‘It’s how we grew up’: Buffalo’s struggle to escape the shadow of segregation | Buffalo shooting

When Darius Pridgen, 47, was a young boy in east Buffalo, his parents sent him to predominantly white Christian schools in the suburbs. They wanted him to have a better education and a childhood.

Pridgen, now president of the city council and a senior pastor at True Bethel Baptist Church, rode multiple buses to get to the private school, entering “a whole ’nother world”, he said, adding that he didn’t recall having known . . .