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The Rise and Fall of the Panama Canal

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Reflecting on the legacy of O.J. Simpson

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How Frederick Douglass launched generations of Black and Irish solidarity

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WTF does race have to do with taxes?

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Who does language belong to? A fight over the Lakota Language

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Getting let down by the 'Great Expectations' of electoral politics

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In the world of medicine, race-based diagnoses are more than skin deep

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This conspiracy theory about eating bugs is also about race

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The musical legacy of Japanese American incarceration

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Why menthol cigarettes have a chokehold on Black smokers

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Before the apps, people used newspapers to find love

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How college footballers led the fight against racism in 1969

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What it's like to be a Black woman with bipolar disorder

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Taylor Swift and the unbearable whiteness of girlhood

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A former church girl's search for a new spiritual home

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What happens when public housing goes private?

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The women who masterminded the Montgomery Bus Boycott

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Everyone wants a piece of Martin Luther King Jr.'s legacy

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67 years after desegregation, Arkansas schools are in the spotlight again

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Women of color have always shaped the way Americans eat

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Here are our favorite Code Switch episodes from 2023

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Revisiting 'The Color Purple' wars

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This is what "real self-care" looks like

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Watching 'Renaissance' and what we hear in Beyoncé's silence

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The world can be painful. But love is possible, too

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Can you travel the world — ethically?

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A Tale of Two Tribal Nations

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Who Has The "Right To A Story?"

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How does a computer discriminate?

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All The Only Ones: The Missing Piece Of The Puzzle

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Looking For My People In The Black Punk Scene

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Giving up on identity with Ada Limón

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The agony and ecstasy of parenting with Hari Kondabolu

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What does it mean to be good?

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Student activists are fighting big coal, and winning

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Probation and parole — the under-researched arms of mass incarceration

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'I Can Die For This Country, But I Can't Learn'

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Remembering and unremembering, from Kigali to Nashville

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Fall football — or the fall of football?

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Bad Bunny, Reggaeton, and Resistance

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What Makes A Good Race Joke?

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Family, fortune, and the fight for Osage headrights

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How Hip-Hop Fights The Power — And Also Serves It

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Rolling the dice on race in Dungeons & Dragons

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Code Switch's beach reads — no beach required

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This Conspiracy Soup Contains Bugs — And Racism

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Is "home" still home after 30 years away?

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What Happens After A Racist Massacre In Your Neighborhood?

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Honoring My Enslaved Ancestors, Part Two

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Honoring My Enslaved Ancestors, Part One

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Going to a white church in a Black body

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Spilling the "T" with comedian D'Lo

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Exclusion, resilience and the Chinese American experience on 'Mott Street'

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Across the ocean: a Japanese American story of war and homecoming

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The implications of the case against ICWA

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Naomi Jackson talks 'losing and finding my mind'

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K-Pop's Surprising B(l)ackstory

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The Fallout of a Callout

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Self-Care Laid Bare

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W2s and WTFs

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Women in hip-hop push back against the male gaze

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The Tricky Obligations of Utang Na Loob

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The Women Behind the Montgomery Bus Boycott

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Whose Nightmares Are We Telling? How Horror Has Evolved for People of Color

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The Women Who Influence How America Eats

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This Racism Is Killing Me Inside

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Black History's Family Tree

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The Merengue War

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Reckoning With The NFL's Rooney Rule

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Celebrating Lunar New Year In A Time Of Grief

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The Original Rainbow Coalition

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Bad Bunny, Reggaeton, and Resistance

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Meet Lori Lizarraga—Our Newest Co-host

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Revisiting 'How The Other Half Eats'

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How cumbia has shaped music across Latin America

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Unlocking family history in 'Before Me'

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What We Watched in 2022

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Why some Republicans want to narrow who counts as Black

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Notes from America: 'Blackness (Un)interrupted'

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A lost bird, a found treasure

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Live from Chicago: What makes a city home?

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Throughline: How Korean culture went global

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Code Switch fam! Say hello to It's Been a Minute's new host, Brittany Luse!

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Fear In An Age Of Real Life Horror, Revisited

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Skeletons in the closet, revisited

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Black reality in a world of fantasy

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Omar Apollo on making music, being queer and Latinx

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Gaming out race in Dungeons & Dragons

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In 1962, segregationists set up "Reverse Freedom Rides"

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Can therapy solve racism?

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How the Pell Grant helped POCs go to college

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What does it mean to "inherit whiteness?"

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What makes a good race joke?

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What's so funny about race?

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Into the glittering neon universe of 'P-Valley' with Katori Hall

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Lost In Translation

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Meet B.A. Parker — our new co-host!

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Who belongs in the Cherokee Nation?

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School Colors Episode 9: "Water Under The Bridge"

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Code Switch's playlist for a summer road trip