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  How Juneteenth and Black America helped shape U.S. cuisine

  Food and cooking play a big role in Juneteenth celebrations. The barbecues and fish fries woven into Black culture helped shape American cuisine.

  • Brittney Melton
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  Despite new challenges, Juneteenth event organizers are unbowed

  Organizers of Juneteenth celebrations across the U.S. tell NPR how they're feeling this year. And NPR presents a reading of the Emancipation Proclamation.

  • Taylor Haney
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  Seattle celebrates Juneteenth with Black culture ‘unapologetically on display'

  Juneteenth celebrates the end of slavery in the United States. The tradition began in 1865, when enslaved African Americans in Texas received word, belatedly, of their emancipation. The celebrations have spread around the country, and in the wake of nationwide protests after George Floyd was killed in Minneapolis in 2020, the day became a federal holiday. Marcus Harrison Green is the founder of the South Seattle Emerald, a columnist with The Stranger, and co-host of the new podcast In the Meanwhile. He talked to KUOW’s Kim Malcolm about holiday celebrations here in Seattle.

  • Kim Malcolm
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  NAACP won't invite Trump to its national convention, breaking a 116-year tradition

  President Trump is the first U.S. president in 116 years that the NAACP hasn't invited to the annual convention. The group says Trump is attacking democracy and civil rights.

  • Kristin Wright

• Remembering Mother Emanuel, 10 years after racist attack on famed Charleston church

  Charleston, S.C., reflects on 10 years since a racially motivated attack on the historic Emanuel AME church. A white supremacist killed 9 Black worshippers in 2015 in hopes of starting a race war.

  • Debbie Elliott
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  What Trump's fixation on 'white genocide' in South Africa tells us about the U.S.

  How the false notion of "white genocide" traveled from the political fringes to the Oval Office. The week on Code Switch, we're talking to a reporter who was in the room during a meeting when President Trump pushed this conspiracy theory on the president of South Africa. And we're digging into what Trump's fixation on white South Africans tell us about anxieties over white replacement here in the U.S.

  • Christina Cala
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  Skulls once subject to racist study in Germany are laid to rest in New Orleans

  A memorial and jazz funeral honored 19 Black Americans, whose remains were recently repatriated from Germany where they were used for racial research in the late 1800s.

  • Alina Selyukh
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  A look at Indian American life highlights communities across the U.S.

  Photographer Kavya Krishna documented Indian American communities across the United States, highlighting the shared threads and regional differences.

  • Emily Bogle

• A father and son reflect on their conversations about race after George Floyd

  Black parents tell their children about the dangers of racism with "the talk." What has it been like since George Floyd's murder? NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with Ryan Ross and his son, Gavin.

  • Ayesha Rascoe

• At George Floyd Square, art and music help a community heal

  Musicians, poets and artists have shown up day after day to bring a livelier energy to the intersection in Minneapolis where George Floyd was killed five years ago this weekend. Hear how they're using the arts to try to heal.

  • Meg Anderson

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