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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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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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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?
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3 weeks ago | 
wrvo.org | Gene Demby |Xavier Lopez |Xavier López |Courtney Stein |Jess Kung
Trump's win exposed political tensions between Arab-American voters — who were critical of Democratic support of Israel's war in Gaza, and Black voters — who remain the Democrats' most loyal supporters. That friction is especially pronounced in the majority Arab city of Dearborn, Michigan, and its majority Black neighbor, Detroit. This week, we go to a testy iftar dinner in Dearborn, where Arab and Black folks sat down to begin having tough conversations about how to move forward.
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3 weeks ago | 
npr.org | Gene Demby |Xavier Lopez |Xavier López |Courtney Stein |Jess Kung |Christina Cala | +3 more
Arab and Black communities are trying to reconcile after Trump's election Download Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/1251284841/1269304826" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Trump's win exposed political tensions between Arab-American voters — who were critical of Democratic support of Israel's war in Gaza, and Black voters — who remain the Democrats' most loyal supporters.
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1 month ago | 
wrvo.org | Gene Demby |Xavier Lopez |Xavier López |Courtney Stein |Jess Kung
We're coming up on 40 years since the MOVE bombing in Philadelphia, the day a Philadelphia police department helicopter dropped a bomb on a row house. The bombing and the fire it set unfolded on live television. And even though eleven people were killed and hundreds were left homeless by the fires, the MOVE bombing has been largely forgotten. How did we collectively memory-hole an event this big? And what does that tell us about race and policing even today?
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1 month ago | 
npr.org | Gene Demby |Xavier Lopez |Xavier López |Courtney Stein |Jess Kung |Christina Cala | +3 more
40 years ago, Philadelphia police bombed this Black neighborhood on live TV Download Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/1249592902/1269263884" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> We're coming up on 40 years since the MOVE bombing in Philadelphia, the day a Philadelphia police department helicopter dropped a bomb on a row house. The bombing and the fire it set unfolded on live television.
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1 month ago | 
wrvo.org | Jess Kung |B.A. Parker |Dalia Mortada |Christina Cala
Marsha P. Johnson was a trailblazer in the fight for gay rights — from being a key figure in the Stonewall Riots in 1969 to an organizer in the HIV-AIDS crisis in the 1990s. But Johnson's legacy extends beyond her activism: "Marsha was a really full person who lived a vibrant life. She was a muse and model for Andy Warhol," and a performer in New York City and London. In this episode, we talk to activist and author Tourmaline about what we can all learn from Johnson's legacy in times of adversity.
