On June 1, the Code Switch podcast reached a noteworthy milestone: it hit No. 1 on Apple’s podcast chart, which tracks the top audio shows in the U.S.
each day. But Shereen Marisol Meraji, who co-hosts the podcast alongside Gene Demby, was feeling conflicted about the achievement.
In recent days, protests across the country following the killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and Ahmaud Arbery had reignited a conversation about racism in the United States.
As Americans, particularly white Americans, began to reflect on their role in fostering discrimination, lists circulated online with the names of books to read, movies to watch and podcasts to listen to.