As you might have gathered from our blog's title, the Code Switch team is kind of obsessed with the ways we speak to each other. Every Monday in "Word Watch," we'll dig into language that tells us ...

The trial of George Zimmerman, accused of fatally shooting Trayvon Martin, inevitably and quickly devolved into a contest of who is more racist -- the victim or the accused? The question was ...

CNN had a remarkable discussion panel this weekend, thanks to the presence of George Zimmerman and Paula Deen in the news, in which the chyron read, "N WORD VS 'CRACKER': WHICH IS WORSE?" The question ...

Parents and students who saw the recording expressed concern about it. Parents and students in Georgia are dismayed that a white principal used the N-word while comparing it to a slur about white ...

Discovering the bigger racist, Kathleen Parker writes at the Washington Post, seems to be the real goal at the heart of the George Zimmerman trial. When Rachel Jeantel, friend of the late Trayvon ...

The leftist political commentator Hasan Piker said he was banned from Twitch on Monday. He wrote in a tweet that he was banned from the platform for saying "cracker." The term "cracker" is considered ...

Where does the slur "cracker" come from, anyway? It turns out it's pretty old. Like, Shakespeare old. As you might have gathered from our blog's title, the Code Switch team is kind of obsessed with ...