Gene Demby appears in the following:
The Butterfly Effects Of Ferguson
Thursday, August 11, 2016
Reporting While Brown In The Summer Of Trump: Episode 11
Wednesday, August 03, 2016
Quick Thoughts On The Ups And Downs Of Google Searches For 'White People'
Friday, July 22, 2016
Study Explores Links Between Politics And Racial Bias
Thursday, July 14, 2016
Dallas Attack Special Coverage: 'The City Is Devastated'
Friday, July 08, 2016
Dallas Shooting Adds To Pessimism On Social Media
Friday, July 08, 2016
On The Code Switch Podcast: 'I'm Not Black, I'm O.J.!'
Wednesday, June 29, 2016
#NPRreads: Take An Adventure With These 3 Stories This Weekend
Saturday, June 11, 2016
On Muhammad Ali's Complicated Contradictions, And How He Changed Boxing
Friday, June 10, 2016
The Code Switch Podcast, Episode 1: Can We Talk About Whiteness?
Tuesday, May 31, 2016
It's Gotten A Lot Harder To Act Like Whiteness Doesn't Shape Our Politics
Friday, May 13, 2016
Before Diving Into The Raging Flood Of New Beyoncé Thinkpieces, Read This
Monday, April 25, 2016
Talking Housing Segregation And Chicago With WBEZ's Natalie Y. Moore
Monday, April 11, 2016
On Who Gets To Be A 'Real American,' And Who Deserves A Helping Hand
Wednesday, March 23, 2016
In Tackling Bias In Policing, 'Zootopia' Veers Into The Uncanny Valley
Monday, March 14, 2016
Watching A Brown 'Hamilton' With A White Audience
Tuesday, March 08, 2016
On Friday night, I finally got to see Hamilton, the critically acclaimed musical I've been surprisingly obsessed with since Frannie Kelley's glowing write-up of the cast album last fall.
I say "surprising" because I am not a fan of musical theater, the kind of not-a-fan-of-musical-theater who pointedly self-describes ...
Combing Through 41 Million Tweets To Show How #BlackLivesMatter Exploded
Wednesday, March 02, 2016
It's been only a year and a half since the social protest movement around police violence commonly referred to as Black Lives Matter emerged as a major political force.
Much of this movement's momentum-building and organizing happened on Twitter, and a fascinating new study by media scholars Charlton McIlwain, ...
#OscarsSoWhite, #ForSoLong
Thursday, February 25, 2016
You may have read something like this over the past few weeks, in the run-up to this year's hotly contested Academy Awards ceremony:
"The fact that there is an absence of African-American nominees at the awards this year is something I'm less concerned about than how that reflects on ...
I Guess We Gotta Talk About Macklemore's 'White Privilege' Song
Friday, January 29, 2016
So. Macklemore. I suppose we have to talk about Macklemore.
By now you've heard — or heard about — the white Seattle rapper's nine-minute song "White Privilege II," about his tricky relationship with hip-hop and black protest movements. It's typical Macklemore — earnest, more than a little hamfisted — and ...
Making The Case Against 'Colorblind Casting'
Tuesday, December 29, 2015
Over at The Atlantic, Angelica Jade Bastîen has a smart essay pushing back on the supposed benefits of "colorblind casting" in Hollywood — that is, putting actors of color in roles that weren't explicitly written as people of color.
She points to Oscar Isaac, the prolific, charismatic actor who ...