A decade ago, NPR released the first episode of the Code Switch podcast. The episode's title: "Can we talk about whiteness?" ...

After more than a week of violence and racial tension sparked by the deaths of black men at the hands of police and the shooting deaths of five officers in Dallas, we're getting more perspective from ...

Kring-Schreifels is a contributor for TIME. Society In the spring of 2020, in the aftermath of the killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Ahmaud Arbery, co-hosts Shereen Marisol Meraji and Gene ...

Award-winning journalist Lori Lizarraga is a co-host of NPR's Code Switch, the preeminent podcast about race and identity in America. Before joining NPR, she reported across the country in Texas, ...

Gene Demby is a founding member of NPRs Code Switch team, where he serves as a host of the show's podcast. In 2020, Code Switch was named Apple's inaugural Podcast Of The Year. Demby's essays for Code ...

NPR's Code Switch podcast looks at race and identity in America. In this episode, NPR's Shereen Marisol Meraji and Gene Demby talk about... Code Switch: Transracial Adoptees On Their Racial Identity ...

The new ESPN documentary O.J.: Made In America examines how O.J. Simpson distanced himself from black life in America — and how that same... On The Code Switch Podcast: 'I'm Not Black, I'm O.J.!' One ...

Alec Baldwin, NPR’s B.A. Parker and Malcolm Gladwell (Images Credit: Getty Images) On Air Fest, one of the podcast industry’s top festivals, has added actor Alec Baldwin, Malcolm Gladwell, and NPR’s ...

For many people of color living in the United States, code-switching has become an automated survival tool, something so ingrained in daily life that it often goes unnoticed. While the term ...

May 9, 2026 • The passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act marked what many historians mark as the actual beginning of democracy ...