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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)

How Frederick Douglass launched generations of Black and Irish solidarity

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Apr 10, 202431:57pending

WTF does race have to do with taxes?

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Apr 3, 202430:14pending

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

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Mar 27, 202439:13pending

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

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Mar 20, 202417:43pending

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

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Mar 13, 202433:32pending

This conspiracy theory about eating bugs is also about race

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Mar 6, 202432:50pending

The musical legacy of Japanese American incarceration

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Feb 28, 202430:21pending

Why menthol cigarettes have a chokehold on Black smokers

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Feb 21, 202435:29pending

Before the apps, people used newspapers to find love

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Feb 14, 202437:48pending

How college footballers led the fight against racism in 1969

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Feb 9, 202432:30pending

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

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Feb 7, 202429:18pending

Taylor Swift and the unbearable whiteness of girlhood

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Jan 31, 202435:22pending

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

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Jan 29, 202449:01pending

What happens when public housing goes private?

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Jan 24, 202440:21pending

The women who masterminded the Montgomery Bus Boycott

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Jan 17, 202436:50pending

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

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Jan 10, 202430:45pending

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

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Jan 3, 202435:41pending

Women of color have always shaped the way Americans eat

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Dec 27, 202333:48pending

Here are our favorite Code Switch episodes from 2023

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Dec 20, 202330:47pending

Revisiting 'The Color Purple' wars

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Dec 18, 202347:18pending

This is what "real self-care" looks like

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Dec 13, 202336:41pending

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

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Dec 11, 202318:45pending

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

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Dec 6, 202334:53pending

Can you travel the world — ethically?

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Nov 29, 202331:46pending

A Tale of Two Tribal Nations

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Nov 22, 202351:13pending

Who Has The "Right To A Story?"

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Nov 15, 202335:54pending

How does a computer discriminate?

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Nov 8, 202333:53pending

All The Only Ones: The Missing Piece Of The Puzzle

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Nov 3, 202343:57pending

Looking For My People In The Black Punk Scene

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Nov 1, 202331:45pending

Giving up on identity with Ada Limón

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Oct 25, 202335:19pending

The agony and ecstasy of parenting with Hari Kondabolu

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Oct 18, 202327:43pending

What does it mean to be good?

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Oct 11, 202332:07pending

Student activists are fighting big coal, and winning

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Oct 4, 202338:37pending

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

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Sep 27, 202336:01pending

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

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Sep 20, 202337:19pending

Remembering and unremembering, from Kigali to Nashville

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Sep 13, 202338:51pending

Fall football — or the fall of football?

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Sep 6, 202334:11pending

Bad Bunny, Reggaeton, and Resistance

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Aug 30, 202338:29pending

What Makes A Good Race Joke?

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Aug 23, 202327:09pending

Family, fortune, and the fight for Osage headrights

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Aug 16, 202323:54pending

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

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Aug 9, 202334:23pending

Rolling the dice on race in Dungeons & Dragons

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Aug 2, 202333:26pending

Code Switch's beach reads — no beach required

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Jul 26, 202334:16pending

This Conspiracy Soup Contains Bugs — And Racism

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Jul 19, 202333:07pending

Is "home" still home after 30 years away?

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Jul 12, 202336:44pending

What Happens After A Racist Massacre In Your Neighborhood?

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Jul 5, 202332:47pending

Honoring My Enslaved Ancestors, Part Two

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Jun 28, 202333:40pending

Honoring My Enslaved Ancestors, Part One

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Jun 21, 202333:42pending

Going to a white church in a Black body

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Jun 14, 202338:17pending

Spilling the "T" with comedian D'Lo

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Jun 7, 202330:15pending
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