Gene Demby
Gene Demby is the co-host and correspondent for NPR's Code Switch team.
Before coming to NPR, he served as the managing editor for Huffington Post's BlackVoices following its launch. He later covered politics.
Prior to that role he spent six years in various positions at The New York Times. While working for the Times in 2007, he started a blog about race, culture, politics and media called PostBourgie, which won the 2009 Black Weblog Award for Best News/Politics Site.
Demby is an avid runner, mainly because he wants to stay alive long enough to finally see the Sixers and Eagles win championships in their respective sports. You can follow him on Twitter at @GeeDee215.
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There has been a strong backlash after two black men were arrested at a Philadelphia Starbucks for trespassing.
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The former House speaker is getting into the marijuana game, illustrating the ironies of the way many Americans think about weed, particularly when it comes to race.
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The law made it illegal to discriminate on the basis of race, color, disability, religion, sex, familial or national origin in housing. But since its passage, it has only been selectively enforced.
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Unarmed black people are much more likely than unarmed whites to be fatally shot by the police. A new study finds that that disparity gets wider in states with more racial segregation.
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Marvel's action movie Black Panther is a blockbuster. It has also become a totem and a rite of passage for African-Americans who see themselves in the director and cast.
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'Black Panther' new superhero epic has the biggest-ever budget of any Hollywood movie with a black cast, and is freighted with all the hopes and anxieties that come along with it.
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Even in the best economic times, black unemployment is nearly twice that of whites, and those racial disparities have calcified into a permanent, structural feature of the American economy.
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In the 1960s, Tom Burrell helped changed advertising by convincing agencies to tailor their pitches to black consumers, but he also saw his marketing work as part of a larger social project.
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We asked you to send us your racial conundrums. And in the first 'Ask Code Switch,' we take on a big one: How do you talk to family members whose racial views seem stuck in the Stone Age?
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This weekend's "Unite The Right" rally in Virginia, which brought together white supremacists and far-right groups, is part of an ongoing campaign to move their cause out of the shadows.