Race

Beloved journalist Harry Smith is teaching a college course in Iowa, and author Ta-Nehisi Coates discusses his new book, The Message.

A Justice Department investigation launched after the beating death of Tyre Nichols in 2023 found that "Memphis police officers regularly violate the rights of the people they are sworn to serve."

Dormitory life and all the complexities of navigating money in college are on display in her latest book Come and Get It.

Families of Japanese-Americans interned in a camp in Colorado are working with survivors of the state's worst massacre of Native Americans, which happened in the same area, to heal and educate.

Most Black women voters supported Kamala Harris in her presidential run against Donald Trump. Now some say they are pulling back, to rest and mourn.

Two former leaders of the Southern Baptist Convention, one Black and one white, want to bridge the Deep South's racial divide with faith-based discussions in cities once active in the slave trade.

Even as a young child, I could understand the idea that words have meaning, which is why when Sen. Lindsey Graham referred to a "lynch mob" coming after Matt Gaetz, I felt my stomach drop.

The word "squaw" was declared derogatory by the Department of Interior in 2021. Since then, hundreds of geographic features have been renamed with input from local tribes and Indigenous communities.

Code Switch weighs in on preparing for difficult political conversations and when to draw the line and uninvite yourself from that family potluck.

Over Veterans Day weekend in Waterloo, several residents received fliers for the Aryan Freedom Network, a white supremacist group that claims official chapters in over half of the United States. The incident is the latest in a string of hate-speech disturbances in the area since July.