Ten years ago, NPR dropped the first episode of Code Switch

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

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 ...
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Ask Code Switch: Do bike lanes cause gentrification?

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, ...
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You can't outrun voters' feelings about the economy

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 ...
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Code Switch: Transracial Adoptees On Their Racial Identity And Sense Of Self

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 ...
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On The Code Switch Podcast: 'I'm Not Black, I'm O.J.!'

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 ...
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Shereen Marisol Meraji on Why She Was Able to Be Authentically Herself on NPR's "Code Switch"

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 ...

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