Code Switch

In "Prison City," Wisconsin, white elected officials are representing voting districts made up mostly of prisoners. Thos... Read more

How is it that the party of Lincoln became anathema to black voters? It's a messy story, exemplified in the doomed frien... Read more

Some may think of beauty as frivolous and fun, but on this episode, we're examining a few of the ugly ways that its been... Read more

Black people don't hike? Latinos don't like camping? Asians are afraid of the sun? Adrian and Shereen dig into the stere... Read more

We checked in with authors, poets and great literary minds to see what books they think everyone should read this holida... Read more

Muslims make up a little over one percent of the U.S. population, but they seem to take up an outsized space in the Amer... Read more

Awkward comments. Rude questions. Casual racism. What do you do when it happens in your presence? The mental calculus is... Read more

Today, Americans tend to think of Jewish people as white folks, but it wasn't always that way. On this episode, we dig i... Read more

After a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville spiraled into deadly violence, residents of the Virginia town do some... Read more

Black Republicans are basically unicorns — they might just be the biggest outliers in American two-party politics. So wh... Read more

It's one of the oldest clichés of horror movies: the black guy dies first. But that's not the case in the new film "Get ... Read more

Support for Israel has long been the rare bipartisan position among lawmakers in Washington. But recently, several young... Read more

What is the "Standard American Accent"? Where is it from? And what does it mean if you don't have it? Code Switch goes o... Read more

Shereen and Gene look at "racial imposter syndrome." It's what one listener described as feeling fake, or inauthentic, i... Read more

It's a battle that's endured throughout so much of American history: what gets written into our textbooks. Today we tag ... Read more

For better or worse, classrooms have always been a site where our country's racial issues get worked out — whether its i... Read more

When you have a name like Aparna Nancherla or Maz Jobrani, you get used to people butchering it. These two comedians, wh... Read more

Okay, news cycle: you win. We're talking about blackface. This week, we delve into the hidden history of "blackening up"... Read more

In the first of three conversations about President Barack Obama's racial legacy,Code Switch asks how much race or racis... Read more

Too many young, black men struggle in America's education system. Washington D.C. is trying to do something about it wit... Read more