Ruby Schwartz

Music help from Damian Grafe and Rob Geddes.

Production help on today's rerun from Stowe Nelson, Adrienne Lilly, and Ruby Schwartz.

As I mentioned at the top of the show, this episode is a rerun.

I no longer work at This American Life.

Reaching Out is produced, written, and sound designed by Sarah Quevedo, editing by Maria Garcia, original music by Lucy Little, mixed by Stephanie Lebow, executive produced by Maria Garcia and Marlon Bishop.

The people who put our show together today include Nadia Raymond, who produced this episode, Adrian Lilly, Tobin Low, Andrea Marks, Stone Nelson, Ruthie Patido, Anthony Roman, Ruby Schwartz, Glory Sullivan, Francis Swanson, Christopher Sotola, Julie Whitaker, and Diane Wu.

Our managing editor, Sara Abdurrahman.

Our senior editors, David Kestenbaum and Nancy Updike.

Our program was produced and edited today by Nancy Updike with help from Ira Glass.

The people who put together today's show are Cassie Howley, Adrianne Lilly, Seth Lind, Katherine Raymundo, Stowe Nelson, Nadia Raymond, Ryan Rumery, Ruby Schwartz, Alyssa Ship, Christopher Switala, Julie Whitaker, and Diane Wu.

Our managing editor is Sarah Abdurrahman, our senior editor, David Kestenbaum, our executive editor, Emmanuel Berry.

Nikole's article is called In Fighting for Every Black Child, Did I Betray My Own? And you can find it on The New York Times website.