Weshoyot Alvitre for NPR Code Switch A Treacherous Choice And A Treaty Right by Jess Kung , Shereen Marisol Meraji April 8, 2020 The Principal Chief of Cherokee Nation told his people to stay strong during this pandemic, and to remember how much they've endured over a long history that includes the Trail of Tears. This episode takes a look at the treaty, signed almost 200 years ago, that caused that suffering, and how it's being used now as a call to action. A Treacherous Choice And A Treaty Right Listen · 31:30 31:30 Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/824647676/829423895" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
A Treacherous Choice And A Treaty Right Listen · 31:30 31:30 Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/824647676/829423895" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
Dani Pendergast for NPR Word Watch When The 'Hustle' Isn't Enough by Isabella Rosario April 3, 2020 "Hustle" is just one of many buzzwords in a culture obsessed with productivity. But before the gig economy, hustling was tied up in both stereotypes and realities of working as a black person.
Chelsea Beck/NPR Code Switch Who Counts In 2020? by Karen Grigsby Bates April 1, 2020 Right now, the U.S. Census Bureau is trying to count every single person living in the country. It's a complex undertaking with enormous stakes. But some people are very afraid of how that information will be used by the government — especially given how it's been misused in the past. The first in our series about who counts in 2020. Who Counts In 2020? 38:48 Toggle more options Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/824922461/825054661" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
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Therrious Davis for NPR Code Switch Who Are We? We're Finding Out Together by Natalie Escobar , Leah Donnella March 31, 2020 Once a decade, every household in the United States is required by law to fill out the U.S. census. For many people, most of the questions seem pretty straightforward ... except when it comes to race.
Shanee Benjamin for NPR Code Switch The Very Best Of Code Switch, In 8 Episodes by Isabella Rosario , Dianne Lugo March 26, 2020 What's Code Switch? It's fearless conversations about race that you've been waiting for! Here's a playlist of our favorite episodes of the podcast.
Matthew Jordan Smith/Courtesy of Penguin Random House Code Switch Sex, Friendship And Aging: 'It's Not All Downhill From Here' by Karen Grigsby Bates March 25, 2020 This week, senior correspondent Karen Grigsby Bates talks with the best-selling author Terry McMillan, famous for her novels Waiting to Exhale and How Stella Got Her Groove Back. The two longtime friends chat about McMillan's latest novel, It's Not All Downhill From Here, and the topics the book tackles: aging, friendship, race and sex. Sex, Friendship And Aging: 'It's Not All Downhill From Here' Listen · 22:36 22:36 Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/820775968/821229731" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
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People of Japanese descent wait in line for their assigned homes at an internment camp reception center in Manzanar, Calif., the same camp in which John Tateishi was detained as a child. AP hide caption toggle caption AP Code Switch The Unlikely Story Behind Japanese Americans' Campaign For Reparations by Isabella Rosario March 24, 2020 In his new book Redress: The Inside Story of the Successful Campaign for Japanese American Reparations, John Tateishi recounts the fight for justice in the wake of World War II internment camps.
Piero F Giunti/Latino USA Code Switch The All-Women Mariachi Group That's Lifting Our Spirits by Shereen Marisol Meraji , Jeanne Montalvo March 18, 2020 With all this pandemic anxiety swirling, we thought you might need some music to take your mind off things. So this week, we've got an episode from our friends over at Latino USA. It's about Flor de Toloache, an all-women mariachi group that's making history by bucking tradition and playing a style of music that's usually performed by men. The All-Women Mariachi Group That's Lifting Our Spirits Listen · 17:58 17:58 Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/817316400/817456976" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
The All-Women Mariachi Group That's Lifting Our Spirits Listen · 17:58 17:58 Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/817316400/817456976" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
Bad Bunny performs onstage during Calibash 2018 in Los Angeles, California. Kevin Winter/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Kevin Winter/Getty Images Code Switch The Classist History Behind Bad Bunny's 'Bichiyal' by Frances Solá-Santiago March 17, 2020 When Bad Bunny released YHLQMDLG, he coined a new term: "bichiyal." It fuses two Puerto Rican slang words—"bicha" and "yal"—and illustrates reggaeton's complicated relationship with class and women.
