'Wherever you go, there you are'
Many immigrants have described the feeling of being different people in different places. Maybe in one country, you're a little goofy, a little wild. In another, you're more serious — more of a planne...
6 Jul 202256min
School Colors Episode 8: "The Only Way Out"
When the District 28 diversity planning process came around, many Chinese parents had already been activated a year earlier by the fight to defend the Specialized High School Admissions Test.In this e...
1 Jul 20221h
No Man's Land
Tens of thousands of children were adopted from other countries by parents in the U.S., only to discover as adults a quirk in federal law that meant they had never been guaranteed American citizenship...
29 Jun 202234min
School Colors Episode 7: "The Sleeping Giant"
In some ways, this entire season was prompted by the parents who organized against diversity planning in School District 28. So in this episode, we're going back to that one ugly meeting, where they u...
24 Jun 202259min
On Food, Mattress Sales, and Juneteenth
It's the second year that Juneteenth has been a federal holiday — which means it's getting the full summer holiday treatment: sales on appliances, branded merchandise, and for some, a day off of work....
19 Jun 202232min
School Colors Episode 6: "Below Liberty"
Though a lot of parents and educators agree there needs to be some change in District 28, the question remains: what kind of change? When we asked around, more diversity wasn't necessarily at the top ...
17 Jun 202255min
The impact of COVID-19, a million deaths in
A new book by Linda Villarosa looks at how racial bias in healthcare has costs for all Americans. Spoiler: Poverty counts — but not as much as you'd think. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about ou...
15 Jun 202228min
Spilling the T
Code Switch's Kumari Devarajan found an unlikely demographic doppelganger in D'Lo, a comedian and playwright whose one-person show about growing up as a queer child of immigrants in the U.S. is reopen...
8 Jun 202230min
