The 10 Best Code Switch Podcast Episodes
1) A Decade Of Watching Black People Die
The last few weeks have been filled with devastating news — stories about the police killing black people. At this point, these calamities feel familiar — so familiar, in fact, that their details have...Show More
2) Is It Time To Say R.I.P. To 'POC'?
Critiques of the initialism — and the popularization of the term "BIPOC" — caused us to ask: Should we retire POC? Or is there use in it yet?
3) E Ola Ka 'Olelo Hawai'i
Every two weeks a language dies with its last speaker. That was the fate of Hawaiian, until a group of second-language learners put up a fight and declared, "E Ola Ka 'Olelo Hawai'i" (The Hawaiian Lan...Show More
4) Black Like Who?
Black identity is central to the question of reparations — and the difficulty of defining blackness becomes even more salient when there's money at stake.
5) A Strange And Bitter Crop
Eighty-five years ago, a crowd of several thousand white people gathered in Jackson County, Florida, to participate in the lynching of a man named Claude Neal. The poet L. Lamar Wilson grew up there, ...Show More
6) How Jewish Communities Are Divided Over Support of Israel
In the wake of October 7, and the bombardment of Gaza by the Israeli government, many American Jews have found themselves questioning something that had long felt like a given: that if you were Jewish...Show More
How Jewish Communities Are Divided Over Support of Israel
41:02 | Apr 24th, 2024
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7) We Aren't Who We Think We Are
Every family has a myth about who they are and where they came from. And there are a lot of reasons people tell these stories. Sometimes it's to make your family seem like they were part of an importa...Show More
8) Everyone wants a piece of Martin Luther King Jr.'s legacy
Martin Luther King Jr. was relatively unpopular when he was assassinated. But the way Americans of all political stripes invoke his memory today, you'd think he was held up as a hero. In this episode,...Show More
9) Pretty Hurts
Some may think of beauty as frivolous and fun, but on this episode, we're examining a few of the ugly ways that its been used to project power.
10) Fighting back on book bans
B.A. Parker brings us around the country to see what access for books is looking like for students in Texas, librarians in Idaho and her own high school English teacher in Pennsylvania.Learn more abou...Show More