This is Tom Hanks. Do you know an undiscovered musician who deserves a break?

Well, we have an idea for them. NPR Music is holding a tiny desk contest to find one great unsigned musician

to play the iconic Tiny Desk Concert series in two of the United States with NPR Music.

All you have to do is shoot a video of your musical act playing an original song behind a desk

and submit it by January 29th. Learn more at npr.org slash Tiny Desk Contest.

What's good, y'all? So before we get started this week, we have a favorite ask.

We want to know how you're feeling about race relations in America as Donald Trump prepares to settle in to the White House.

So if you could just take a few minutes to call us and tell us 202-836-7703

and who knows, we might just air your message on an upcoming episode of the Code Switch Podcast.

All right, cool. On to the show.

You're listening to Code Switch. I'm Shireen Marisol Maraji.

And I'm Jean Demby. Hi, I'm Richard Blanco.

The fifth in our group, poet in US history. The youngest, first Latino and gay person to serve in such a role.

And this is the third and final conversation in our series on President Obama's racial legacy.

So the inauguration was January 21st of 2013, that year.

The whole ceremony, there's just something so sacred about it.

And you feel like you're just part of something really so much, so much bigger than yourself.

And there I was, a little Cuban gay kid who grew up in a suburb of Miami suddenly addressing the whole nation.

One son rose on us today, kindled over our shores.

And since of gratitude, it overcame me.

Gratitude for my parents, my grandparents, and all their hard work and sacrifices as immigrants, as exiles.

And in some ways, I felt like I was part of a story that they began a long time ago.

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