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General Eric Holder, Modern day civil rights challenges
In The News

Yes I'm tobacco-pickin white trash

Who Will Us Be? with Anand Giridharadas, Eric Liu, Michele Norris, Monica Lozano & Paul Taylor

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

I don't... but I really do.

Black and part of the solution.

I'll just call you Annie instead

White-skinned negro: community of one.

Ignorance of history, convenient or willful?

Busing: white girl, black schools, lonely

Adoptive parents see teachers judge brown

Norwegian with nappy hair doesn't fit.

I'm not that A+ Aisan student.

Racial stereotypes...killing mankind...hearts blind?

Speak Spanish? You don't look Mexican.

People of Quality Respect Race Equality

Russia? Never been, mom said, perplexed.

She's just not the right fit

Effortless indigenous in melanin we trust

Why wasn't I taught this sooner?

Our tears aren't for your consumption

Guess not. Ask. Accept. Question again.

White people on TV aren't me.

Boy From America's Heartland, Indian American

I hate being called a white boy

You're you. I'm me. We're beautiful!

I am more than a face

Biracial by birth, Black by choice

INDIVIDUALITY is what we ALL share.

My grandson is not an other!

I suppose they'll all want dignity.

Child of deaf mother, hearing world.

My son was crying for help

My mom and dad were wrong.

Mother refused to shop in Woolworth's.

Neighborhood watch: it starts with hello

I proudly own my multi-racial ancestry.

Who's that white boy talking to Ning?

Natives Can Have Curls Without Admixture

I've freed myself from being N*****

Hesci, hello, I am Poarch Creek.

Hispanic and I only speak English

I didn't know you are black

Are you my mother? Sí, mija.

I am not your take out menu.

Why'd you invite the white guy

Double consciousness denied me full comfortability

With kids, people don't separate us.

Teacher this is my home flag

Thirdculture and don't understand white culture!

So was she born in Africa?

Sick of being The White Girl

Mzungu: Kenyans say, white skin human heart

I thought your house would be big

The only white person here? (How does it feel)

Generic Brown is my passport everywhere.

Bangladeshi-British immigrant. Mom of all-American twins.

By protecting her, I'm oppressing her.

They only see the Asian half.

Privileged White Girl, Am I Really?

My fear exceeds yours, white people.

“Is there something on my forehead?”

Being Hispanic is a good experience

Still a threat to your security

Strength in pedigree proud of race

Black Girls Play Video Games Too

Square peg in a round hole

I'm surprised you speak so well.

I survived the white flight.

People of color--do I count?

Caring is not enough. Changing is.

Humility is the key to acceptance

They don't believe racial injustice exists.

Humility leads me out of denial

I am not wrong but just different

White people are not the enemy.

My disenfranchisement is a hate crime.

I'm a Bohemian refugee from Negroland.

Surprise surprise I was born here

Unity, as one stand together

I'm Black, I can't be racist

1 race, 7.5 billion names

Covering brown people? You're an advocate.

Drop the guilt, and become aware

Salad topped with melted American nightmare

Dichotomy matters AND full color spectrum.

I want to help, not hurt.

We matter because of our SOULS

Imagine not meeting strangers with guns.

Ask who not what I am

What nationality are you anyway?

How are you Latina and pale?

Free speaking teens, changing relational space?

Privileges/Restrictions regarded natural, not quite.
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