In the spring of 1921, Black residents of Tulsa, Oklahoma’s Greenwood neighborhood were attacked by a mob of angry white people. More than 300 people …
Listen Up! Where Are You Really From?
If you’re a person of color living in the United States, chances are you’ve been asked more than you care to remember where you’re from …
Listen Up! The Racial Reckoning That Wasn’t
In the wake of several high-profile police killings last summer, support for Black Lives Matter skyrocketed among white Americans. Their new concerns about racism pushed …
Listen Up! Lonnie Bunch And The ‘Museum Of No’
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 …