However, the way he handled that was a lesson for me in the art of code-switching—and it made a much bigger impact. Code-switching can inadvertently reinforce stereotypes about Black people.

Code-switching is described as the ways in which we change how we express ourselves around different groups of people but why do we do it and is it bad? Award-winning speaker, best-selling author ...

"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 ...