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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You won't have any thoughts about the rapper's new song about racial inequality, and his place as a white dude in hip-hop, that you didn't have before, in part because he plays it so safe. -
An essay in The Atlantic says TV shows and movies with ethnically diverse casts that ignore race miss out on some rich storytelling opportunities. -
NPR's Ari Shapiro talks to Gene Demby of NPR's Code Switch team about his recent article, "The Long, Necessary History of 'Whiny' Black Protesters At College."
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To many, the explosion of campus protests across the country sounded like griping from coddled, entitled young people. But these student demands are hardly new, even if campus dynamics have changed. -
The Missouri football team's role in the protests on their campus rests against an important shift in the way student-athletes think about the relationship between themselves and their schools. -
A new interactive graphic from the Census Bureau reveals that no two surveys have ever had the same set of options for choosing one's race. -
If CEOs are hearing the recent critiques of diversity initiatives — and don't want to be That Guy — here are a few prescriptions on how to do better. -
Two new essays explore a subject we're fascinated with here at Code Switch — how people navigate public spaces awash in images they deplore in order to make community and belong.
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The soapy Fox drama worked in a pointed critique about the criminal justice system in a recent episode — an anomaly in prime time, where bad actions are invariably the work of a few bad apples. -
This year's Emmy broadcast highlighted some big demographic and technological shifts staring everyone in the face — and encapsulated how much the centers of gravity in the TV landscape had shifted.
