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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Some of the most incisive and subversive commentary about race continues to come from comedians. Tell us your favorites. -
A controversial article posted to the CrossFit Facebook page has led to a larger discussion about race. The majority of participants in the grueling and popular workout genre are white. Just how many people of color participate, though, is tough to say. -
It might seem that members of minority groups never call out other members of the groups they belong to. But that's because we don't often hear each other's conversations. -
Is there a double-standard around who gets to use loaded terms about race? Code Switch's Gene Demby argues that there are no rules. There's only context and consequence. -
The number of Latinos enrolled in college has hit an all-time high, and it's part of a years-long trend. -
A federal judge in New York has ordered a black supervisor to pay $250,000 for using a slur against a black employee.
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The mercurial comedian's comeback has been hotly anticipated, but a performance Thursday night in Connecticut went off the rails. -
It was called "The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom." So what effects did the historic rally have on employment in the United States? -
This week was the 40th anniversary of hip-hop's creation, and many of its most important practitioners are entering middle age, too.
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The federal judge in New York City's closely watched stop-and-frisk trial issued a pointed ruling that alluded to police whistle-blowers, academic research and the Trayvon Martin case.
