Code Switch

Summary

When Rep. Jasmine Crockett took the stage at a Chris Brown concert to honor him, the backlash came fast. It's a familiar cycle: ... Joy is not a crumb. It's cookouts with soul music, celebrating what Ossie Davis called the full sweetness of our Blackness. But what ... Lauryn Hill is a generational voice, a cultural lightning rod, and one of music's biggest what-ifs. Our very own B.A. Parker joined ... In 1775, half a million enslaved people had to pick a side in a war between two groups of white men who both claimed to want ... The video is horrific, and the brutality is stark. But that was the case in Ferguson, Mo., in 2014 and Minnesota in 2016. This time ... Longtime homeowners — often Black seniors — are being tricked into signing away the deeds to their own homes, then getting ... There's a growing backlash to the surveillance systems that have quietly wired themselves into American neighborhoods, with ... Dating can be tough. Dating while Black? That can feel nigh impossible sometimes, given how the long tentacles of racism have ... To the casual observer, it might seem the U.S. has spent years in a constant state of protest — and they're only getting more ... In 2017, comedian Hari Kondabolu called out Hollywood's portrayals of South Asians with his documentary The Problem With Apu ... In Baynard Woods' new memoir, Inheritance: An Autobiography of Whiteness, Woods reflects on how growing up white in South ... Cubans are living through near-constant blackouts after an executive order that called the Cuban government an “unusual and ... Motherhood in the U.S. is revered. Actual mothers? Not so much. So where's a bedraggled mom to turn when she feels ... In the U.S., roughly 8 in 10 kids from lower-income households grow up with few or no swimming skills — and Black and Latino ...