Ann-Mary Spellman, Norwood, MA. Dear Michele, Thank you for your wonderful presentation at Boston College and for signing my book. A book that I will treasure forever and refer to for strength as I move forward in my career as a woman, in a mostly male environment. Thank you for the love and connectedness you […]
Leave grace space when talking race
Jon Stuckey, Mechanicsburg, PA. I learned my 6 words based on your lovely presentation this evening at Messiah College. Thank you for coming. And thank you for your important work.
Michele Norris & Jenee Desmond Harris, How we talk about race: What word choice says about identity
REPOST: MPR News How We Talk About Race: What word choice says about identity Mar 17, 2015 Michele Norris’ new Race Card Project encourages people to send in a postcard with six words that deal with how we talk about race and identity. Norris joined MPR News’ Kerri Miller along with Vox race, law and […]
The Grace of Silence makes, The Black Lives Matter reading list: Books to change the world
REPOST: http://www.mprnews.org/story/2015/02/07/books-black-lives-matter The Black Lives Matter reading list: Books to change the world Tracy Mumford · Feb 7, 2015 It was the middle of August in Ferguson, Mo. Protesters filled the street after the shooting death of Michael Brown. It had been a week of clashes, tear gas and calls for justice. The city seemed to […]
Harvard Kennedy School Shorenstein Center Announces Spring 2015 Fellows
REPOST From: shorensteincenter.org January 13, 2015 SHORENSTEIN CENTER ANNOUNCES SPRING 2015 FELLOWS The Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School is pleased to announce the appointment of their Spring 2015 Fellows. “The line-up of Shorenstein Fellows for the spring semester is a group of all-stars – every one of them,” […]
The Race Card Project Partners with PBS for “America After Ferguson”
We are excited to share our partnership with PBS to capture the reactions from “AMERICA AFTER FERGUSON” — a PBS television special moderated by Gwen Ifill. This PBS town hall meeting, moderated by PBS NEWSHOUR co-anchor and managing editor Gwen Ifill, explores the many issues brought into public discourse in the wake of Michael Brown’s death in Ferguson, […]
Michele Norris is an Alchemist.
…TEACH AND TALK ABOUT RACE TSWBAT BLOG by: ALEXANDRA B. REZNIK, WRITING & EDITING CONSULTANT October 2, 2014 Michele Norris is an alchemist. She transforms the stories and histories of those who experience and inflict the burden of racism, into the foundation of American individual experience and collective history. The atrocities of our past are not […]
THE RACE CARD PROJECT COMES TO MSU
THE RACE CARD PROJECT COMES TO MSU Contact: Jennifer Orlando During her Sept. 15 visit to Michigan State University as part of this year’s One Book, One Community program and Project 60/50, award-winning journalist and NPR-contributor Michele Norris talked about her memoir “The Grace of Silence” and launched the MSU version of The Race Card […]
SPJ honors Norris for exceptional service to journalism
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 7/23/2014 Contacts: Chad Hosier, SPJ Awards Coordinator, (317) 920-4791, chosier@spj.org Taylor Carlier, SPJ Communications Coordinator, (317) 920-4785, tcarlier@spj.org INDIANAPOLIS – The Society of Professional Journalists is pleased to honor Michele Norris as a Fellow of the Society. It is the highest honor given by the Society and is awarded for extraordinary contribution […]
A Peabody for The Race Card Project
The Race Card Project Receives Peabody Honor Respected Journalist and Author Michele Norris Grateful for Recognition and the Opportunity for Dialogue that the Award Provides (Washington D.C./April 4, 2014) – The Race Card Project received a prestigious George Foster Peabody Award for excellence in electronic communications for turning a pejorative phrase into a productive and […]
Norris sparks conversations on race relations
BY EMILY STURGEON / ON APRIL 3, 2014 AT 12:19 AM / In an explanation of her work exploring race relations in America, Michele Norris said it is important to spark national dialogue about the still-relevant topic of race, even if it is with just six words. Norris, a renowned radio journalist and former host […]
NPR journalist to deliver Blackburn lecture
REPOST FROM: IN NEWS / BY EMILY WILLIAMS / ON APRIL 2, 2014 AT 12:00 AM / National Public Radio host and author Michele Norris will speak about race in America on Wednesday as a part of the Blackburn Institute’s Frank A. Nix lecture series. Norris, who previously hosted the NPR news show “All Things […]
Race Card Project creates new type of conversation
JESSE WASHINGTON— Dec. 1, 2012 She asked for just six words. Michele Norris, the National Public Radio host, was starting a book tour for her memoir, which explored racial secrets. Sensing a change in the atmosphere after the election of the first black president, and searching for a new way to engage and listen, Norris […]
Crossing the Racial Divide, Marietta, GA
REPOST: Story by Patricia Templeton One Church was founded by slave owners, the other by former slaves. On a recent cold, wet winter night their spiritual descendants crossed the divide that separated their ancestors and came together to share a meal, to talk, and to listen to a national journalist tell the story on conversations about […]
Torn apart, still blessed by forgiveness.
Alejandro Comellas Iowa City, IA Is there a balance between “The Grace of Silence” and “the grace of timing”. If you would have known at an earlier age, what you know now, would you still be the same person?
It sucks being black in America
Charles Long Birmingham, AL Submitted via: NPR’s Talk of the Nation I am a 52 year old white man from Birmingham, Al. I had the opportunity to meet Michele at the 16th Street Baptist Church when she was promoting her book “The Grace of Silence”. The more I learn about life in America for African […]
Michele Norris’ address at Sacramento State’s Convocation
REPOST: https://www.youtube.com/user/SacStateVideo Oct 20, 2011 Michele Norris’ acclaimed memoir, “The Grace of Silence,” is Sacramento State’s One Book selection for the 2011-12 academic year. Norris, one of the hosts of National Public Radio’s “All Things Considered,” began the book as an analysis of race in the Obama era. When she realized that discussions about race […]
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