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NEXT Episode 226: Hope And Conflict At Bami Farm

On this week's episode of New England News Colaborative's podcast NEXT, the story of Bami Farm in Rhode Island. A group of immigrants started a community farm in a Yankee farming town; their presence was complicated by race and rural American identity. Plus, how the pandemic has accelerated the debate over driver’s licenses for undocumented immigrants in Massachusetts. And journalist Maria Hinojosa talks about what’s at stake if public media fails to become more diverse.

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