Meet B.A. Parker — our new co-host!

Code Switch

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Society & Culture

4.6 • 14.5K Ratings

🗓️ 27 July 2022

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Fam: We finally have a new co-host of the Code Switch podcast! And we're just a *tiny bit* excited. So today on the show, we're introducing you to B.A. Parker. Gene chats with Parker about who she is, what drew her to the race beat, and how her encyclopedic knowledge of Oscars trivia will be an asset to Code Switch listeners.

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0:00.0	What's good, y'all?
0:00.8	You're listening to Cold Switch from NPR.
0:02.2	I'm Gene Demby.
0:03.7	All right, so boom.
0:06.9	Here's a couple of years ago,
0:07.8	I was in the house cleaning up and wasting time
0:11.0	listening to the podcast, you know, as you do.
0:13.6	And I got sucked into this story on this American life.
0:17.6	This story was called The Miseducation of Castlemont High.
0:20.8	And it was about a bunch of high school students in Oakland
0:24.9	going on a school field trip in 1994,
0:27.3	which, okay, what's the story there?
0:29.4	But that filter went sideways, like real, real sideways,
0:33.0	very quickly, like national scandals, sideways.
0:38.5	So in the story you have about 70 or so students
0:42.4	who all descend on a stately old movie theater.
0:44.8	All these kids are black and Latino,
0:47.2	but the other theater patrons, they were white
0:50.5	and they were old.
0:52.0	And the students can see the other patrons looking at them.
0:56.6	Some of the other patrons were asking,
0:58.5	why they were there, like, you know,
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