Ryan Rumery

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.