
Xavier Lopez
Producer at Code Switch
🇪🇨 born, queens raised @nprcodeswitch producer (he/him) *tweets are joooookes, leave me alone pls*
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5 days ago |
tpr.org | Christina Cala |B.A. Parker |Gene Demby |Xavier Lopez |Xavier López
As the Trump administration targets the Smithsonian Institute for "divisive narratives" and "improper ideology," it got us thinking about how we preserve our history and everything that builds it, like language. So we're revisiting an episode from last year from the Lakota Nation in South Dakota over language — who preserves it, who has the right to the stories told in it, and who (literally) owns it. Copyright 2025 NPR Education Top StoriesNational StoriesNative Americans
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2 weeks ago |
npr.org | Sergio Martínez-Beltrán |Gene Demby |Christina Cala |Courtney Stein |Dalia Mortada |Luis Trelles | +5 more
Why Trump is sending Venezuelans to El Salvador : Code Switch One of President Trump's main campaign promises was carrying out mass deportations. We look at how the Trump administration is testing the U.S. legal system to make good on its promise, starting with the story of one family trying to find their 18-year-old son after immigration agents showed up at their doorstep.
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3 weeks ago |
npr.org | Gene Demby |Jess Kung |Courtney Stein |Xavier Lopez |Xavier López |Christina Cala | +3 more
Trump is banning diversity programs. What's lost in the DEI purge? Download Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/1242229709/1268752700" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> President Trump has put diversity, equity, and inclusion in his crosshairs — but there's no consensus on what DEI even means.
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4 weeks ago |
npr.org | B.A. Parker |Xavier Lopez |Xavier López |Luis Trelles |Dalia Mortada |Courtney Stein | +4 more
With measles on the rise, what we can learn from past epidemics Download Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/1240892108/1268432422" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Reports of measles cases in 18 states so far are alerting people to a potential new, but also old, threat of contagion.
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1 month ago |
mprnews.org | B.A. Parker |Christina Cala |Dalia Mortada |Courtney Stein |Gene Demby |Xavier Lopez | +3 more
Create an account or log in to save stories. Thanks for liking this story! We have added it to a list of your favorite stories. To be a Palestinian-American writer right now can lead to a lot of expectation to focus on identity and devastation, but in her debut novel, “Too Soon,” Betty Shamieh shares the story of three generations of Palestinian women trying to find love, purpose and liberation. Copyright 2025, NPR Political debates with family or friends can get heated.
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