Karen Grigsby Bates
Stories
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Race & Identity
The Way The U.S. Census Tracks Race Has Changed Over Time
Over the years, the United States census boxes indicating race or ethnicity have changed.
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Race & Identity
B. Smith, Restaurateur And Lifestyle Icon, Dies At 70 Of Early Onset Alzheimer's
Born Barbara Elaine Smith, she began her career as a model and went on to gain fame and influence as a restaurateur, celebrity chef, lifestyle doyenne and entertainer.
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Movies
Tracing A Century-Long Tradition Of Chinese American Film
Chinese filmmakers began making movies about the lives of the Chinese in America since World War I. And there's a direct line from them to some of Sunday's critically acclaimed Chinese American films.
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Arts & Life
Author Susan Straight Takes Us 'In The Country Of Women'
In her new memoir, Straight tells the story of the women in her family—her Swiss-German blood relatives and her African American, Indigenous and Creole in-laws who crossed the U.S. to settle in Calif.
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Books
The Code Switch Holiday Book Guide
A book is still a perfect gift. So, because we're betting that some people have a bit of the procrastinator in them, here's a Code Switch gift to you: Our list of books that stuck with us this year.
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Food
The Layers Of Lasagna
What's old is new. From ingredients to techniques, chefs are playing with that most traditional of comfort foods: lasagna. We dig in to what's between the layers from nonna to nouveau.
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National
Former Fort Worth Officer Charged With Murder In Fatal Shooting Of Woman In Her Home
Aaron Dean fired through the window of Atatiana Jefferson's home after responding to a call from a neighbor.
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Actress Diahann Carroll Dies At 84
Diahann Carroll died Friday at 84. Carroll was a Broadway, night club, and Hollywood singer and actress when NBC asked her to star in the sitcom Julia, as the first non-stereotyped Black character.
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Arts & Life
Toni Morrison, Whose Soaring Novels Were Rooted In Black Lives, Dies At 88
Morrison was the author of Beloved, Song of Solomon and The Bluest Eye. She was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
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National
100 Year Later, Chicago Examines What The Red Summer Means To The City And Its People
A hundred years ago this week, a bloody race riot erupted in Chicago — one of several that occurred in the U.S. after WWI. Historians and an eye witness discuss the deadly riot and what came from it.