Serial

By Serial Productions & The New York TimesSociety & Culture News True Crime

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Serial episodes

April 28, 2021 The Improvement Association - Ep. 1
Following a notorious case of election fraud in Bladen County, North Carolina, in 2018, the reporter Zoe Chace gets an invitation from Horace Munn, the leader of the Bladen County Improvement Association PAC, a Black political advocacy group whose name was dragged into the scandal. Horace asks Zoe to come down and investigate for herself and find out who is really cheating.
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47 min
March 30, 2021 The Improvement Association - Trailer
Listen to the trailer for our newest show, "The Improvement Association." From Serial Productions and The New York Times, hosted by Zoe Chace.
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4 min
August 20, 2020 Nice White Parents - Ep. 5: ‘We Know It When We See It’
An unexpected last chapter. Some white parents start behaving differently.
53 min
August 20, 2020 Nice White Parents - Ep. 4: ‘Here’s Another Fun Thing You Can Do’
Is it possible to limit the power of white parents?
49 min
August 20, 2020 Nice White Parents - Ep. 3: ‘This Is Our School, How Dare You?’
We saw what happens when white families come into the school. What happens when they stay out?
46 min
August 20, 2020 Nice White Parents - Ep. 2
Chana Joffe-Walt searches the New York City Board of Education archives for more information about the School for International Studies, which was originally called I.S. 293.
In the process, she finds a folder of letters written in 1963 by mostly white families in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn. They are asking for the board to change the proposed construction of the school to a site where it would be more likely to be racially integrated.
It’s less than a decade after Brown v. Board of Education, amid a growing civil rights movement, and the white parents writing letters are emphatic that they want an integrated school. They get their way and the school site changes — but after that, nothing else goes as planned.
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52 min
August 20, 2020 Nice White Parents - Ep. 1
It’s 2015 and one Brooklyn middle school is about to receive a huge influx of new students.
Reporter Chana Joffe Walt follows what happens when the School for International Studies’s 6th grade class swells from 30 mostly Latino, Black and Middle Eastern students, to a class of 103 —an influx almost entirely driven by white families.
Everyone wants “what’s best for the school” but it becomes clear that they don’t share the same vision of what “best” means.
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1 hr 3 min
November 20, 2018 S-Town - Chapter VII
“You’re beginning to figure it out now, aren’t you?”
1 hr 2 min
November 20, 2018 S-Town - Chapter VI
“Since everyone around here thinks I’m a queer anyway.”
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46 min
November 20, 2018 S-Town - Chapter V
“Nobody’ll ever change my mind about it.”
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1 hr 1 min