Hey, consider this listeners, it's Mary the Wies Kelly, and we have got a weekend bonus edition for you.

It is sad to say, but the amazing Cherine Mary Saul Maraji of NPR's Code Switch podcast has moved on to the world of academia.

You will hear more about that later.

Before she left us, she reported one more episode.

Actually, the reporting is from 20 years ago, but it is a story worth returning to as you will also hear.

So here are the hosts of Code Switch, Jean D'Embi, and for one last time,

Cherine Mary Saul Maraji.

Just the quick heads up, y'all, the following podcast contains explicit language.

I'm Cherine Marie-Sole Maraji.

I'm Jean D'Embi, and this is Code Switch.

From NPR, and if y'all don't know this yet, it is time for me to tell you that I am stepping away from

co-hosting and senior producing Code Switch. I've been doing this for five years now, a little over five years now,

and it's not because I don't love Eugene, and I don't love what I do, because this has been

the honor of my life, and I'm not going away forever, people.

Code Switch is going to be a home for my journalism.

I've been obsessed with questions of racial identity and belonging and language loss

since I can remember obsessed.

I'm still into novel, but all is still into novel.

Well, right now, let me make it more real for you. Right now, I'm talking to you from a closet

in Cambridge where I'm doing a journalism fellowship, the Neiman Journalism Fellowship.

Look at the come-up, though. You went in a closet in LA, now you're a closet at Harvard.

Is that a come-up? I don't know. I miss LA. We're here, you know, a bunch of us thinking big thoughts

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