New York City is changing. Everyone can feel it.

Nowhere is that change more dramatic than in Bedford-Stuyvesant, one of the most iconic,

historically black neighborhoods in the United States.

And in Bed-Stuy, nowhere are the stakes higher than in the public schools.

Six hundred schools!

That's right!

PS-25, at the corner of Lafayette and Marcus Darvey Boulevard is supposed to hold 600 students.

Last year, they had 82.

And PS25 is just the most extreme example of what's happening across community school district 16,

which covers about half of beds die.

Almost every school in the district is hemorrhaging kids.

Something is wrong. This is School Colors, a new podcast from Brooklyn Deep about how race, class, and power shape

American cities and schools.

You're not born and raised here.

You're not do or die.

You just got here.

I am white, but I am no dummy. I know what Bedstuy means.

Oh, this is racism?

Damn.

What's happening by default is that the district is going to disappear.

What's really happening here?

Is it all about gentrification, white and middle-class families moving in and opting out?

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