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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The steadily growing amount of money that immigrants send home is increasingly going to nations such as India and Mexico, where annual per capita income falls between $1,000 and $12,000.
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This week marks the release of Bartlett's Familiar Black Quotations. Which leads us to the question: Just what is a black quote, anyway?
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Kamala Khan, a Muslim teenager from New Jersey, is the latest comic book superhero to take up the Ms. Marvel mantle. We chatted with some Muslim comics fans to see what it might augur for future depictions of Muslims. -
This week marks the 63rd anniversary of the day Earl Lloyd took the court for the Washington Capitols. We got him on the phone for a quick chat. -
More and more Americans belong to multiracial, adoptive or blended families, but relatives who look different from each other still spur questions from strangers — and sometimes suspicion. -
Bluefield State College in Bluefield, W.Va., is 90 percent white. Its alumni association is all black, and it still gets federal money as a historically black institution. -
Maxine Powell, who ran a finishing school for Motown's musicians, died this weekend at the age of 98. Her work polishing young artists for mainstream exposure was a big reason the legendary record label was able to integrate the airwaves. -
The ruling in the closely watched case found that the state's practices discouraged students from considering black colleges and universities. It follows a recent report that concluded states were pitting their historically black institutions against predominantly white schools. -
The Washington Redskins are one of the popular and valuable teams in the NFL, and polls show that most Americans don't think the team's name should change. But that hasn't stopped Native American activists and some lawmakers from trying. -
If the mega-selling game wasn't packed with little thrills like stumbling on an old jam, its often ugly treatment of people of color and women might be harder to stomach.
