Bonus Episode: 'Between Friends' From WNYC
A text message gone wrong. A bachelorette party exclusion. A racist comment during the 2016 debates. When our friends at WNYC's Death, Sex and Money asked about the moments when race became a flashpoi...
23 Jan 202046min
Ask Code Switch: What About Your Friends?
We help our listeners understand how race and its evil play cousin, racism, affect our friendships. And we're doing it with help from WNYC's Death, Sex & Money podcast. Be a good friend and listen.To ...
22 Jan 202049min
Is The Door To Iran Closed Forever?
In light of all the news coming out of Iran, we're talking with Jason Rezaian — an Iranian-American author and journalist who has experienced Iran's contradictions up close.To manage podcast ad prefer...
15 Jan 202030min
Carmen Maria Machado Takes Us 'In The Dream House'
When Carmen Maria Machado started searching for stories about intimate partner violence in queer relationships, there wasn't much out there. But in her new memoir, she says that type of abuse can stil...
8 Jan 202027min
Beautiful Lies
So many people's New Year's resolutions are centered around getting in shape, updating their skincare routine, and generally being more attractive. But beauty ideals have a funny way of reinforcing so...
1 Jan 202046min
The Birth Of A 'New Negro'
Can travel change your identity? It certainly did for one man. Alain Locke, nicknamed the 'Dean of the Harlem Renaissance,' traveled back and forth between Washington, D.C. and Berlin, Germany. In doi...
25 Dec 201936min
Who Shot Ya?
The shootings of the Notorious B.I.G. and Tupac Shakur in the late 1990s are widely thought to be connected, but have never been officially solved. On the latest season of the Slow Burn podcast, Joel ...
18 Dec 201944min
The Martha's Vineyard migrant flight has echoes of a dark past: Reverse Freedom Rides
Many people have heard of the Freedom Rides of 1961, when civil rights activists rode buses through the South to protest segregation. But most people have never heard of what happened the very next su...
11 Dec 201939min
