Code Switch
NPR
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 everything in between. This podcast makes all of us part of the conversation — because we're all part of the story. Code Switch was named Apple Podcasts' first-ever Show of the Year in 2020.Want to level up your Code Switch game? Try Code Switch Plus. Your subscription supports the show and unlocks a sponsor-free feed. Learn more at plus.npr.org/codeswitch
Episodes
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Nov 30, 2022 • 30min
Notes from America: 'Blackness (Un)interrupted'
So many of our perceptions of race have to do with color. How does that change if you've lived in both Black and white skin? Our Executive Producer Veralyn Williams, explores this question in conversation with her sister, Lovis. Lovis has vitiligo, a skin disease that causes loss of skin color in patches.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy
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Nov 23, 2022 • 34min
A lost bird, a found treasure
Bear Carrillo grew up knowing only a few details about his birth parents: when he was born they were university students, the first from their tribes to go to college, and they just couldn't afford to keep him. Decades later, a DNA test kit uncovers a new story.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy
Nov 16, 2022 • 50min
Live from Chicago: What makes a city home?
This episode is excerpted from the Code Switch Live show at the Studebaker Theater in Chicago, featuring special guests José Olivarez, Sultan Salahuddin, Diallo Riddle and Adriana Cardona-Maguidad to talk all about Chicago. Musical guest KAINA provides music!Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy
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Nov 9, 2022 • 48min
Throughline: How Korean culture went global
From BTS to Squid Game to high-end beauty standards, South Korea reigns as a global exporter of pop culture and entertainment. How does a country go from a war-decimated state just 70 years ago, to a major driver of global soft power? Through war, occupation, economic crisis, and national strategy, comes a global phenomenon - the Korean wave. This is an episode from our play cousins Throughline and originally aired September 8th, 2022.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy
Nov 2, 2022 • 34min
Code Switch fam! Say hello to It's Been a Minute's new host, Brittany Luse!
Code Switch's host B.A. Parker, introduces us to our play cousin It's Been a Minute's new voice, Brittany Luse! In Brittany's first two episodes she talks about the representation and contextual history of Black women in politics and Hollywood. You can follow us on Twitter and Instagram @NPRCodeSwitch, Parker @aparkusfarce, and the new host of It's Been A Minute Brittany Luse @BMLuse!Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy
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Oct 26, 2022 • 25min
Fear In An Age Of Real Life Horror, Revisited
It's that time of year again: celebrations of the macabre hit a little too close to home and brush up against our country's very dark past. We talk about navigating fake horror amid what's actually terrifying and how scaring ourselves, on purpose, can help us. This episode first ran in October 2019.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy
Oct 19, 2022 • 34min
Skeletons in the closet, revisited
More than 10,000 Native human remains are currently sitting in a storage facility in a Maryland suburb. This week, how one small tribe is fighting to get them back to Florida. This episode originally aired October 13, 2021.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy
Oct 12, 2022 • 29min
Black reality in a world of fantasy
Why build a fantasy world that still has racism? B.A. Parker moderates a discussion on Black science fiction and fantasy with authors Tochi Onyebuchi and Leslye Penelope at the National Book Festival.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy
Oct 5, 2022 • 29min
Omar Apollo on making music, being queer and Latinx
NPR's Alt.Latino gets a reboot, and for its first episode, they speak with R&B darling Omar Apollo. Apollo shares what it's been like being a role model for queer Latinx kids and the pressure of having to watch what he says now that he's famous.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy
Sep 28, 2022 • 34min
Gaming out race in Dungeons & Dragons
Dungeons & Dragons is one of the most popular tabletop role-playing games of all time. But it has also helped cement some ideas about how we create and define race in fantasy — and in the tangible world. We take a deep dive into that game, and what we find about racial stereotypes and colonialist supremacy is illuminating.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy
