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 ...
9 Nov 202248min
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 histo...
2 Nov 202234min
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 te...
26 Okt 202224min
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 ...
19 Okt 202233min
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....
12 Okt 202229min
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 havin...
5 Okt 202229min
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 wor...
28 Sep 202234min
In 1962, segregationists set up "Reverse Freedom Rides"
Recently, Republican governors have been sending migrants from the southern border to cities they deem more liberal under false pretenses. The political stunt echoes what segregationists 1962 called R...
21 Sep 202239min
