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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A pair of motorcycle rallies in Myrtle Beach, S.C. — one black, one white — tell us a lot about who gets the benefit of the doubt when it comes to biker culture. -
A common reader response to our look back at the shocking 1985 bombing of the MOVE compound in West Philadelphia: "Never heard of it." -
Longtime Philly resident Gerald Renfrow wants you to know that there's more to his block than what happened on May 13, 1985.
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Philadelphia native Gene Demby was 4 years old when city police dropped a bomb on a house of black activists in his hometown. Thirty years later, he's still trying to make sense of it all. -
The details of the deadly police-involved shooting of Walter Scott bear some strong resonances with many of the cases of police violence that have made headlines over the past year. -
One of New York City's thorniest political issues is over how to make its elite high schools more representative. A new study says that many popular proposals won't help diversity — and might hurt it.
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In the #FearAndRace discussion, hundreds of people weighed in on what it was like to navigate the world as black men seen as a threat, and how they did it. -
A recent Deadline article worried whether network TV might be becoming too brown. It missed some really important history. -
The Justice Department crunched years of data after Charles Ramsey, the city's police commissioner, requested that it look into how and when his officers used deadly force. -
A new Nielsen report shows that wooing customers of color has got to be in every company's game plan.
