[What you need to know to start the day: Get New York Today in your inbox.] Two white girls in blackface grunted and swung their arms like apes. The six-second video snippet was recorded about two and half years ago, but it resurfaced this month, thrusting Poly Prep Country Day School in Brooklyn, one of New York City’s elite private schools, into the national conversation about racism. On Friday, hundreds of Poly Prep students, dressed in black, walked out of an assembly, filtered into the hallways and staged an hour-and-a-half sit-in, which was first reported by the Polygon, the student newspaper. A longer version of that video posted over the weekend led to divergent views about what had actually taken place.

Source: New York Times January 20, 2019 23:49 UTC