Book of the Day

In 'Friends and Family,' a police encounter strains a friendship between two moms

I think Nora comes into this thinking that love and kindness and openheartedness and her wealth can almost lift Nathan, her adopted black son, out of race, right, into class.

Code Switch

Jay-Z has F-you money. Is he saying it to the wrong people? | Code Switch

The people who saved up for months to be able to afford to go to the concert at Yankee Stadium are somehow being shamed for having expectations as consumers. Meanwhile, they're all cheering while hearing this.

Code Switch

Why the World Cup is race and class all the way down

Race and class and identity like always seem to be right there on the surface at the World Cup every 4 years. Like, maybe more so than any other sporting event.

It's Been a Minute

What to expect when you're expecting racism

Part of the punchline of the book is that black people can't purchase an escape from racism. We can't buy ourselves out of anti-blackness in the US. Moreover, black people know this.

It's Been a Minute

Why don't your neighbors pick up their dog’s poop?

If you see your neighborhood as an amenity rather than like as a place in which like many people live and have to live coexisting lives, including people who are very different from you, make different amounts of money, people who look differently than you, then like that is a political perspective that is, you know, projected onto the world, and the dog is just a lens at looking at it.