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<em>Code Switch</em> wants to hear from you.

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What does home mean to you? Code Switch wants to know for our live show

Code Switch wants to include your thoughts in our live show. We need you to send us a voice memo on what home means to you!

October 12, 2022
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  • Christina Cala
A demonstrator waves a marijuana-themed flag in front on the White House. President Biden is pardoning thousands of Americans convicted of "simple possession" of marijuana under federal law.

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  • National

Biden's pot pardon will help reverse War on Drugs harm to Black people, advocates say

Experts hailed the move as an important first step in righting the wrongs from decades of uneven drug enforcement policy.

October 10, 2022
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By:
  • Alana Wise
A screenshot of a portion of the interactive map from Native Land Digital shows which Native territories have inhabited different regions of the Americas, based on a variety of historical and Indigenous sources.

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  • National

Which Indigenous lands are you on? This map will show you

Native Land Digital, a Canadian nonprofit, offers resources for Indigenous and non-Indigenous people to learn more about the land and its history. It hopes its map will be just a part of that journey.

October 10, 2022
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  • Rachel Treisman
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  • Obituaries

Sacheen Littlefeather sacrificed her career to make way for Indigenous voices

Actor and activist Sacheen Littlefeather, best known for declining Marlon Brando's 1973 Oscar to protest Hollywood's treatment of Native Americans, has died at the age of 75.

October 10, 2022
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By:
  • Kelly Moffitt and
  • Zanna McKay
Composer and trumpeter Etienne Charles, in a portrait taken inside the newly renovated David Geffen Hall at Lincoln Center.

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  • Music

Revisiting San Juan Hill, the neighborhood destroyed to make way for Lincoln Center

In New York City, the area dominated by Lincoln Center was formerly home to Black and Puerto Rican communities. Etienne Charles' new musical work addresses that difficult past.

October 07, 2022
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By:
  • Anastasia Tsioulcas
<em>The Great British Bake Off</em> hosts Noel Fielding and Matt Lucas opening the "Mexican Week" episode while wearing sombreros and serapes.

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  • Arts & Life

A new 'Great British Bake Off' episode stereotypes Mexican culture, viewers say

While The Great British Bake Off is beloved by many, the show's latest "Mexican Week" episode has left a sour taste in many viewer's mouths.

October 07, 2022
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By:
  • Pablo Valdivia
Author John Pruitt and his latest novel, Tell It True

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  • Politics

Political Rewind: Author, anchor John Pruitt documents a Klan-involved murder in 'Tell It True'

Friday on Political Rewind: In 1964, two Klansmen killed Lt. Col. Lemuel Penn, a Black veteran, near the Broad River Bridge in Athens. John Pruitt, then a 22-year-old cameraman for WSB-TV, covered the case. He documents that experience in his novel Tell It True.

October 07, 2022
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  • Bill Nigut ,
  • Natalie Mendenhall ,
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  • Movies

Spanish 'Dracula' finds new blood, more than 90 years after its release

In 1931, another cast and crew for the movie Dracula worked overnight, after the star and the English language crew wrapped, to redo the scenes in Spanish. (Story aired on ATC on Sept. 19, 2022.)

October 07, 2022
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  • Mandalit del Barco
A sign marks the main entrance to the campus of Grove City College in Grove City, Pa.

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  • Perspective

PERSPECTIVE: At conservative schools, anti-critical race theory still looms large

On conservative campuses, anti-critical race theory hovers.

October 06, 2022
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  • Sierra Lyons
Justice Department's Civil Rights Division announced a new initiative to combat unlawful acts of hate in the Western District of New York. Here, a memorial for the supermarket shooting victims is set up outside the Tops Friendly Market on Thursday, July 14, 2022, in Buffalo, N.Y.

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  • National

After a deadly mass shooting, the DOJ is launching an anti-hate initiative in Buffalo

The new initiative is a broader effort by the Justice Department that it plans to launch across all 94 United States attorneys' offices over the next year.

October 06, 2022
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By:
  • Jonathan Franklin
A ceremony to dedicate a monument to journalist, educator, and civil rights leader, Ida B. Wells is held on June 30, 2021 in the Bronzeville neighborhood of Chicago. The monument was created by sculptor Richard Hunt.

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  • Economy

How the 'Black Metropolis' made a comeback

Bronzeville, a neighborhood of Chicago, was the epicenter of a Black renaissance before it fell on hard times. Now, it's booming again. Here's the story of its incredible turnaround.

October 05, 2022
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  • Greg Rosalsky
The Blackwell School in Marfa, Texas, pictured in May 2022.

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  • National

Hispanic students were once segregated at this school. Now it will be a historic site

Former students at the Blackwell School in Marfa, Texas, who were once banned from speaking Spanish, have worked for years to preserve the school's history.

October 05, 2022
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  • Travis Bubenik
The U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments in a case involving the Voting Rights Act.

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  • Law

Supreme Court conservatives may strike another blow to landmark Voting Rights Act

At issue in Tuesday's case was Alabama's congressional redistricting plan, adopted by the Republican state legislature after the 2020 Census.

October 04, 2022
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  • Nina Totenberg
Ta'Wan Grant and Lexxus Cherry in the front yard of their home in the Dunbar neighborhood of Fort Myers, Fla., on Sunday.

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  • National

In one Fort Myers neighborhood, Black residents feel forsaken in Ian's aftermath

In historically African American Dunbar, some think that they are being ignored by authorities who are more concerned about helping affluent seaside communities.

October 03, 2022
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  • Scott Neuman
Sacheen Littlefeather on stage at AMPAS Presents An Evening with Sacheen Littlefeather at Academy Museum of Motion Pictures on Sept. 17, 2022 in Los Angeles.

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  • National

Sacheen Littlefeather, who gave Marlon Brando's Oscar rejection speech, dies at 75

In 1973, Littlefeather provided one of the most dramatic moments in Oscar history: Offering Brando's regrets for refusing the award because of Hollywood's treatment and portrayal of Native Americans.

October 03, 2022
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