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Journalist and podcast host Leon Neyfakh discusses "The Battle for Boston" - season three of the Luminary podcast "Fiasco." Talking with CBS News national correspondent Errol Barnett, Neyfakh shares what he uncovered about the efforts to desegregate Boston's public schools and the backlash that followed. He explains how ramifications from the violence and racial upheaval that resulted from the busing program are still felt today; plus what parallels can be drawn to today's racial reckoning.
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Journalist and podcast host Leon Neyfakh discusses "The Battle for Boston" - season three of the Luminary podcast "Fiasco." Talking with CBS News national correspondent Errol Barnett, Neyfakh shares what he uncovered about the efforts to desegregate Boston's public schools and the backlash that followed. He explains how ramifications from the violence and racial upheaval that resulted from the busing program are still felt today; plus what parallels can be drawn to today's racial reckoning.

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