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News Articles: Series: Code Switch: Perspectives

An empty elementary school classroom is seen on Tuesday, Aug. 17, 2021 in the Bronx borough of New York. Nationwide, students have been absent at record rates since schools reopened after COVID-forced closures. More than a quarter of students missed at least 10% of the 2021-22 school year.

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  • Race

If you see something (woke), say something

Code Switch's Gene Demby looks into the Department of Education's new end-DEI portal that asks Americans to narc on their local public schools.

March 07, 2025
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  • Gene Demby

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  • Perspective

The revolution will be screenshot (hopefully)

Code Switch's B.A. Parker takes a look at the many ways our digital world is being erased.

February 14, 2025
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  • B.A. Parker
The NFL is removing the "End Racism" message from their end zones. Above, the Kansas City Chiefs' field in September 2020.

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The NFL is removing 'End Racism' from its Super Bowl end zone

Here's what the decision by America's favorite sports league tells us about "anticipatory obedience."

February 08, 2025
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  • Gene Demby
Former President Jimmy Carter and his wife, Rosalynn Carter, attach siding to the front of a Habitat for Humanity home being built on June 10, 2003, in LaGrange, Georgia.

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  • Perspective

Jimmy Carter is no saint in my house

For President Biden's legacy, we should look to late President Jimmy Carter's history in Central America.

January 10, 2025
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  • Jasmine Romero
Then-Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., questions Attorney General Merrick Garland during a hearing by the House Judiciary Committee on June 4, 2024. President-elect Donald Trump had picked Gaetz as his nominee for attorney general, but Gaetz withdrew from consideration on Thursday.

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  • Perspective

A 'lynch mob' did not come for Matt Gaetz, but the phrasing remains powerful

Even as a young child, I could understand the idea that words have meaning, which is why when Sen. Lindsey Graham referred to a "lynch mob" coming after Matt Gaetz, I felt my stomach drop.

November 25, 2024
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  • Leah Donnella

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  • Perspective

How to approach the holidays with people you deeply disagree with

Code Switch weighs in on preparing for difficult political conversations and when to draw the line and uninvite yourself from that family potluck.

November 18, 2024
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  • Leah Donnella

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  • Perspective

From Obama to Harris, a look at what's changed

As Kamala Harris nears the Democratic party’s nomination, the mood around her candidacy seems less breathless than in 2008. Code Switch digs into what a Black president would mean this time.

July 26, 2024
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  • Leah Donnella
Limonana, aka Egyptian Mint Lemonade

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  • Perspective

Drinks to keep you cool as the world heats up

Given all the heavy news swirling around these past few weeks, we wanted to try to bring the temperature down a little. So here it is: drinks to help you cool down.

July 16, 2024
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  • Leah Donnella
A Confederate statue in front of the courthouse in Columbia, N.C., with a plaque on the bottom that reads: “IN APPRECIATION OF OUR FAITHFUL SLAVES.”

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  • Race

Appreciating our enslaved ancestors despite the relics of the Confederacy

Code Switch co-host B.A. Parker on what to do with the debris of Southern sins as we celebrate Juneteenth.

June 19, 2024
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  • B.A. Parker
Former Los Angeles Clippers team owner Donald Sterling and V. Stiviano watch the San Antonio Spurs play against the Memphis Grizzlies during the Western Conference Finals of the 2013 NBA Playoffs

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  • Perspective

Code Switch co-host weighs in on basketball, housing, and two Donalds

Gene Demby on what former NBA Clippers team owner Donald Sterling getting banned for life from the league has to do with Donald Trump and racist housing policy.

June 11, 2024
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  • Gene Demby

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  • Race

In a debate over a school name, it's not just parents who are attached to the past

At the height of the racial reckoning, a school district in Virginia voted to rename two schools that had been previously named for Confederate generals. This month, that decision was reversed.

May 18, 2024
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  • Leah Donnella
In an episode of <em>Comedians In Cars Getting Coffee</em> called "Larry Eats A Pancake," Jerry Seinfeld has coffee with Larry David.

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  • Race

Jerry Seinfeld and the fraught history of comedians and 'political correctness'

Jerry Seinfeld has the become the latest in a string of public figures to blame "political correctness" for the death of comedy (among other societal ills). But what does the term actually refer to?

May 04, 2024
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  • Leah Donnella
President Biden delivers remarks Thursday at the White House. Biden addressed the special counsel's report on his handling of classified material, and the status of the war in Gaza.

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  • Race

How ageism against Biden and Trump puts older folks at risk

Recently, conversation about the age of the 2024 presidential candidates has risen to a fever pitch. That's the sign of a deeper problem with how our culture views aging.

February 16, 2024
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  • Leah Donnella
Martin Luther King Jr. stands in front of a crowd in Washington, D.C.

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  • Arts & Life

Martin Luther King is not your mascot

Everywhere you look, people are vocally celebrating MLK Day. But many are cherry-picking which parts of his legacy to recall, and which will be conveniently relegated to the dustbins of history.

January 14, 2024
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  • Leah Donnella

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