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Code Switch

Podcast about race and culture

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 26, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

Code Switch is an NPR podcast and section covering race and culture. It began in 2013 as a blog and a series of stories on NPR radio programs. The Code Switch podcast launched in 2016, hosted by Gene Demby and Shereen Marisol Meraji. In 2022, B.A. Parker joined as a co-host. In 2020, in the wake of the George Floyd protests, Code Switch became one of NPR's top ranked podcasts and was named Apple's Podcast of the Year.

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“Code Switch” enters the record as podcast about race and culture. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Code, Switch and Podcast can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2013, 2016, 2022, 2020—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Code, Switch and Podcast.
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“Code Switch” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Code, Switch and Podcast provides the most credible route into that argument.

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This entry incorporates text from “Code Switch” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.