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Welcome to a collection of some of NPR's best podcast episodes and features from across the Black ex

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Total: 41

The Civil Rights Act was signed into law on July 2, 1964. President Lyndon B. Johnson called it a wa

In the post-apocalyptic world of A Quiet Place, aliens kill anyone who makes a sound, forcing humans

For many Black people, transitioning to natural hair can feel frustrating, especially if you're doin

With the news of O.J. Simpson's death on Thursday, we're revisiting our reporting from 2016, where w

What does a comedian know about baseball? And what can America's oldest baseball field tell us about

Michael Jackson is reaching a new generation of fans through a popular Broadway musical featuring hi

The dating app Bumble can not stay out of the news. First, the company launched an anti-celibacy adv

Trans women have become culturally associated with the violence they face, both in sympathy and stig

First up, there has been a media frenzy around the fouls made against rising basketball star and Ind

The venerable British science fiction series Doctor Who is back with a new season. Ncuti Gatwa — who

We've probably said it a hundred times on Code Switch — biological race is not a real thing. So why

Martin Luther King Jr. was relatively unpopular when he was assassinated. But the way Americans of a

A civil lawsuit has been filed against rap mogul Sean "Diddy" Combs by his ex-girlfriend and former

The prince of pranks, Eric André, changed the comedy landscape with his long-running series on Adult

A Taste of Freedom

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Juneteenth commemorates the day that enslaved Texans found out — more than two years after Emancipat

Tracee Ellis Ross is an icon. From playing the premiere Black bachelorette, Joan Carol Clayton, on G

The start of a new year can push us to think about how we take care of ourselves – our bodies or our

One in ten Black people living in the U.S. is an immigrant, and many Black immigrants—particularly t

The Montgomery bus boycott lasted from December of 1955 through December of 1956. What people often

Former first lady Michelle Obama's most recent memoir, The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain T