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What's CODE SWITCH? It's the fearless conversations about race that you've been waiting for. Hosted by journalists of color, our podcast tackles the subject of race with empathy and humor.

Spoken has transcripts of 665 Code Switch episodes, with the speakers named. The newest listed here is from August 5, 2020.

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Latest Code Switch transcripts

The Long, Bloody Strike For Ethnic Studies

August 5, 2020

SPEAKER_1 (0:00)

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Gene Demby (0:17)

50 years ago, a bitter strike upended one of America's biggest cities.

It wasn't a standoff between workers and bosses, though. It was a standoff between college students and college administrators.

Shereen Marisol Meraji (0:34)

It was a multiracial fight. Hundreds of students at a mostly white commuter college in San Francisco, California, refused to go to class until more people of color were admitted. Strikers were also calling for a radical innovation at the time. A college of ethnic studies where all students could learn about brown…

And I think it's fair to say things got ugly.

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