Chapter 2: Friday Night Lights

American Suburb by KQED

Sep 20, 201723:27Society & Culture

With the country’s No. 1 high school football recruit - Najee Harris - Principal Louie Rocha and the Antioch High School football team haven’t had it this good since 1978. It was a nearly all-white team then. It’s not th...

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