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Arab and Black communities are trying to reconcile after Trump's election

40 years ago, Philadelphia police bombed this Black neighborhood on live TV

In the face of trans erasure, what can we learn from Marsha P. Johnson?

Why now is the time to find power in "otherness"

Revisiting the fight over the Lakota language as Trump targets "divisive narratives"

Why Trump is sending Venezuelans to El Salvador

What's lost in Trump's DEI ban?

With measles on the rise, what we can learn from past epidemics

What Mahmoud Khalil's arrest means for ... everyone

This Palestinian-American's debut novel may not be political — but her existence is

A look at the human toll of the construction of the Panama Canal

Black audiences see themselves centered in a brand new soap opera

The NFL's concussion problem beyond CTE

What a Black enclave lost in the Los Angeles wildfires

An NFL star on what the game costs those who play it

Untangling the history of Black rights on Native land

What football tells us about race, labor and power

Hip-hop is 'fight the power' but also advertises for the power

B.A. Parker is learning the banjo

The co-opting of MLK Jr. by...everybody

Why laughing while crying is so Korean

"The police are our friends"?

How celebrating an Ecuadorian New Year's tradition brings us closer together

He was shot in Vermont. Now he wants to go home to the West Bank

Luigi Mangione and America's pent up pain

Freedom, Autonomy and the Elián González Story

Dreaming of a Black Utopia in Trump's America

Where tradwives and leftists agree

Momfluencers, tradwives, and the perils of modern motherhood

The 'little r' racist idea that swung the election

When Pretendian investigations go wrong

The day Trump won...again

You can't outrun voters' feelings about the economy

Diving into the Black Manosphere

Spitting on Andrew Jackson's grave with Rebecca Nagle

In Michigan, Arab Americans weigh the power of a vote

Ask Code Switch: Am I the "token" at work?

Two Palestinian writers on the right to share their stories

Ask Code Switch: Is it a preference or fetish?

The Trump campaign strategy to demonize Haitian immigrants

Ask Code Switch: Is picky eating about taste or race?

Latinos are moving to the far right. Paola Ramos thinks she knows why

Ask Code Switch: Do bike lanes cause gentrification?

Fighting back on book bans

Ask Code Switch: The racial politics of washing dishes?

The park. Sunday. Queens, New York.

Ask Code Switch: Is this a racist question?

Going back to school with schizoaffective disorder

What James Baldwin can teach us about Israel, and ourselves

Black praise in white pews: When your church doesn't love you back

Race, Romance and Reality TV

Who's "woman" enough: The long history of sex testing in sports

The beauty and entitlement of traveling as a tourist

'Not a badge of honor': how book bans affect Indigenous literature

Kamala Harris, Revisited

The return of the U.S.'s oldest drag king

Honoring my enslaved ancestors: Episode 2

Honoring my enslaved ancestors: Episode 1

How one event in history can ripple through generations of a family

The truth and lies behind one of the most banned books in America

Some freed people actually received '40 acres and a mule.' Then it got taken away.

The history of trans misogyny is the history of segregation

Should we stop using the word "felon"?

100 years of immigration policies working to keep out immigrants

White evangelical Christians are some of Israel's biggest supporters. Why?

Falling in love in a time of colonization

Why the trope of the 'outside agitator' persists

In 'Chicano Frankenstein,' the undead are the new underpaid labor force

Exclusion, resilience and the Chinese American experience on 'Mott Street'

How Jewish Communities Are Divided Over Support of Israel

The Rise and Fall of the Panama Canal

Reflecting on the legacy of O.J. Simpson

How Frederick Douglass launched generations of Black and Irish solidarity

WTF does race have to do with taxes?

