The Fire Still Burning

Code Switch

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Society & Culture

4.6 • 14.5K Ratings

🗓️ 30 December 2020

⏱️ 47 minutes

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If 2020 has taught us anything, it's that history informs every aspect of our present. So today we're bringing you an episode of NPR's history podcast, Throughline. It gets into some of the most urgent lessons we can learn from James Baldwin, whose life and writing illuminate so much about what it would really mean for the United States to reckon with its race problem.

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0:00.0	Hi, Code Switchers.
0:01.6	Shrine here.
0:02.7	If you listen to the show a lot,
0:04.6	one of the things you hear me say a lot is it's complicated.
0:09.3	And that's because the stories we tell have a lot of nuance.
0:11.8	They're messy and challenging,
0:13.5	and they force us to think in different ways.
0:15.8	Way too often, stories about people of color,
0:18.6	strip all that nuance out, and they just flatten us.
0:22.5	The Code Switch team works hard to give these stories the dimensions
0:25.8	and complexity that they deserve.
0:28.4	And one of the reasons we're able to tell stories like this
0:31.2	is because of support from our listeners.
0:34.2	First of all, thank you for listening.
0:36.4	And if hearing the kinds of stories and perspectives
0:38.8	we bring on Code Switch has been meaningful to you,
0:41.6	I'm asking you to support your local public radio station.
0:45.6	Your donation makes programs like this
0:48.0	and all the other podcasts you love possible.
0:51.0	You can do that by going to donate.npr.org.
0:56.6	Slash Code Switch.
0:59.0	Donate.npr.org slash Code Switch.
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