What topics does Code Switch cover?

Code Switch covers topics including: society, culture.

Code Switch

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What's CODE SWITCH? It's the fearless conversations about race that you've been waiting for. Hosted by journalists of color, our podcast tackles the subject of race with empathy and humor. We explore how race affects every part of society — from politics and pop culture to history, food and everything in between. This podcast makes all of us part of the conversation — because we're all part of the story. Code Switch was named Apple Podcasts' first-ever Show of the Year in 2020.Want to level up y...

Episodes (605)

Unpacking the Trump administration's immigration raid in Chicago

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Racist slurs, naughty words, and how dictionary editors define them

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What does Israel mean to American Jews?

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Stacey Abrams on how voter suppression threatens democracy

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Oct 11, 202515:05pending

Voting rights are at risk. Here's why.

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Why Malala Yousafzai is a hero in the West but not back home

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Is the American dream a scam?

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The stakes of calling Israel's actions in Gaza a genocide

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How calls for mass deportations went mainstream

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Digging into our ancestors' drama

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Sep 3, 202541:23pending

How racism kept Americans out of pools

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How Trump's D.C. takeover criminalizes homelessness

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Aug 20, 202539:27pending

Statelessness, but make it funny

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Aug 13, 202530:42pending

Hot weather kills. Who gets protected?

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Aug 5, 202532:00pending

You told us — what brings you joy

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Aug 2, 202516:53pending

Is joy an act of resistance?

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Jul 30, 202536:38pending

Protests are near constant. Do they work?

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Jul 23, 202530:35pending

Congress has voted to eliminate government funding for public media

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The books, movies and music that shaped the Code Switch team

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From gr*pists to nip nops, how self-censorship shapes the language of TikTok

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Jul 9, 202533:58pending

The lighter side of immigration: A day at the park in Queens

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Jul 2, 202538:18pending

Dispatches from the living memory of trans people of color

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Jun 25, 202539:00pending

Iranian American identity was under scrutiny long before the U.S. struck Iran

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Jun 23, 202532:15pending

The administration's fight against antisemitism is dividing Jews

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Jun 18, 202537:51pending

How the news makes us think we need more cops

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Jun 11, 202529:19pending

What Trump's fixation on 'white genocide' in South Africa tells us about the U.S...

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Why tacos are as 'American' as apple pie

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May 28, 202531:46pending

How race science shows up at the doctor's office

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May 21, 202535:17pending

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

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May 14, 202528:18pending

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

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May 7, 202536:20pending

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

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Apr 30, 202531:30pending

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

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Revisiting the fight over the Lakota language as Trump targets "divisive narrati...

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Why Trump is sending Venezuelans to El Salvador

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Apr 9, 202537:49pending

What's lost in Trump's DEI ban?

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Apr 2, 202532:07pending

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

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Mar 26, 202529:51pending

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

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Mar 19, 202536:30pending

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

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Mar 12, 202532:26pending

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

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Mar 5, 202531:48pending

Black audiences see themselves centered in a brand new soap opera

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Feb 26, 202536:20pending

The NFL's concussion problem beyond CTE

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Feb 24, 202522:56pending

What a Black enclave lost in the Los Angeles wildfires

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Feb 19, 202530:35pending

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

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Untangling the history of Black rights on Native land

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Feb 12, 202533:14pending

What football tells us about race, labor and power

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Feb 10, 202516:04pending

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

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Feb 5, 202534:45pending

B.A. Parker is learning the banjo

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Jan 29, 202530:53pending

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

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Jan 22, 202530:43pending

Why laughing while crying is so Korean

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"The police are our friends"?

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