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Podcast: Code Switch
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Before the apps, people used newspapers to find love
Category: News & Politics
Duration: 00:37:48
Publish Date: 2024-02-14 11:57:36
Description: To celebrate the history of Black romance, Gene and Parker are joined by reporter Nichole Hill to explore the 1937 equivalent of dating apps — the personals section of one of D.C.'s Black newspapers. Parker attempts to match with a Depression-era bachelor, and along the way we learn about what love meant two generations removed from slavery.

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