Leah Donnella
This week on “Ask Code Switch,” we’re talking about who gets to define beauty norms — and what it means to push back on them.
The phrase is meant as a gentle poke at white people who take offense at minor threats to their privilege. “Sometimes it feels good just to make fun of racism and of racists,” one humorist says.
A lot has changed in the U.S. over two centuries. One thing that hasn’t? How we talk about poor white people.
Our Word Watch series explores the term “white trash.” Some people embrace it. But experts say it demeans both the people it’s applied to and people of color.
There are lots of misconceptions about dark skin and sunshine. One of the most common? That black people can’t get skin cancer.
We got more than 100 letters from our listeners about how y’all feel like fakes. Here are some of our favorites.
This week on Ask Code Switch, a question from a Florida high school student who wants to know how to fight against injustice without antagonizing his teachers.
To many, being “brown” is about a set of shared experiences that include things like being subjected to discrimination and stereotyping. But there’s some history here.
Scared, fine. Frightened, sure. But spooked? This week, we dive into the racial history behind one of Halloween’s most fraught descriptors.
Indian Country Today Media Network announced it would “cease active operations.” That leaves a big hole in news coverage by, and about, Native Americans.
NPR’s Mary Louise Kelly talked to Mélisande Short-Colomb, whose family was once enslaved by Georgetown University. Now, at 63, Short-Colomb has enrolled as a freshman there.
What happens when a “Miller” becomes a “Martinez”? This week, we offer advice for a woman whose boyfriend is worried about unconscious bias affecting their marriage.
“Academic racists” lay the intellectual groundwork for white supremacy. The effect, says one expert, is making racist tropes more palatable, including to members of the political mainstream.
As we light a candle on the Code Switch podcast’s birthday cake, our team looks back on the stories that mattered.
We got more than 100 letters from our listeners about how y’all feel like fakes. Here are some of our favorites.
Discussions of a border wall happen at the intersection of environmental and civil rights.
Many say the Dakota Access Pipeline resistance is beyond anything they’ve experienced before. But there are preludes in Native American history, and you don’t have to look too far back to find them.
Latino colleagues from across NPR shared their family stories for Hispanic Heritage Month, exposing a rich array of experiences: loss, longing, contradiction and triumph.