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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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
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Recent Race Cards

Don't say you don't see color.

Race, forget it. Identity, embrace it.

Africans; unite, mobilise, prosper and LEAVE!!

So much work to be done.

I'm white, but I dream, too.

I have stereotypes I'm not prejudiced.

I feel powerless to intact change

I just want to be me

If you hurt, I will listen.

I thought I was being funny

Turning away costs us almost everything

White people on TV aren't me.

Narrow Paths Dirt Roads Soul Soles

I'm Asian, not invisible, not disgusting.

I see it, but I'm tired

Cold Stares Warm Smiles Evens Out

DACA repealed...along with our humanity

Disasters do not discriminate. Recoveries do.

I suppose they'll all want dignity.

Not Racist, Not Privileged, Just White.

Loving another human being without judgement.

I am white, I am privileged.

Human heart dissolves all artificial boundaries.

I am walking inbetween multiple worlds.

Effortless indigenous in melanin we trust

They don't see me as human.........

Open to conversations, recognize my privilege

I don't see color

I think DIFFERENT should be Celebrated

I'm white, so get free pass

Don't judge me by my color

We're a diverse version of oneself

Why I Choose To Use Other

Don't straighten your hair, baby girl.

Yeah, but you're not BLACK black.

Russia? Never been, mom said, perplexed.

Why wasn't I taught this sooner?

Seasonal confusion; your problem not mine

Trying to Navigate, Willing to Fight

Soul Surfer is Light without color

Ni de aqui, ni de aya!

I really hate the word white.

First Generation means second is mediocre

Is it wrong to hate Mexicans?

Yankee child crossed South's colorline. Paid.

Remember kids, everybody's equal! - Third grade

The Day After The World Changes

Metis: but you don't know that.

Stealing the children from my womb

Not allowed together because of race.

My race is my constant companion.

Unintentionally privileged and intolerant by association.

I hadn't really thought about it

I'm Asian, but also an American.

Are you Italian or White?

We are all one human race

Colors are beautiful; they're not categories.

No One Traces Ancestors Back (to) America

Why bring up race so much?

Black Hair is good hair, period!

Indian Brown or Mexican Brown?

55 mph means you black man.

Grateful for the grace of friends.

Hapa: but always the wrong half.

We all have the same opportunities!

Black man loves fried chicken watermelon

I am Southern, not a racist.

Dwayne Fries; the other white Dwayne.

American is the most accurate label

Class hidden in sea of colors.

Humanity is the box I check

Girl, you are not black enough.

Why do white people fear us

Race can mean nothing, or everything.

Mexican Spanish American Female White Washed

Never be ashamed of your skin

They like you because you're white

Enslave whites like they enslaved us

Puerto Rico's Identity Crisis Defines Me.

Looks white but isn't white

My grandson is not an other!

The only race without a country

A foreigner in my childhood home

I'm afraid for my black child

He's not your son? Oh good!

From love - fear, (a) foreigner's view (on) racism.

For Me, Racism Started at Home

How could I live here if otherwise?

Segregation smolders silently: progressive city divided.

Three degrees, still remember stones thrown.
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