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Code Switch

by NPR

What Trump's fixation on 'white genocide' in South Africa tells us about the U.S.

04.06.2025 • 00:34:34

How the false notion of "white genocide" traveled from the political fringes to the Oval Office. The week on Code Switch, we're talking to a reporter ...

Why tacos are as 'American' as apple pie

28.05.2025 • 00:31:46

The hunger for Mexican food in the U.S. is longstanding — from the conquistadors' love affair with chocolate, to the classic San Francisco burrito. Th...

How race science shows up at the doctor's office

21.05.2025 • 00:35:17

We've probably said it a hundred times on Code Switch — biological race is not a real thing. So why is race still used to help diagnose certain condit...

Arab and Black communities are trying to reconcile after Trump's election

14.05.2025 • 00:28:18

Trump's win exposed political tensions between Arab-American voters — who were critical of Democratic support of Israel's war in Gaza, and Black voter...

40 years ago, Philadelphia police bombed this Black neighborhood on live TV

07.05.2025 • 00:36:20

We're looking back on the day a Philadelphia police department helicopter dropped a bomb on a rowhouse in a middle-class neighborhood. Even though tha...

In the face of trans erasure, what can we learn from Marsha P. Johnson?

30.04.2025 • 00:31:30

Marsha P. Johnson was a trailblazer in the fight for gay rights. But Johnson's legacy extends beyond her activism: "Marsha was a really full person wh...

Why now is the time to find power in "otherness"

23.04.2025 • 00:31:22

Viet Thanh Nguyen came to the U.S. as a refugee from Vietnam when he was four years old. Growing up in San Jose, California, Nguyen remembers the mome...

Revisiting the fight over the Lakota language as Trump targets "divisive narratives"

16.04.2025 • 00:41:32

As the Trump administration targets the Smithsonian Institute for "divisive narratives" and "improper ideology," it got us thinking about how we prese...

Why Trump is sending Venezuelans to El Salvador

09.04.2025 • 00:37:49

One of President Trump's main campaign promises was carrying out mass deportations. We look at how the Trump administration is testing the U.S. legal ...

What's lost in Trump's DEI ban?

02.04.2025 • 00:32:07

President Trump has put diversity, equity, and inclusion in his crosshairs — but there's no consensus on what DEI even means. Some say that that fuzzi...

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What Trump's fixation on 'white genocide' in South Africa tells us about the U.S.
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