Code Switch

Olutosin Oduwole was a college student and aspiring hip hop star when he was charged with "attempting to make a terrorist threat." Did public perceptions of rap music play a role? This week we're tagging in our friends at Hidden Brain to tell this story.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

Since 1992, the study known as "The 30 Million Word Gap" has, with unusual power, shaped the way educators, parents and policymakers think about educating poor children. NPR education correspondent Anya Kamenetz joins us to talk about what it gets right, and what it misses.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

We're going on a trip, and we're taking you with us! From the peak of Mount Denali to the beaches of Queens, we're talking camp, suntans and our favorite summer jams.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

Anti-immigrant sentiment is on the rise, and the prospect of mass deportation is in the news. But as much as this seems like a unique moment in history, in many ways, it's history repeating itself.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

Online matchmaking sites are making it easier than ever for couples seeking an arranged marriage to meet. Well...not all couples.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

We have one story of how blackface was alive and well on network television in Colombia until 2015.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

On this episode, the story of one family's struggle to end a toxic cycle of inter-generational trauma from forced assimilation. Getting back to their Native Alaskan cultural traditions is key.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

Last week, the NFL announced a new policy to penalize players who kneel during the national anthem. The announcement drew fresh attention to the century-old tightrope that outspoken black athletes — from Floyd Patterson to Rose Robinson to Colin Kaepernick – have had to walk in order to compete and live by their principles.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

Hispanos have lived side by side the Pueblo people for centuries—mixing cultures, identities and even bloodlines. But recently, tensions have risen among the two populations over Santa Fe's annual conquistador pageant, known as La Entrada, which celebrates the arrival of the Spanish.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

Black-and-gray tattoos have become increasingly popular over the last four decades. But many people don't realize that the style has its roots in Chicano art, Catholic imagery and "prison ingenuity." (Yes, they were called Prison-Style tattoos for a reason.) Freddy Negrete, a pioneer in the industry, started tattooing fellow inmates in the early 1970s. And while he's no longer tatting people up with guitar strings and ballpoint pens, he's still using some of the same techniques he mastered back in the day.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

Mother's Day is coming up, so we're taking on your most difficult questions around parenting. We'll talk about choosing a school, raising bilingual children, modeling gender identity, and what to do if your kid's afraid of black people.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

We've said it before: The U.S. Census is way more than cold, hard data. It informs what we call ourselves and how we're represented. On this episode, we explore the controversial citizenship question that the Trump administration added to the 2020 census. We also talk about how the U.S. Census helped create the 'Hispanic' label.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

Muslims make up a little over one percent of the U.S. population, but they seem to take up an outsized space in the American imagination. On this episode we explore why that is.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

Today, Americans tend to think of Jewish people as white folks, but it wasn't always that way. On this episode, we dig into the complex role Jewish identity has played in America's racial story — especially now, when anti-Semitism is on the rise.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

It's the force that animates so much of what we cover on Code Switch. And on the 50th anniversary of the Fair Housing Act, we take a look at some ways residential segregation is still shaping the ways we live. We head to a border with an ironic name , before dropping in on a movement to remap parts of the South.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

Fifty years ago, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was shot and killed in Memphis, Tenn. This week, we have two stories about the aftermath of his death. The first takes us to Memphis to remember King's final days. The second brings us to Oakland, Calif., where King's assassination "transformed the position of the Black Panther Party overnight."Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

People are constantly telling Amara La Negra that she doesn't fit anywhere. Sometimes, she's "too black to be Latina." Other times, she's "too Latina to be black." But Amara says afro-Latinas aren't rare and they're no cause for confusion — they're just in dire need of more representation.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

The NCAA men's basketball tournament is going on right now and will bring in hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue. The coaches and commissioners who benefit are overwhelmingly white. The players on the court are MOSTLY black. So what, if anything, are those players owed?Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

"Shouldn't you help out your own community first?" That's the question we're exploring this week via our play-cousins at Latino USA. A black celebrity is criticized for helping a Latino immigrant. On this episode, that celebrity makes his case.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

In February 2017, Srinivas Kutchibhotla fell victim to an alleged hate crime. In the aftermath, his widow, Sunayana Dumala, had her life and her immigration status thrown into question. Now, she's trying to figure out what it means to stay — and find community — in the small Kansas town where her husband was killed.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy