Nikole's print version of her story is in The New York Times Magazine.

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Nikole Hannah-Jones has reported on school segregation for This American Life before. In "The Problem We All Live With," from 2015, she looks at a school district that accidentally started a desegregation program, and at why a strategy with so much evidence behind it has largely been abandoned.

Chana Joffe-Walt's 2020 series Nice White Parents, from Serial Productions and The New York Times, follows six decades of white parents' relationship with a single public school, turning attention to what is arguably the most powerful force in our schools: white parents.