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Code Switch
What's CODE SWITCH? It's the fearless conversations about race that you've been waiting for. Hosted by journalists of color, our podcast tackles the subject of race with empathy and humor. We explore how race affects every part of society — from politics and pop culture to history, food and everythi...
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The evolution of blackface in the age of AI
With AI image and video generators, it's become easier than ever to create hyper-realistic clips of almost anything. Today, we're looking at the lands...
In the Trump era, has the word 'racist' lost its meaning?
Over the past few weeks, President Trump has amplified derogatory and stereotypical comments about people from Afghanistan. He's derided Somalians as...
Remembering disability activist Alice Wong
Alice Wong was a major force in disability activism. She passed away last month at the age of 51. For Here and Now, reporter Elissa Nadworny speaks wi...
How the Trump administration is reshaping immigration
The Trump administration has been firing immigration judges, despite the fact that there’s a massive backlog of immigration cases that need rulings. X...
Gratitude isn’t just for Thanksgiving
For the millions of Americans that celebrate Thanksgiving, it's a time when many people reflect on the things and the people in our lives that they ap...
How poetry helps Ada Limon navigate life, even when it’s tough
As we enter "cozy season," we're revisiting our conversation with Ada Limon, who just wrapped up her tenure as the U.S. Poet Laureate. She talks to us...
Fearing deportation, undocumented parents are preparing to leave their kids behind
Today on the show, NPR immigration reporter Jasmine Garsd introduces us to two families in Washington, D.C.. One has made the difficult decision to se...
How undocumented families are navigating the looming threat of ICE
Today on the show, NPR immigration reporter Jasmine Garsd takes us into the dimly lit living rooms of immigrant families — families trying to figure o...
How Trump's cuts to public media threaten the first Native American station
On October 1, 2025, public radio stations lost all of their federal funding -- and for Black and Native American community stations, the cuts hit hard...
Tribal colleges are a unique resource — and they're under threat
Nueta Hidatsa Sahnish College has classes on everything from Native American studies to gardening to equine sciences to the Hidatsa language. Like oth...
The hidden history of demonizing SNAP recipients
Around 42 million people in the United States get SNAP benefits each month to cover basic needs like eggs, bread, and infant formula. Because of the g...
Freedom of speech has never been for everyone
Fights over free speech have taken up a lot of space in the zeitgeist lately. People on both the left and right claim to be the defenders of free spee...
How Zohran Mamdani is scrambling establishment Democrat's brains
Zohran Mamdani has become one of the most popular and polarizing politicians in the last year. How did the New York City mayoral candidate go from a r...
How Elon Musk and JD Vance plan to 'save civilization' with more babies
What do conservatives like JD Vance and tech executives like Elon Musk have in common? They, like other pronatalists, want to “save civilization” by h...
Unpacking the Trump administration's immigration raid in Chicago
After midnight on September 30th, helicopters hovered above a large Chicago apartment building, and heavily armored agents rappelled from the choppers...
Racist slurs, naughty words, and how dictionary editors define them
How do we define slurs like the N-word? Whether it’s heated debates about racist or ableist slurs, arguments about gender, or even new kinds of profan...
What does Israel mean to American Jews?
Even since before October 7, 2023, American Jews have found themselves grappling with what it means to speak out against Israel and the rifts in their...
Stacey Abrams on how voter suppression threatens democracy
Stacey Abrams is one of the most high-profile voting rights activists in the U.S. She says whether we have an actual democracy might literally depend...
Voting rights are at risk. Here's why.
Next Wednesday, the Supreme Court hears a case that could further weaken the Voting Rights Act, which was passed to ensure fair districting and voting...
Why Malala Yousafzai is a hero in the West but not back home
Why is Malala Yousafzai so revered in the West while being much less popular in her home country of Pakistan? On this week's Code Switch, we unpack ho...
Is the American dream a scam?
This week on the pod: author Edgar Gomez talks about what it was like growing up poor, queer, and Nicaraguan Puerto Rican in Florida. His new memoir,...
The stakes of calling Israel's actions in Gaza a genocide
This week: why the term "genocide" matters when talking about Israel's actions against Palestinians in Gaza. On Tuesday, a UN commission said it found...
How calls for mass deportations went mainstream
Calls to ban “third world immigration” in favor of “remigration” -- or, mass deportation -- went from fringe ideas in far right circles to ones pedale...
Digging into our ancestors' drama
This week, we're bringing you a special episode from our play cousins over at the podcast "Our Ancestors Were Messy." We hear about how Zora Neale Hur...
How racism kept Americans out of pools
This week, we're looking into the history of public swimming pools in the U.S., and the legacy that pool segregation has had on swimming skills in the...
How Trump's D.C. takeover criminalizes homelessness
On August 11, President Trump announced his intention to "rescue" the nation's capital. A central feature of his plan involved using federal officials...
Statelessness, but make it funny
Mo Amer is the creator and star of the hit Netflix comedy series Mo. It's a first-of-its kind Palestinian-American sitcom with a fraught plot line abo...
Hot weather kills. Who gets protected?
The heat disproportionately kills poor, elderly and people of color. So on this episode we're focusing on the lives of those impacted, from roofers in...
You told us — what brings you joy
On this bonus episode of the show, we're hearing from some of YOU about what brings you joy, how you connect joy and justice work, and why joy is so i...
Is joy an act of resistance?
The phrase "joy is resistance" has been popping up all over the place lately. But what, exactly, does it mean? In this episode, we're unpacking what j...
Protests are near constant. Do they work?
To the casual observer, it might seem like the U.S. has been spent years in a constant state of protest, from the Women's March in 2017 to the racial...
Congress has voted to eliminate government funding for public media
Act now to ensure public media remains free and accessible to all. Your donation will help this essential American service survive and thrive. Visit d...
The books, movies and music that shaped the Code Switch team
Once upon a time, members of the Code Switch team were just kids, learning about race and identity for the first time. So on this episode, we're shari...
From gr*pists to nip nops, how self-censorship shapes the language of TikTok
Have you noticed people using terms like "unalive" and
"pew pews" on social media? There's a reason for that: some people are changing the way...
The lighter side of immigration: A day at the park in Queens
This week on Code Switch, we're doing a different kind of immigration coverage. We're telling a New York story: one that celebrates the beautiful, eve...
Dispatches from the living memory of trans people of color
Trans people are major targets of the second Trump administration. But in a way, that's nothing new; trans people have been fighting for their rights,...
Iranian American identity was under scrutiny long before the U.S. struck Iran
We're throwing back to a conversation we had in 2020 with Jason Rezaian, Iranian American journalist who had been previously jailed in Iran. Back in J...
The administration's fight against antisemitism is dividing Jews
In recent months we've seen the Trump administration punishing speech critical of Israel in its widening effort to combat what it sees as antisemitism...
How the news can make us think we need more policing
As President Trump flirts with invoking the Insurrection Act on anti-ICE demonstrators in LA, we look back at the national protests of 2020, when Trum...
What Trump's fixation on 'white genocide' in South Africa tells us about the U.S.
How the false notion of "white genocide" traveled from the political fringes to the Oval Office. The week on Code Switch, we're talking to a reporter...