Sara Ariel Wong Code Switch The Limits Of Empathy by Gene Demby , Natalie Escobar , Sarah Kate Kramer March 11, 2020 In matters of race and justice, empathy is often held up as a goal unto itself. But what comes after understanding? In this episode, we're teaming up with Radio Diaries to look at the career of a white writer who put herself in someone else's skin — by disguising herself as a black woman — to find out what she learned, and what she couldn't. The Limits Of Empathy Listen · 36:41 36:41 Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/812864654/814294160" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
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LA Johnson Code Switch When Xenophobia Spreads Like A Virus by Natalie Escobar March 4, 2020 As international health agencies warn that COVID-19 could become a pandemic, fears over the new coronavirus' spread have activated old, racist suspicions toward Asians and Asian Americans. It's part of a longer history in the United States, in which xenophobia has often been camouflaged as a concern for public health and hygiene. When Xenophobia Spreads Like A Virus Listen · 25:16 25:16 Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/811363404/811927113" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
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Lela Mae Williams and seven of her nine children on arrival in Hyannis. Frank C. Curtin/AP hide caption toggle caption Frank C. Curtin/AP Code Switch The Cruel Story Behind The 'Reverse Freedom Rides' WGBH Radio by Gabrielle Emanuel February 29, 2020 Southern segregationists resented the Freedom Riders who came by bus to protest Jim Crow laws. So in 1962, they tricked black Southerners into migrating north and transformed families' lives forever. The Cruel Story Behind The 'Reverse Freedom Rides' Listen · 43:00 43:00 Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/809740346/810324828" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player">
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The Conestoga stand and face their final moments. Weshoyot Alvitre/Library Company of Philadelphia hide caption toggle caption Weshoyot Alvitre/Library Company of Philadelphia Code Switch How A Graphic Novel Resurrected A Forgotten Chapter In American History by Jess Kung February 26, 2020 In Ghost River: The Fall and Rise of the Conestoga, Native artists retell the events of a brutal massacre in pre-Revolutionary Pennsylvania and bring a painful history to life on the page.
Barbara Elaine Smith, better known as B. Smith, began her career as a model, going on to be a restaurateur, celebrity chef, author, entertainer and lifestyle doyenne. bsmith.com hide caption toggle caption bsmith.com Code Switch B. Smith, Restaurateur And Lifestyle Icon, Dies At 70 Of Early Onset Alzheimer's by Karen Grigsby Bates February 24, 2020 Born Barbara Elaine Smith, she began her career as a model and went on to gain fame and influence as a restaurateur, celebrity chef, lifestyle doyenne and entertainer. B. Smith, Restaurateur And Lifestyle Icon, Dies At 70 Of Early Onset Alzheimer's Listen · 3:37 3:37 Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/808760806/808786971" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
B. Smith, Restaurateur And Lifestyle Icon, Dies At 70 Of Early Onset Alzheimer's Listen · 3:37 3:37 Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/808760806/808786971" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
Courtesy of the 2050 Group Code Switch When Bias Is Coded Into Our Technology by Jennifer 8. Lee February 8, 2020 Facial recognition systems from large tech companies often misidentify black women as male — including the likes of Michelle Obama and Serena Williams. A new documentary, "Coded Bias" unpacks why.
Dion MBD for NPR Code Switch When McDonald's Was A Road To Black Liberation by Gene Demby February 4, 2020 The historian Marcia Chatelain's new book, Franchise, outlines a forgotten history of McDonald's as a site of social protest and a mechanism black entrepreneurs hoped might spur black liberation.
We've got all the content you need for Black History Month. Aurélia Durand hide caption toggle caption Aurélia Durand Code Switch A Code Switch Playlist For Black History Month by Dianne Lugo , Isabella Rosario February 1, 2020 Black History Month is here, and it's the perfect time to catch up on stories about the hidden heroes and buried history of black America.
Robyn Crawford shares her story as Whitney Houston's closest friend in her new memoir A Song For You: My Life With Whitney Houston. Marc Hom/Penguin Random House hide caption toggle caption Marc Hom/Penguin Random House Code Switch A New Memoir Talks 'Riding Shotgun' With Whitney Houston by Kumari Devarajan January 31, 2020 From the day they met as teenagers, Robyn Crawford was by Whitney Houston's side. In her new memoir A Song For You: My Life With Whitney Houston, Crawford speaks in depth about their long friendship.
Cover of the upcoming book How to Be Fine. Courtesy of Kristen Meinzer hide caption toggle caption Courtesy of Kristen Meinzer Code Switch The Not-So-Life-Changing Magic Of Self-Help Books by Shereen Marisol Meraji January 30, 2020 Are self-help books actually helpful? That's the question Kristen Meinzer sought to answer in her upcoming book, How to Be Fine: What We Learned From Living by the Rules Of 50 Self-Help Books.
Author Susan Straight with her three daughters. Cassandra Barragan hide caption toggle caption Cassandra Barragan Code Switch Author Susan Straight Takes Us 'In The Country Of Women' by Karen Grigsby Bates January 29, 2020 In her new memoir, Straight tells the story of the women in her family—her Swiss-German blood relatives and her African American, Indigenous and Creole in-laws who crossed the U.S. to settle in Calif.
Henry Holt and Co. The Code Switch Podcast YA Fantasy Where The Oppression Is Real by Leah Donnella January 28, 2020 Tomi Adeyemi's new book, Children of Virtue and Vengeance, is fantasy for young adults. But the issues it's dealing with — racism, oppression and war — are very real. And they're not sugarcoated.
Kim Salt for NPR Code Switch How 'Namaste' Flew Away From Us by Kumari Devarajan January 17, 2020 "Namaste" has a meaning among Hindi speakers. But in the U.S., the word has been wrangled out of its context and tossed around to mean whatever people want it to.