Who does language belong to? A fight over the Lakota Language

Getting let down by the 'Great Expectations' of electoral politics

In the world of medicine, race-based diagnoses are more than skin deep

This conspiracy theory about eating bugs is also about race

The musical legacy of Japanese American incarceration

Why menthol cigarettes have a chokehold on Black smokers

Before the apps, people used newspapers to find love

How college footballers led the fight against racism in 1969

What it's like to be a Black woman with bipolar disorder

Taylor Swift and the unbearable whiteness of girlhood

A former church girl's search for a new spiritual home

What happens when public housing goes private?

The women who masterminded the Montgomery Bus Boycott

Everyone wants a piece of Martin Luther King Jr.'s legacy

67 years after desegregation, Arkansas schools are in the spotlight again

Women of color have always shaped the way Americans eat

Here are our favorite Code Switch episodes from 2023

Revisiting 'The Color Purple' wars

This is what "real self-care" looks like

Watching 'Renaissance' and what we hear in Beyoncé's silence

The world can be painful. But love is possible, too

Can you travel the world — ethically?

A Tale of Two Tribal Nations

Who Has The "Right To A Story?"

How does a computer discriminate?

All The Only Ones: The Missing Piece Of The Puzzle

Looking For My People In The Black Punk Scene

Giving up on identity with Ada Limón

The agony and ecstasy of parenting with Hari Kondabolu

What does it mean to be good?

Student activists are fighting big coal, and winning

Probation and parole — the under-researched arms of mass incarceration

'I Can Die For This Country, But I Can't Learn'

Remembering and unremembering, from Kigali to Nashville

Fall football — or the fall of football?

Bad Bunny, Reggaeton, and Resistance

What Makes A Good Race Joke?

Family, fortune, and the fight for Osage headrights

How Hip-Hop Fights The Power — And Also Serves It

How Hip-Hop Fights The Power — And Also Serves It

Rolling the dice on race in Dungeons & Dragons

Code Switch's beach reads — no beach required

This Conspiracy Soup Contains Bugs — And Racism

Is "home" still home after 30 years away?

What Happens After A Racist Massacre In Your Neighborhood?

Honoring My Enslaved Ancestors, Part Two

Honoring My Enslaved Ancestors, Part One

Honoring My Enslaved Ancestors, Part One

Going to a white church in a Black body

Spilling the "T" with comedian D'Lo

Exclusion, resilience and the Chinese American experience on 'Mott Street'

Across the ocean: a Japanese American story of war and homecoming

The implications of the case against ICWA

Naomi Jackson talks 'losing and finding my mind'

K-Pop's Surprising B(l)ackstory

The Fallout of a Callout

Self-Care Laid Bare

W2s and WTFs

Women in hip-hop push back against the male gaze

The Tricky Obligations of Utang Na Loob

The Women Behind the Montgomery Bus Boycott

Whose Nightmares Are We Telling? How Horror Has Evolved for People of Color

The Women Who Influence How America Eats

This Racism Is Killing Me Inside

Black History's Family Tree

The Merengue War

Reckoning With The NFL's Rooney Rule

Celebrating Lunar New Year In A Time Of Grief

The Original Rainbow Coalition

The Original Rainbow Coalition

Bad Bunny, Reggaeton, and Resistance

Meet Lori Lizarraga—Our Newest Co-host

Revisiting 'How The Other Half Eats'

How cumbia has shaped music across Latin America

Unlocking family history in 'Before Me'

What We Watched in 2022

Why some Republicans want to narrow who counts as Black

Notes from America: 'Blackness (Un)interrupted'

A lost bird, a found treasure

Live from Chicago: What makes a city home?

Throughline: How Korean culture went global

Code Switch fam! Say hello to It's Been a Minute's new host, Brittany Luse!

Fear In An Age Of Real Life Horror, Revisited

Skeletons in the closet, revisited

Black reality in a world of fantasy

Omar Apollo on making music, being queer and Latinx

Gaming out race in Dungeons & Dragons

In 1962, segregationists set up "Reverse Freedom Rides"

Can therapy solve racism?

How the Pell Grant helped POCs go to college

What does it mean to "inherit whiteness?"

What makes a good race joke?

What's so funny about race?

