Why so magaling? Let’s go uwi na! Let’s make tusok-tusok the fish balls. Will you divert your attention if you hear these words from friends, or, let’s say, from someone you don’t know? Probably, yes.

As one of the few Black women in the corporate offices where she worked, Regina Lawless took pains to blend in. She donned conservative blazers and low-wedge heels and tucked her hair in a wig instead ...

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 ...

"Every single one of us has our own understanding about code-switching. In my world, it's the code-switching of my gender, of how I express myself with my ethnicity. And sometimes, you know, sometimes ...

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 ...

Kamala Harris has range. She can grill nominees for the Supreme Court or meet with foreign dignitaries, then pivot to hosting a Diwali celebration or dancing enthusiastically alongside an HBCU-styled ...

We switch between slang, dialect and technical jargon throughout our day – depending on the situation we find ourselves in. It sounds banal, but there’s even a specialist term for this phenomenon: ...

Code-switching may be a survival strategy but ‘culture coding’ can be a superpower Code switching prevents people from feeling like they can be themselves, but culture coding is a heightened form of ...

For many people of color living in the United States, code-switching has become an automated survival tool, something so ingrained in daily life that it often goes unnoticed. While the term ...

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 ...