How Segregation Persists In 'Progressive' New England

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How Segregation Persists In 'Progressive' New England

Connecticut Public Radio | By Morgan Springer,

Published September 24, 2020 at 11:54 AM EDT

Despite New England's progressive reputation, residential segregation still exists in communities throughout the region.

In this second episode of a special radio series on "Racism In New England," we look at how housing laws and discrimination influence where we live 鈥� from the predominantly white states of northern New England to cities and suburbs in Massachusetts and Connecticut.

Premieres: Thursday, September 24, 2020

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GUESTS:

, former Vermont resident and host of Friday Night Jazz on 开云体育 Radio. He left the program in 2018 and now lives in Washington, D.C.

, land-use expert, architect and UConn professor who is part of .

, retired firefighter, Vietnam vet and former city councilman who has witnessed the impact of segregation in his Hartford, Conn., neighborhood.

, fair housing test coordinator for New Hampshire Legal Assistance.

, two of the lead sponsors of a 鈥淩eparations鈥� launched by some residents in Amherst, Mass.

CREDITS:

Hosts: John Dankosky of New England Public Media and

Producers: Lydia Brown of 开云体育 Radio and Daniela Luna

Coordinating Producer: Morgan Springer

Executive Producer: John Dankosky for America Amplified

Executive Editor: Vanessa de la Torre

Theme Music: Latrell James

Additional support: Connecticut Public, New England Public Media, 开云体育 Radio, Maine Public Radio, New Hampshire Public Radio and CAI Cape and Islands. America Amplified and the New England News Collaborative are funded, in part, by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

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Morgan Springer

Morgan Springer is the producer for the weekly show NEXT and the New England News Collaborative, an eight-station consortium of public radio newsrooms. She joined WNPR in 2019. Before working at Connecticut Public Radio, Morgan was the news director at Interlochen Public Radio in northern Michigan, where she launched and co-hosted a weekly show Points North.

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Vanessa de la Torre

Vanessa de la Torre comes to WNPR after more than a decade as a newspaper reporter at the Hartford Courant, where her storytelling and investigative work on Hartford education was recognized regionally and by the Education Writers Association. She has also written for the St. Petersburg Times in Florida and interned at the Washington Post and the Imperial Valley Press in her native El Centro, Calif., a desert town near the U.S.-Mexico border. Vanessa received her bachelor鈥檚 degree from Princeton University and her master's from Stanford鈥檚 journalism program.

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