Gene Demby
Gene Demby is the co-host and correspondent for NPR's Code Switch team.
Before coming to NPR, he served as the managing editor for Huffington Post's BlackVoices following its launch. He later covered politics.
Prior to that role he spent six years in various positions at The New York Times. While working for the Times in 2007, he started a blog about race, culture, politics and media called PostBourgie, which won the 2009 Black Weblog Award for Best News/Politics Site.
Demby is an avid runner, mainly because he wants to stay alive long enough to finally see the Sixers and Eagles win championships in their respective sports. You can follow him on Twitter at @GeeDee215.
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A controversial article posted to the CrossFit Facebook page has led to a larger discussion about race. The majority of participants in the grueling and popular workout genre are white. Just how many people of color participate, though, is tough to say. -
The possibly disturbed attacker said he was going to "punch the next white person he saw," witnesses said. -
It might seem that members of minority groups never call out other members of the groups they belong to. But that's because we don't often hear each other's conversations. -
The number of Latinos enrolled in college has hit an all-time high, and it's part of a years-long trend.
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It was called "The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom." So what effects did the historic rally have on employment in the United States? -
Like protesters in so many social movements, a group of young immigration activists must try to move the conversation without going too far. -
Nicholas Peart, one of the plaintiff's in New York City's stop-and-frisk case, told StoryCorps about the first time he was stopped and searched by the police. -
The federal judge in New York City's closely watched stop-and-frisk trial issued a pointed ruling that alluded to police whistle-blowers, academic research and the Trayvon Martin case.
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Every time a controversy involving the slur bubbles up, someone calls for a ban on it. But would that even work? -
A new poll showed that many Americans still don't have any friends of another race. -
The bizarre Tawana Brawley case unfolded in a New York City riven by crime and racial animus. -
Harry Belafonte's spat with Jay Z is the latest skirmish in a decades-long debate over the social obligations of black celebrities. How we perceive black supercelebrities may be a Rorschach test for how we perceive the condition of black America at large.
