Code Switch
NPR
NPR's race and culture team tracking how identity shapes labor laws and national politics.
Why we picked this
We picked Code Switch because it treats race not as a niche beat or a periodic news peg, but as the underlying architecture of American life. The journalists behind the show interrogate how identity shapes institutions, labor, and history without relying on academic jargon or easy consensus. Each season builds a durable archive of reporting that explains how we arrived at our current social fractures. Subscribe to the feed for rigorous, clear-eyed reporting that makes daily news legible through a longer historical lens.
Recent episodes
We're Miseducated on Lauryn Hill
Sep 4, 20261h 5m
Freedom from fatness: Why GLP-1s go after Black bodies
Sep 1, 202632 min
Banana Ball's racial minstrelsy past
Aug 28, 202627 min
Unpacking estrangement: Who goes No Contact?
Aug 25, 202633 min
Our Ancestors Were Messy: a Black history comedy show
Aug 21, 20261h 14m
Trump is demanding English — while defunding ESL
Aug 18, 202633 min
Jay-Z has F-you money. Is he saying it to the wrong people?
Aug 14, 202631 min
How farm work became the exception to Trump's border crackdown
Aug 11, 202633 min
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