessimistic about America achieving racial equality. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.