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Friday 01 July 2022 : When the District 28 diversity planning process came around, many Chinese parents had already been activated a year earlier by the fight to...
Wednesday 29 June 2022 : Tens of thousands of children were adopted from other countries by parents in the U.S., only to discover as adults a quirk in federal law...
Friday 24 June 2022 : In some ways, this entire season was prompted by the parents who organized against diversity planning in School District 28. So in this...
Sunday 19 June 2022 : It's the second year that Juneteenth has been a federal holiday — which means it's getting the full summer holiday treatment: sales on...
Friday 17 June 2022 : Though a lot of parents and educators agree there needs to be some change in District 28, the question remains: what kind of change? When we...
Wednesday 15 June 2022 : A new book by Linda Villarosa looks at how racial bias in healthcare has costs for all Americans. Spoiler: Poverty counts — but not as...
Wednesday 08 June 2022 : Code Switch's Kumari Devarajan found an unlikely demographic doppelganger in D'Lo, a comedian and playwright whose one-person show about...
Friday 03 June 2022 : Until recently, School District 28 in Queens, N.Y., was characterized by a white Northside, and a Black Southside. But today, the district,...
Wednesday 01 June 2022 : In the wake of violence and tragedies, people are often left in search of ways to feel safe again. That almost inevitably to conversations...
Friday 27 May 2022 : So much of the present day conversation about District 28 hinges on the dynamic between the Northside and the Southside. But why were the...
Wednesday 25 May 2022 : Millions of Syrians have been displaced by ongoing civil war. In her new book, Refuge, Heba Gowayed follows Syrians who have resettled in...
Friday 20 May 2022 : In the early 1970s, Forest Hills, Queens, became a national symbol of white, middle class resistance to integration. Instead of public...
Wednesday 18 May 2022 : Utang na loob is the Filipino concept of an eternal debt to others, be it family or friends, who do a favor for you. It goes back to...
Wednesday 11 May 2022 : School District 28 in Queens, N.Y., has a Northside and a Southside. To put it simply, the Southside is Black and the farther north you go,...
Wednesday 04 May 2022 : In 2019, a school district in Queens N.Y., one of the most diverse places on the planet, is selected to go through the process of creating...
Monday 02 May 2022 : Coming soon to the Code Switch feed: School Colors,a limited-run series about how race, class and power shape American cities and schools....
Wednesday 27 April 2022 : Some call it a riot. Some call it an uprising. Many Korean Americans simply call it "Sai-i-gu" (literally, 4-2-9.) But no matter what you...
Wednesday 20 April 2022 : How can anything be more important than what's happening right now? That's the question a woman named Evelyn Wang is pondering right before...
Wednesday 13 April 2022 : In the 70s and 80s, Fashion Fair was an iconic cosmetics company designed to create makeup for Black women of all shades. This is the story...
Wednesday 06 April 2022 : What do you do when all your options for school kind of suck? That was the question some folks on the Standing Rock Reservation found...
Wednesday 30 March 2022 : Lindy Hop is a dance that was born in Harlem in the 1920s and 1930s — created and performed by African Americans in segregated clubs and...
Wednesday 23 March 2022 : It is probably the most radioactive word in the English language. At the same time, the N-word is kind of everywhere: books, movies, music,...
Wednesday 16 March 2022 : This week marks the one year anniversary of a deadly shooting spree in Atlanta, where eight people were killed. Six of those people were...
Wednesday 09 March 2022 : Gene Demby and comedian Hari Kondabolu are both new fathers, and they're both learning to raise kids who will have very different identities...
Wednesday 02 March 2022 : Figure skating has always been about flair and drama. But what happens on the ice is nothing compared to what goes on behind the scenes....
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School Colors Episode 8: "The Only Way Out"
When the District 28 diversity planning process came around, many Chinese parents had already been activated a year earlier by the fight to...
No Man's Land
Tens of thousands of children were adopted from other countries by parents in the U.S., only to discover as adults a quirk in federal law...
School Colors Episode 7: "The Sleeping Giant"
In some ways, this entire season was prompted by the parents who organized against diversity planning in School District 28. So in this...
On Food, Mattress Sales, and Juneteenth
It's the second year that Juneteenth has been a federal holiday — which means it's getting the full summer holiday treatment: sales on...
School Colors Episode 6: "Below Liberty"
Though a lot of parents and educators agree there needs to be some change in District 28, the question remains: what kind of change? When we...
The impact of COVID-19, a million deaths in
A new book by Linda Villarosa looks at how racial bias in healthcare has costs for all Americans. Spoiler: Poverty counts — but not as...
Spilling the T
Code Switch's Kumari Devarajan found an unlikely demographic doppelganger in D'Lo, a comedian and playwright whose one-person show about...
School Colors Episode 5: "The Melting Pot"
Until recently, School District 28 in Queens, N.Y., was characterized by a white Northside, and a Black Southside. But today, the district,...
Rethinking 'safety' in the wake of Uvalde
In the wake of violence and tragedies, people are often left in search of ways to feel safe again. That almost inevitably to conversations...
School Colors Episode 4: "The Mason-Dixon Line"
So much of the present day conversation about District 28 hinges on the dynamic between the Northside and the Southside. But why were the...
How We Decide Who Is 'Worthy of Welcome'
Millions of Syrians have been displaced by ongoing civil war. In her new book, Refuge, Heba Gowayed follows Syrians who have resettled in...
School Colors Episode 3: "The Battle of Forest Hills"
In the early 1970s, Forest Hills, Queens, became a national symbol of white, middle class resistance to integration. Instead of public...
The Utang Clan
Utang na loob is the Filipino concept of an eternal debt to others, be it family or friends, who do a favor for you. It goes back to...
School Colors Episode 2: "Tales From The Southside"
School District 28 in Queens, N.Y., has a Northside and a Southside. To put it simply, the Southside is Black and the farther north you go,...
School Colors Episode 1: "There Is No Plan"
In 2019, a school district in Queens N.Y., one of the most diverse places on the planet, is selected to go through the process of creating...
Coming Soon: Code Switch presents 'School Colors'
Coming soon to the Code Switch feed: School Colors,a limited-run series about how race, class and power shape American cities and schools....
The LA Uprising, a generation later
Some call it a riot. Some call it an uprising. Many Korean Americans simply call it "Sai-i-gu" (literally, 4-2-9.) But no matter what you...
Race, queerness, and superpowers in 'Everything, Everywhere, All at Once'
How can anything be more important than what's happening right now? That's the question a woman named Evelyn Wang is pondering right before...
A makeup company gets a facelift
In the 70s and 80s, Fashion Fair was an iconic cosmetics company designed to create makeup for Black women of all shades. This is the story...
A New Movement on Standing Rock
What do you do when all your options for school kind of suck? That was the question some folks on the Standing Rock Reservation found...
The dance that made its way from Harlem to Sweden
Lindy Hop is a dance that was born in Harlem in the 1920s and 1930s — created and performed by African Americans in segregated clubs and...
Why the N-word is so toxic
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It is probably the most radioactive word in the English language. At the same time, the N-word is kind of everywhere: books, movies, music,...
Screams and Silence
This week marks the one year anniversary of a deadly shooting spree in Atlanta, where eight people were killed. Six of those people were...
What's In A Dad?
Gene Demby and comedian Hari Kondabolu are both new fathers, and they're both learning to raise kids who will have very different identities...
Mabel Fairbanks: The Ice Breaker
Figure skating has always been about flair and drama. But what happens on the ice is nothing compared to what goes on behind the scenes....
