NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talked to Mélisande Short-Colomb, whose family was once enslaved by Georgetown University. Now, at 63, Short-Colomb has enrolled as a freshman there.

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As we light a candle on the Code Switch podcast's birthday cake, our team looks back on the stories that mattered.

The Top Dawg singer's new album is as dreamy as we all hoped it would be. Code Switch and NPR Music tapped in a few members of the NPR fam to chat with us about how SZA and Ctrl resonates with them.

The Pan-African flag, designed by Marcus Garvey in 1920, was intended as an expression of black liberation. It's still used around the world.

We got more than 100 letters from our listeners about how y'all feel like fakes. Here are some of our favorites.

In the meantime, some are producing their own shows or creating material for alternative platforms like YouTube.

A photographer uses his lens to peer through perceptions of queerness in his ancestral home.

Traffic fines in California have an outsize effect on low-income drivers and minorities.

Yara Shahidi is not all like the character she plays on ABC's Black-ish. But the actor and her character have hit a lot of the same milestones at the same time.

The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood was a best-seller list after the 2016 election. We reread the dystopian classic to prep for a new TV miniseries that begins next week.

You could say it's been a pretty turbulent week on the race beat.

Prince on defining his music: "The only thing I could think of, because I really don't like categories, but the only thing I could think of is inspirational."

What does it mean to be black? What does it mean to be blacker?

In 2016, people of color wrote or illustrated fewer than a quarter of new children's books. Here's why that matters.

Discussions of a border wall happen at the intersection of environmental and civil rights.

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Ben's Chili Bowl, the D.C. restaurant famous for its half-smokes and civil rights ties, is preparing to replace its landmark mural to help "heal the country." And you get a say.

Opponents of the Dakota Access and Keystone XL pipelines say that President Trump's new executive memo is a disappointment. But it's one that they have been gearing up for.

Fans of the new president say he could do some good in improving race relations in America. But they say the solution can't be left to him alone.