Launched in 2016, NPR’s Code Switch is a weekly podcast featuring a
multi-racial, multi-generational team of journalists fascinated by the
overlapping themes of race, ethnicity and culture, and how all of this is
shifting. And this last year has been filled with devastating news — stories
about the police killing black people. In this episode, the Code Switch
team speaks with Jamil Smith who's a senior writer at Rolling Stone and in
2015, he wrote the essay "What Does Seeing Black Men Die Do For
You?" for The New Republic.

Launched in 2016, NPR’s Code Switch is a weekly podcast featuring a multi-racial, multi-generational team of journalists fascinated by the overlapping themes of race, ethnicity and culture, and how all of this is shifting. And this last year has been filled with devastating news — stories about the police killing black people. In this episode, the Code Switch team speaks with Jamil Smith who's a senior writer at Rolling Stone and in 2015, he wrote the essay "What Does Seeing Black Men Die Do For You?" for The New Republic.

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About the Series: In 1977, NASA sent the Voyager into space with two records known as the &ldquo;Golden Records.&rdquo; On them were recordings of notable historic music, evocative nature sounds, and murmurs from contemporary life, all used to paint a picture of humanity and the world at large. Things have changed a lot since 1977, so Caleb Hearon and Shelby Wolstein are trying their hand at an update. About the Creators: Caleb Hearon is a comedian, writer, and actor currently writing for Netflix&rsquo;s upcoming Big Mouth spinoff, Human Resources. He was recently named one of Variety's 10 Comics to Watch. Shelby Wolstein is comedian and writer based in Los Angeles. Along with Caleb Hearon, she was an iO Theater Studio Eleven Cast member.

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