Reflecting on the author's experience writing about young Black boys in a dangerous neighborhood and the subsequent story about exceptional young Black men and desegregation efforts. Also discussing the speaker's organization to find talented children and their experience writing about the Virginia Episcopal School.
Mosi Secret has written for ProPublica, The New York Times Magazine, and GQ. His new podcast is Radical.
“I think this story made me call on parts of myself that are not journalistic because I don’t really think that’s the way we’re going to get out of this at this point in my life. I think that it takes a more radical reimagining of who we are as human beings, the ways in which we’re connected, and what we owe to each other. And that’s not a reporting thing—that’s a ‘who are you’ kind of thing.”
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