Into the glittering neon universe of 'P-Valley' with Katori Hall

Lost In Translation

Meet B.A. Parker — our new co-host!

Who belongs in the Cherokee Nation?

Who belongs in the Cherokee Nation?

School Colors Episode 9: "Water Under The Bridge"

Code Switch's playlist for a summer road trip

School Colors Bonus: "Ms. Mitchell's Pandemic Diary"

'Wherever you go, there you are'

School Colors Episode 8: "The Only Way Out"

No Man's Land

School Colors Episode 7: "The Sleeping Giant"

On Food, Mattress Sales, and Juneteenth

School Colors Episode 6: "Below Liberty"

The impact of COVID-19, a million deaths in

Spilling the T

School Colors Episode 5: "The Melting Pot"

Rethinking 'safety' in the wake of Uvalde

School Colors Episode 4: "The Mason-Dixon Line"

How We Decide Who Is 'Worthy of Welcome'

School Colors Episode 3: "The Battle of Forest Hills"

The Utang Clan

School Colors Episode 2: "Tales From The Southside"

School Colors Episode 1: "There Is No Plan"

Coming Soon: Code Switch presents 'School Colors'

The LA Uprising, a generation later

Race, queerness, and superpowers in 'Everything, Everywhere, All at Once'

A makeup company gets a facelift

A New Movement on Standing Rock

The dance that made its way from Harlem to Sweden

Why the N-word is so toxic

Screams and Silence

What's In A Dad?

Mabel Fairbanks: The Ice Breaker

The rise and fall of 'America's Dad'

Can therapy solve racism?

Humor, poetry and romance on Code Switch Live

Bonus Episode: Consider the Lobstermen

The 'double-edged sword' of being a Black first

Bonus: Getting real (like, really real) with Gabrielle Union

Playing Pretendian

Bonus: Remembering the iconic, complicated André Leon Talley

A whiteness that's only skin deep

They came, they saw, they reckoned?

Nikole Hannah-Jones on the power of collective memory

Ask Code Switch: What Does Race Have To Do With Beauty?

What We Watched in 2021

Bonus Episode: The blessing and curse of the '90s Latin Pop Explosion

What Is 'Latin Music' Anyway?

A Glimpse At 'How The Other Half Eats'

Imagining A World Without Prisons Or Police

Ask Code Switch: Thought For Food

'The Characters Are The Light'

'Being Fly Is An Act Of Community'

Love And Blood Quantum

Ask Code Switch: Parents Just Don't Understand

Painting By Numbers

Skeletons In The Closet

The Once And Future 'Karen'

The Rise Of The BBL

The Dramatic Life Of The American Teenager

Who You Calling 'Hispanic'?

The Making And Remaking Of Afghanistan

The Lost Summer

The Folk Devil Made Me Do It

'Seeing Ghosts' Across Generations

Who Runs The World? Kids.

Care To Explain Yourself?

Violence That Doesn't Go Viral

To Love And Not Forgive

Words To Set You Free

What Does It Mean To Be Latino? The 'Light-Skinned Privilege' Edition

Égalité, Fraternité, And 'Libertie'

A Good ACT To Follow

'Where We Come From': By Any Other Name

Ballers, Shot Callers

A Taste Of Freedom

The Racial Reckoning That Wasn't

Where Are You Really From?

Tulsa, 100 Years Later

The Sum Of Our Parts

The Kid Mero Talks 'What It Means To Be Latino'

Show Me The Money

Live From Philly*: A Code Switch Jawn

A Utopia For Black Capitalism

Do The Golden Arches Bend Toward Justice?

Spit A Verse, Drop Some Knowledge

Why Are We Here?

Screams And Silence

Lonnie Bunch And The 'Museum Of No'

Saving A Language You're Learning To Speak

David (Pronounced dah-VEED) Versus Goliath

'Payback's A B****'

A Shot In The Dark

Becoming 'Black Moses'

Black Kiss-tory

Who's 'Black Enough' For Reparations?

