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3 days ago | 
wrvo.org | Gene Demby |B.A. Parker |Christina Cala |Courtney Stein
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 who was in the room during a meeting when President Trump pushed this conspiracy theory on the president of South Africa. And we're digging into what Trump's fixation on white South Africans tell us about anxieties over white replacement here in the U.S.
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3 days ago | 
flipboard.com | Gene Demby |B.A. Parker |Christina Cala |Courtney Stein |Jess Kung |Xavier Lopez | +3 more
NowAs USAID pulls back, the stage is set for a high-stakes debate at the Human Rights Festival. What does the USAID withdrawal mean for young Africans? Could Africa's greatest opportunity come from a funding crisis?
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4 days ago | 
flipboard.com | Aisha Harris |Linda Holmes |Gene Demby |Liz Metzger |Mike Katzif |Jessica Reedy
17 hours ago 'Succession' Creator's New HBO Movie with Steve Carell Causes a Huge Divide on Rotten Tomatoes Premiering on Saturday, May 31, Succession creator Jesse Armstrong's new HBO flick Mountainhead might be earning praise from critics, but fans haven't … 18 hours ago ‘Mountainhead’ star Cory Michael Smith: ‘This is one of my favorite jobs, easily, that I’ve ever had’ ‘Mountainhead’ star Cory Michael Smith: ‘This is one of my favorite jobs, easily, that I’ve ever had.’ He stars as a...
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1 week ago | 
tpr.org | Christina Cala |Gene Demby |Jess Kung |Courtney Stein
About 1 in 10 restaurants in the United States serve Mexican cuisine. That hunger for chalupas, tacos and more in the U.S. has been longstanding — from the conquistadors' love affair with chocolate, to the classic San Francisco burrito. This week, we're exploring the history of Mexican food in the United States, and asking what it takes for a cuisine to become quintessentially "American." Copyright 2025 NPR Arts & Culture tacosTop StoriesNational Stories
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1 week ago | 
wrvo.org | Christina Cala |Gene Demby |Jess Kung |Courtney Stein
About 1 in 10 restaurants in the United States serve Mexican cuisine. That hunger for chalupas, tacos and more in the U.S. has been longstanding — from the conquistadors' love affair with chocolate, to the classic San Francisco burrito. This week, we're exploring the history of Mexican food in the United States, and asking what it takes for a cuisine to become quintessentially "American."
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1 week ago | 
mainepublic.org | Scott Detrow |Gene Demby
SCOTT DETROW, HOST:Five years ago today, George Floyd was murdered by Derek Chauvin, a Minneapolis police officer. There was a swift reaction around the world, leading to a summer of protests calling for police reform. Today, that sweeping energy around reimagining and reforming policing has evaporated. According to Gallup, few institutions enjoy higher rates of approval from Americans than the police, even though most people rarely interact with them.
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1 week ago | 
ctpublic.org | Scott Detrow |Gene Demby
SCOTT DETROW, HOST:Five years ago today, George Floyd was murdered by Derek Chauvin, a Minneapolis police officer. There was a swift reaction around the world, leading to a summer of protests calling for police reform. Today, that sweeping energy around reimagining and reforming policing has evaporated. According to Gallup, few institutions enjoy higher rates of approval from Americans than the police, even though most people rarely interact with them.
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1 week ago | 
nhpr.org | Scott Detrow |Gene Demby
Five years since George Floyd's murder, the energy around overhauling policing has evaporated. Critics say pro-police messaging stifles attempts to address the problems in policing.
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2 weeks ago | 
wrvo.org | Gene Demby |Jess Kung |Leah Donnella |Christina Cala
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 conditions, like keloids or cystic fibrosis? On this episode, Dr. Andrea Deyrup breaks it down for us, and unpacks the problems she sees with practicing race-based medicine, from delayed diagnoses to ignoring environmental factors that lead to different health outcomes.
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2 weeks ago | 
npr.org | Gene Demby |Jess Kung |Leah Donnella |Christina Cala |Xavier Lopez |Xavier López | +4 more
How race science shows up at the doctor's office Download Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/1252663591/1269335873" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> The false notion of "biological race" is still sometimes used as a diagnostic tool in medicine. Why?
