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Shereen Marisol Meraji Shereen Marisol Meraji tries to find the humor and humanity in reporting on race for the NPR Code Switch team. Her stories center on the real people affected by the issues, not just experts and academics studying them. Those stories include a look at why a historically black college in West Virginia is 90 percent white, to a profile of the most powerful and most difficult-to-target consumer group in America: Latinas. Prior to her time with Code Switch, Meraji worked for t...

Rooshad Shroff, at Rooshad Shroff Gallery, Fort For MGW 2021, architect Rooshad Shroff has teamed up with artist Tanya Goel for Obverse, a limited edition embroidered chairs. Speaking to AD India, Shroff explains, "Obverse celebrates embroidered furniture and its intricate technique. Tanyas complementary artwork pays tribute to Indian craftsmanship. It was like translating a painting into embroidery form." This is Shroffs second collaboration with Goel after last years The Gyaan Project, a char...

Hansi Lo Wang (he/him) is a national correspondent for NPR based in New York City. He reports on the people, power and money behind the 2020 census. Wang

People around the world watched in shock on Wednesday as thousands of Trump supporters stormed the Capitol building, descending on the halls of Congress

Leah Donnella is an editor on NPR's Code Switch team, where she helps produce and edit for the Code Switch podcast, blog, and newsletter. She created

Better Things on Hulu—if you have children, this is a must.  The last book I read was Mistress of the Ritz by Melanie Benjamin, which takes place during the German occupation of Paris. And Ronan Farrow’s book  Catch and Kill. I also enjoyed Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens, and Stoned: Jewelry, Obsession, and How Desire Shapes the World by Aja Raden—a must-read for anyone in the jewelry business. But my absolute favorite TV is escapism, and I’ve already watched all the episod...

What is your typical day like now? Oof, it really depends! Definitely one of the challenges of this time has been a lack of consistent routine. I try to do an online yoga class (thank you, Yoga with Adriene!) once a day. I have my wonderful dog/fur-child Mia Belle to take care of, so we walk at least three, if not four times a day. We live close to Riverside Park, so it has been lovely seeing the seasons change. Oftentimes Ill have some sort of video to put on tape, and that requires a lot of r...

Spotify to stream NPR podcasts around the world UPI News Service, 12/16/2020  Spotify announced Wednesday it has signed a deal to distribute NPR podcasts to its 320 million subscribers around the world. ADVERTISEMENT The deal expands a 2018 agreement that distributed NPR content to Spotify users in the United States. These shows will now be available Spotify worldwide: Wow in the World, 1A, Ask Me Another, Believed, The Best of Car Talk, Code Switch, Consider This from NPR, Embe...

Font Size The pro-Biden media is obsessing over the tiniest kerfuffle imaginable. Jill Biden likes to be addressed as “Dr. Jill,” based on her 2007 Doctor of Education degree. We’ve known about her insistence on this appellation since at least 2009, because servile journalists often indulge it. It’s harmless to call her Dr. Jill. But the elites exploded in fury when The Wall Street Journal published an op-ed by Joseph Epstein, who professed this honorific “sounds and fe...

Reveal. A trained audio engineer, Arablouei spent most of his early twenties in recording studios. He contributed sound design and music for films and commercials, including the IMAX trailer for 300: Rise of an Empire. Hes written music for many award-winning podcasts including "Los Cassettes del Exilio" ( Radio Ambulante) and the "All Work. No Pay" episode of Reveal, which won the Society of Professional Journalists Sigma Delta Chi award for investigative reporting. Born in Iran, Arablouei em...