Editor's Note: PBS has partnered with Mercy Street's historical consultants to bring fans the Mercy Street Revealed blog. Audrey P. Davis is Director of the Alexandria Black History Museum in ...

'Code-switching' was originally coined as a linguistic term for the ways in which bilingual people engage with language. It describes bilingual speakers alternating between literal linguistic codes in ...

Vice President Kamala Harris ruffled some feathers when she appeared to adopt a different tone or accent with a crowd than she had previously during her recent campaign trip to Detroit to talk about ...

Editor's note: This week's edition of "Hey Wait Just One Second" is written by a guest columnist. In 1937, under the leadership of dictator Rafael Trujillo, the Dominican Republic carried out a mass ...

The earliest memory I recall code-switching, I definitely didn’t know I was code-switching. My brother and I had been friends ...

A Harris Poll from December 2023 reveals that the workplace politics of code-switching are both complicated and prevalent, particularly among Black and other employees of color. A Harris Poll from ...

In 2018, I decided to break up with code-switching. I had code-switched for as long as I could remember as a way to navigate white spaces and spaces that were not intended for me. For me, it was a ...

King-Schreifels is a contributor for TIME. Society In the spring of 2020, in the aftermath of the killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Ahmaud Arbery, co-hosts Shereen Marisol Meraji and Gene ...