{"href":"https://api.simplecast.com/oembed?url=https%3A%2F%2Fschoolcolors.simplecast.com%2Fepisodes%2Fepisode-1-old-school-4BdST8_t","width":444,"version":"1.0","type":"rich","title":"S1 E1: Old School","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_url":"https://image.simplecastcdn.com/images/a295c480-0f10-4883-995e-595fa4bb2a56/55c1c98f-8736-47b3-9ca2-05686758336c/703.jpg","thumbnail_height":300,"provider_url":"https://simplecast.com","provider_name":"Simplecast","html":"<iframe src=\"https://player.simplecast.com/c839ed69-d350-402a-9ce3-f42d4219c9e6\" height=\"200\" width=\"100%\" title=\"S1 E1: Old School\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"></iframe>","height":200,"description":"Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn is one of the most iconic historically Black neighborhoods in the United States. But Bed-Stuy is changing. Fifty years ago, schools in Bed-Stuy's District 16 were so overcrowded that students went to school in shifts. Today, they're half-empty. Why? \n\nIn trying to answer that question, we discovered that the biggest, oldest questions we have as a country about race, class, and power have been tested in the schools of Central Brooklyn for as long as there have been Black children here. And that's a long, long time.\n\nIn this episode, we visit the site of a free Black settlement in Brooklyn founded in 1838; speak to one of the first Black principals in New York City; and find out why half a million students mobilized in support of school integration couldn’t force the Board of Education to produce a citywide plan."}