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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There has been a strong backlash after two black men were arrested at a Philadelphia Starbucks for trespassing.
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The controversy continues over Starbucks, race and bias after a video went viral on social media this weekend. It shows an incident involving the police and two men at a location in downtown Philadelphia.
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The former House speaker is getting into the marijuana game, illustrating the ironies of the way many Americans think about weed, particularly when it comes to race. -
In 1968, Congress passed the Fair Housing Act, which made it illegal to discriminate in housing. Gene Demby of NPR's Code Switch explains why neighborhoods are still so segregated today.
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The law made it illegal to discriminate on the basis of race, color, disability, religion, sex, familial or national origin in housing. But since its passage, it has only been selectively enforced.
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The suspect in the Austin bombings has been described as "troubled" by police and media. NPR's Audie Cornish talks to Code Switch reporter Gene Demby about people's reluctance to call him a terrorist.
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The NCAA men's basketball tournament will bring in about $770 million in revenue this year. A writer argues that paying black student-athletes might have unforeseen consequences.
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Unarmed black people are much more likely than unarmed whites to be fatally shot by the police. A new study finds that that disparity gets wider in states with more racial segregation. -
Marvel's action movie Black Panther is a blockbuster. It has also become a totem and a rite of passage for African-Americans who see themselves in the director and cast.
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'Black Panther' new superhero epic has the biggest-ever budget of any Hollywood movie with a black cast, and is freighted with all the hopes and anxieties that come along with it.
