Reflecting on the legacy of O.J. Simpson
With the news of O.J. Simpson's death on Thursday, we're revisiting our reporting from 2016,...
How Frederick Douglass launched generations of Black and Irish solidarity
What's a portrait of Frederick Douglass doing hanging in an Irish-themed pub in Washington, D.C.?...
WTF does race have to do with taxes?
It's that time of year again: time to file your taxes. And this week on the pod, we're revisiting...
Who does language belong to? A fight over the Lakota Language
Many Lakota people agree: It's imperative to revitalize the Lakota language. But how exactly to...
Getting let down by the 'Great Expectations' of electoral politics
This episode is brought to you by our play cousins over at NPR's It's Been A Minute. Brittany...
In the world of medicine, race-based diagnoses are more than skin deep
We've probably said it a hundred times on Code Switch — biological race is not a real thing. So...
This conspiracy theory about eating bugs is also about race
Gene Demby and NPR's Huo Jingnan dive into a conspiracy theory about how "global elites" are...
The musical legacy of Japanese American incarceration
In February of 1942 after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, the U.S. government issued an executive...
Why menthol cigarettes have a chokehold on Black smokers
In the U.S., flavored cigarettes have been banned since 2009, with one glaring exception:...
Before the apps, people used newspapers to find love
To celebrate the history of Black romance, Gene and Parker are joined by reporter Nichole Hill to...
How college footballers led the fight against racism in 1969
It's 1969 at the University of Wyoming, where college football is treated like a second religion....
What it's like to be a Black woman with bipolar disorder
"Three springs ago, I lost the better part of my mind," Naomi Jackson wrote in an essay for...
Taylor Swift and the unbearable whiteness of girlhood
Taylor Swift has become an American icon. With that status, she's often been celebrated as...
A Former Church Girl's Search for a New Spiritual Home
This week's episode is a collaboration with our friends at LAist Studios about finding salvation...
What happens when public housing goes private?
The New York City Housing Authority is the biggest public housing program in the country. But...
The women who masterminded the Montgomery Bus Boycott
When people think back to the Montgomery Bus Boycott, they often remember just the bullet points:...
Everyone wants a piece of Martin Luther King Jr.'s legacy
Martin Luther King Jr. was relatively unpopular when he was assassinated. But the way Americans...
67 years after desegregation, Arkansas schools are in the spotlight again
Classrooms in Arkansas were at the center of school desegregation in the 1950s. Now, with the...
Women of color have always shaped the way Americans eat
For decades, the ingredients, dishes and chefs that are popularized have been filtered through...
Here are our favorite Code Switch episodes from 2023
It's that time of year again, fam, when we look back at the past 12 months and think, "WHOA,...
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