School Colors

Podcast by Mark Winston Griffith and Max Freedman

Season one of School Colors is an eight-part documentary podcast on the history of Ocean Hill-Brownsville in Brooklyn where “Black and Puerto Rican parents tried to exercise power over their schools and they collided head first with the teachers’ union — leading to the longest teachers’ strike in U.S. history.”

Ocean Hill-Brownsville is referenced in Advanced Ideas About Democracy by Vincent Harding.

The podcast is relevant to classes on the history of New York, the Civil Rights Movement, labor organizing, and/or schooling.

Co-hosted by Mark Winston Griffith and Max Freedman. Produced by Brooklyn Deep.