Race is like a “superbug”

Severine Bates
Morris, MN

Like a superbug, you think you have eradicated it and then it comes back.

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General Eric Holder, Modern day civil rights challenges
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Who Will Us Be? with Anand Giridharadas, Eric Liu, Michele Norris, Monica Lozano & Paul Taylor

Yes I'm tobacco-pickin white trash

Michele Norris steps away from NPR to grow The Race Card Project.

Michele Norris & John Legend in Ferguson for, Shining a Light: A Concert for Progress on Race in America.

In Conversation with Ta-Nehisi Coates at AtlanticLive New York Ideas 2015

Seeing New York’s Invisible Children, New York Ideas 2015

Ta-Nehisi Coates reads from his new book in conversation with Michele Norris at Lannan Foundation lecture in Santa Fe

NPR's Morning Edition features: 'My Name Is Jamaal ... I'm White'

Gwen's Take: Race, Morning Coffee & The Race Card Project

Michele Norris & Jenee Desmond Harris, How we talk about race: What word choice says about identity

The Grace of Silence makes, The Black Lives Matter reading list: Books to change the world

Harvard Kennedy School Shorenstein Center Announces Spring 2015 Fellows

Norris brings The Race Card Project to Syracuse University

Ferguson Should Be More Than a Moment

Johns Hopkins University-A dialogue about diversity with Michele Norris

Norris speaks about race in America

The Race Card Project Partners with PBS for America After Ferguson

90.5 WESA- NPR Journalist Michele Norris Talks Race in America

Michele Norris is an Alchemist.

THE RACE CARD PROJECT COMES TO MSU

SPJ honors Norris for exceptional service to journalism

Is It Racist to Ask People Where They're From?

Invitation to a Hanging: Listen to the Interview

A Peabody for The Race Card Project

Pro-Publica: Segregation Now

The Race Card Project Teams up with ProPublica

Michele Norris leads learning opportunity

Norris sparks conversations on race relations

NPR journalist to deliver Blackburn lecture

Grand Rapids Community College Social Sciences Department sits down with Michele Norris.

Brooklyn Museum Joins The Race Card Project

NPR's Michele Norris Talks Race With Two Marietta Churches

40 years celebrating MLK at E Madison’s Mt. Zion

Race Card Project creates new type of conversation

Washtenaw students use The Race Card Project to confront bullying

Race card project spurs discussion

Cascade Engineering Race Card Project

Crossing the Racial Divide, Marietta, GA

Michele Norris' address at Sacramento State's Convocation
Peabody Award
Recent Race Cards

Did you grow up wearing shoes?

Blinded grandfather gave granddaughter excellent vision

This sideboard was built by slaves

I don't consider you a Hispanic.

Borderlands born. Always illegal. Always home.

Pale skinned but black don't fit.

What am I supposed to say?

A community with similar life experiences

Forced me to see broader humanity.

Life's, Short, So, Talk, Is, Cheap

Life is Beautiful Don't Stop Living

Yes, I was born in Detroit.

Misery’s voice spoke directly to me.

I breathe life into them, bagpipes.

Endowed by birth, merited by action.

I'm afraid of muggers and police

Multi-Racial means having a fluid Identity

Trying to Navigate, Willing to Fight

You're Mexican? But you look white

Another way to set ourselves apart

I'm not white, I'm peachy-pink.

Why do we have black communities?

Stop racism by not speaking it.

I'm one of the rare ones.

I'm tired of walking on eggshells.

We are all of the human race.

I am white and I'm happy.

Evening I'm mixed I'm still black

What will you tell your kids?

My parents, grandparents and ancestors, where European

What? But you don't look Cuban!

Don't ask me why I'm single

My racist relatives don't define me

I'm an Eastern European Ashkenazic Jew

White privilege? More like white guilt.

Nobody really knows the stories underneath.

Why Can't I Like Rap Music

Only you can command today's change!

What has our country come to?

My Black IS Beautiful

My family is of mixed cultures

They Say I'm Black and White

I am white and I'm proud

I know I'm well spoken, surprised?

I look white but I'm hispanic

It's not a RACE to win

Image, Color, Race wont deifine us

Losing faith in the human race

I am cautious about who I date

Not all Asians look the Same

Why Does My Race Cause Fear

I Will Fight Against The Odds

Si se puede the famous quote.

1/2 white 1/2 Mexican. I am equal

Shouting: No Chinese! But,... I'm not.

Why I Choose To Use Other

Roots. Rhyme. Family Time. Future

Generic Brown is my passport everywhere.

We have a future you see

Cafe con leche; side of bagel

My past didn't define my future

The young are not naturally prejudiced.

See me for who I am

ChopChop models are mostly mixed race.

Crenchaw climbs Denali realizes King's dream

Born: segregation Lifetime: integration Future: appreciation

Young Bearded White Male...ehh

I don't know my Native language.

Kindergartner fearing my future interracial marriage

Innocence lost, families shattered, lives changed

Grow like the fields surrounding us.

I'm the future, can't you see?

To boldly go...guess the rest

School integration enriched my white life.

Don't whisper. I can still hear you.

Wrong race, Wrong day for fun

I thought you couldn't speak English!

Not wanting to deny my roots

May look different, may think same

Making fun of Asians is not fun

Asian Americans are perceived as foreigners.

Be who you want to be.

We matter because of our SOULS

Are you the maintenance guy

Six humans running Lincoln Memorial steps

Your husband's black? But you're Asian.

Tired of saying that we matter.

Si Senor! I am US citizen

New option at doctors - Eastern European

Guilted to guilt because I'm white.
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