Fighting back on book bans
B.A. Parker brings us around the country to see what access to books is looking like for students in Texas, librarians in Idaho and her own high school English teacher in Pennsylvania.To manage podcas...
18 Sep 202429min
Ask Code Switch: The racial politics of washing dishes?
This week on Ask Code Switch, we're getting into the politics and power dynamics of race and dishes in the workplace (which is more fraught than you might think). When no one is "technically" the "dis...
16 Sep 202413min
The park. Sunday. Queens, New York.
This week on Code Switch, we're doing a different kind of immigration coverage. We're telling a New York story: one that celebrates the beautiful, everyday life of the immigrant. Code Switch producer,...
11 Sep 202438min
Ask Code Switch: Is this a racist question?
Ask Code Switch is back! Lori Lizarraga and the Code Switch team tackle all new listener questions this fall. From the tacky and tricky to the cringe and candid – we're bringing our race advice to the...
9 Sep 202412min
Going back to school with schizoaffective disorder
Michael Vargas Arango was having a fairly typical day — hanging out at his home in Medellín, playing Xbox with one of his friends. Only, when he spoke to his mom during the day, he realized that she h...
4 Sep 202430min
What James Baldwin can teach us about Israel, and ourselves
It's been more than ten months since devastating violence began unfolding in Israel and Gaza. And in the midst of all the death, so many people are trying to better understand what's going on in that ...
28 Aug 202439min
Black praise in white pews: When your church doesn't love you back
How do you participate in a faith practice that has a rough track record with racism? That's what our play-cousin J.C. Howard gets into in this week's episode of Code Switch. He talks to us about Blac...
21 Aug 202438min
Race, Romance and Reality TV
Reality TV has been referred to as a funhouse mirror of our culture. But even with its distortions, it can reflect back to us what we accept as a society – especially when it comes to things like gend...
14 Aug 202433min
