The Blacksonian — er, the National Museum of African American History and Culture — was years and years in the making. It’s closed down because …
Listen Up! Screams And Silence
Asian American organizers and influencers have been trying to sound the alarm over a dramatic spike in reports of anti-Asian racism over the last year, …
Listen Up! Why Are We Here?
Filipinos make up a small fraction of the nurses in the United States, but almost a third of the nurses who have died of COVID-19 …
Listen Up! Spit A Verse, Drop Some Knowledge
We’ve spent the past year trying to analyze, dissect and intellectualize all the ways that our world has changed. But sometimes the best way to …
Listen Up! Do The Golden Arches Bend Toward Justice?
Calls for racial justice are met with a lot of different proposals, but one of the loudest and most enduring is to invest in Black …
Listen Up! A Utopia For Black Capitalism
Floyd McKissick, one of the major leaders of the civil rights movement, had an audacious, lifelong dream. He wanted to build a city — from …
Listen Up! Live From Philly*: A Code Switch Jawn
OK, so we weren’t really in Philly (it’s still a pandemic, after all.) But we did talk all things race and Philadelphia with special guests …
Listen Up! Show Me The Money
Two friends living in Vermont decided to try a radical experiment: They asked White people in their community to give money directly to their Black …
Listen Up! The Kid Mero Talks ‘What It Means To Be Latino’
We’ve said it multiple times on the show: Latinos are the second largest demographic in the United States. But…what does that actually mean? Are Latinos …
Listen Up! The Sum Of Our Parts
People of color have a diverse set of interests, experiences, backgrounds and cultures. And the way we experience race and racism can be really different. …