Stepping Out Of The Shadow Of 'Killer King'

The Last Four Years

From The Fringe To The Capitol

Finding 'A Perfect Match'

The Fire Still Burning

From Generation To Generation

Family Stories, Family Lies

Black And Up In Arms

The Books That Got Away

Stepping Back Inside Carmen Maria Machado's 'Dream House'

Words Of Advice

Thank You, Next

The White Elephants In The Room

Claim Us If You're Famous

We ... Don't Know Anything Yet

An Historic Vote, Among Many

The Latinx Vote Comes Of Age

Is Trump Really That Racist?

Let's Talk About Kamala Harris

Hip-Hop, Mass Incarceration, And A Conspiracy Theory For The Ages

A Treaty Right For Cherokee Representation

A New Look For The Fashion Industry?

Is It Time To Say R.I.P. To 'POC'?

Battle Of The Books

The Protests Heard 'Round The World

The Kids Are All Right

Balls And Strikes

The United States' Pre-Existing Conditions

Keep Your Friends Closer

Kamala, Joe, And The Fissures In The Base

Bonus Episode: Katrina, 15 Years Later

The Long, Bloody Strike For Ethnic Studies

One Korean American's Reckoning

Un-HolyLand? An Arab Muslim Reckoning With Racism

Remembering The 'Divine Diahann Carroll'

What's In A 'Karen'?

An Immune System

We Aren't Who We Think We Are

They Don't Say Our Names Enough

Author Karla Cornejo Villavicencio Talks 'The Undocumented Americans'

DACA Decision: Check-In with Miriam Gonzalez

Why Now, White People?

Bonus Episode: 'Not Just Another Protest'

Unmasking The 'Outside Agitator'

A Decade Of Watching Black People Die

Songs Giving Us (Much Needed) Life

COVID Diaries: Jessica And Sean Apply For A Loan

Ask Code Switch: The Coronavirus Edition

What Does 'Hood Feminism' Mean For A Pandemic?

When Poets Decide Who Counts

Puerto Rico, Island Of Racial Harmony?

The News Beyond The COVID Numbers

Black Like Who?

Why The Coronavirus Is Hitting Black Communities Hardest

A Treacherous Choice And A Treaty Right

Mother, Should I Trust The Census Bureau?

Code Switch: Race. In Your Face.

Sex, Friendship And Aging: 'It's Not All Downhill From Here'

The All-Women Mariachi Group That's Lifting Our Spirits

The Limits Of Empathy

When Fear Of The Coronavirus Turns Into Racism And Xenophobia

Claude Neal: A Strange And Bitter Crop

Blexodus: The Black Exodus From The GOP

Pt. 2: Black Parents Take Control, Teachers Strike Back

Black Parents Take Control, Teachers Strike Back

Books For Your Mind, Belly And Soul

Bonus Episode: 'Between Friends' From WNYC

Ask Code Switch: What About Your Friends?

Is The Door To Iran Closed Forever?

Carmen Maria Machado Takes Us 'In The Dream House'

Beautiful Lies

The Birth Of A 'New Negro'

Who Shot Ya?

The Martha's Vineyard migrant flight has echoes of a dark past: Reverse Freedom Rides

Death Of A Blood Sport

Sometimes Explain, Always Complain

Sex, Lies And Audio Tape

Status Update

Is This What It Means To Be White?

Fear In An Age Of Real-Life Horror

A Strange And Bitter Crop

President Trump's (Anti-)Social Media

That's The Anthem, Get Your [Dang] Hands Up!

Political Prisoners?

The Original Blexit

The Black Table In The Big Tent

A Tale Of Two School Districts

Searching For Punks

'20 And Odd. Negroes'

All That Glisters Is Not Gold

Dora's Lasting Magic

After The Cameras Leave

Puerto Ricans Stand Up

Chicago's Red Summer

Oh So Now It's Racist?

The Return Of Race Science

America's Concentration Camps?