USC Students Allege Racial Profiling By LAPD
The Los Angeles Police Department is under scrutiny again. This time it's for sending almost 80 officers to break up a college house party. Most of the partygoers were African-American students from...
View ArticleBlack Americans Give Entertainment Options Failing Grades
All this week on Code Switch and on air we've been digging into the findings of a survey of African-American views of their communities, finances and social lives.
View ArticleWhat [BLANK] Folks Don't Understand About Rachel Jeantel
Rachel Jeantel. Her hourslong testimony spanned two days of the George Zimmerman trial, and I bet you'll be talking about it with your friends over the weekend. She's the 19-year-old key witness for...
View ArticleComedian Aisha Tyler Talks About Flipping Off Failure
Comedian and actor Aisha Tyler brews beer, plays video games, tells dirty jokes, drinks fancy booze and ... writes books.She has a new one out this week: Self-inflicted Wounds: Heartwarming Tales of...
View ArticleWhy Modern Latinas Are A Challenge To Marketers
Transcript DAVID GREENE, HOST: Hispanic American are an increasingly important consumer demographic to woo. That's according to a new study from the market research firm Nielsen. The report says that...
View ArticleLatinas Drive Hispanic Purchasing Power In The U.S.
Meet Pamela Maria Wright — the "contemporary Latina consumer." She has two kids — Nico and Rita — whom she hopes will be bilingual, as she is. She's a tech-savvy working professional with a master's...
View ArticleSummer Of '63: Old Lessons For A New Movement
All this summer, NPR is looking back to civil rights activism of 1963, marking the 50th anniversary of a number of events that changed our society. From the assassination of civil rights leader Medgar...
View Article'The Muslims Are Coming!' To Middle America
Transcript DAVID GREENE, HOST: A group of Muslim comics went on tour through parts of Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, as well as Arizona. Their mission was to help Americans equate Islam with funny,...
View ArticleThe Whitest Historically Black College In America
It opened in the late 19th century as the Bluefield Colored Institute, created to educate the children of black coal miners in segregated West Virginia. Although it still receives the federal funding...
View ArticleAn East L.A. Football Rivalry, Unchanged For 79 Years
An East Los Angeles rivalry has become the largest high school football game west of the Mississippi. The football teams of Garfield High School and Roosevelt High School will meet on the gridiron...
View ArticleArturo Sandoval: Free To Blow His Trumpet The Way He Wants
A former president, a media mogul and a Cuban jazz trumpeter are among the 16 recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom on Wednesday. That Cuban jazz trumpeter, Arturo Sandoval, happened to be...
View ArticleWhy Chaucer Said 'Ax' Instead Of 'Ask,' And Why Some Still Do
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View ArticleLending Circles Help Latinas Pay Bills And Invest
As part of its Changing Lives of Women series, Morning Edition is exploring women and their relationship with money: saving, purchasing and investing for themselves and their families.
View ArticleBefore 'Brown V. Board,' Mendez Fought California's Segregated Schools
Sylvia Mendez says the only reason she wanted to go to an all-white school in California's Westminster District in the 1940s was because of its beautiful playground. The school that she and other...
View ArticleHonored Puerto Rican Army Unit Made A Name For Itself In Korean War
Transcript AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: They fought for the U.S. and countered ethnic stereotypes in the process. Today, President Obama honored the Puerto Rican soldiers of the 65th Infantry Regiment. The...
View ArticleFor These Inner-City Dads, Fatherhood Comes With Homework
About two dozen dads — all African-Americans, ranging in age from their early 20s to late 40s — are standing in a circle participating in a call-and-response exercise:Call: You done broke them chains....
View ArticleIn LA, Barbers Cut Hair And Check Blood Pressure
A Los Angeles doctor is training barbers to check their customers for high blood pressure. He's targeting the social hubs for black men because of the health risks associated with hypertension.
View ArticleA View On The World Cup, Seen From An LA Bar On A Midweek Morning
Fans of the U.S. soccer team gathered across the country to watch Thursday's World Cup match against Germany. More than a thousand people watched the game at Dupont Circle in Washington, D.C., and many...
View ArticleBathrobes And Baby Carriers: The Stuff Of Manliness?
This summer, All Things Considered is looking at the lives of Men in America and how things have changed — or haven't. Part of that is redefining masculinity, so the show asked me to ask guys about the...
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