Our play cousins at NPR’s It’s Been a Minute podcast reexamine the so-called “Latin explosion” of the late ’90s: What it was supposed to be …
Listen Up! What Is ‘Latin Music’ Anyway?
The term ‘Latin Music’ can encompass everything from Celia Cruz to Bad Bunny to Selena Gomez to Los Tigres del Norte. It’s rock, pop, hip …
Listen Up! A Glimpse At ‘How The Other Half Eats’
How do race and class affect the way we eat? What makes dollar store junk food different from organic junk food? And when did Whole …
Listen Up! Imagining A World Without Prisons Or Police
When Derecka Purnell was growing up, the police were a regular presence in her life. Years later, the lawyer, activist, and author of the new …
Listen Up! Ask Code Switch: Thought For Food
It’s Thanksgiving week, so we’re bringing you a second helping of one of our favorite episodes, where we answer your questions about race and food. …
Listen Up! ‘The Characters Are The Light’
You already know we love books here on Code Switch — and given that we’re smack dab in the middle of Native American Heritage month, …
Listen Up! ‘Being Fly Is An Act Of Community’
When ‘Soul Train’ first aired in 1971, there had never been a show like it. Fifty years later, that’s still true. So this week, we’re …
Listen Up! Love And Blood Quantum
If you’re Native American, there’s a good chance that you’ve thought a lot about blood quantum — a highly controversial measurement of the amount of …
Listen Up! Ask Code Switch: Parents Just Don’t Understand
Or do they? This week, we’re answering some of your toughest questions about race and your parents. How do you create boundaries with immigrant parents? …
Listen Up! Painting By Numbers
The 2020 census data is finally here! At first glance, it paints a surprising portrait of a changing United States: The number of people who …