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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

Pale skinned but black don't fit.

I breathe life into them, bagpipes.

Hispanic Or Not I Achieve Dreams

Gringo, you can't teach my child!!

Why Do You Look So Exotic?

What will you tell your kids?

I am whom my father is!

Often Ashamed of Being White Male

NO MORE WEAVES FOR ME FOLKS!

Don't ask me why I'm single

We are all of the human race.

Same blood same flesh same love

Life is Beautiful Don't Stop Living

Another way to set ourselves apart

Ignorance and Fear are racism's parents.

Transracial adoptive family = living multiple realities

She's White in a Black body....

Puerto Ricans are legal US citizens

Father failed his brown bag test.

Not wanting to deny my roots

Blame the Founding Fathers, not me

On money and color I thrive.

Just want credit it is due.

Hey Do You Need an Interpreter?

Speak Spanish Poorly? Then Don't Speak.

What You See Is Not Complete

Tail the black guy buying moscato.

This guy named Ish can Fish

Indo-Pak American. Sounds like camping gear.

Police harassed undercover cop wearing hoodie.

You have to choose. Which one?

Just one never happened friendship story

Let my struggles refine me.

It's easier to say I'm White

Even when you're not… you are.

Being called sassy is not complementary.

Indian American South Asian Desi American

Discarded like rubbish and labeled irrelevant

Whitefish Bay white school white Church

I find myself profiling people often.

Computer Science CEO, you own this?

Israel's Gay Latin Jew from USA.

Can Anyone Believe I Love Everyone?

Code-switching: an asset, not a crime.

All-American Girl: Minority at Work

No One Traces Ancestors Back (to) America

White child calls black man Dad

A Gift We Are Afraid Of

Educating Myself on My Own Privilege

I have the gift of choice.

Identity is fluid; context is everything.

This doesn't make you a better person.

Being gay has taught me compassion.

Use privilege to give a voice to others

I don't see my color....sometimes

Stereotypes: Wake-up Everybody!: Analyze Your Thinking

Good hair is well maintained hair.

Interculturalist. Asian-American. Woman. Mother. Writer.

Good fences make good neighbors.

(There are) Black people who like metal music

Soul, compassion and intellect are color-blind.

My mother boiled the girl's utensils.

Half White, Half Hispanic, Full Human

I am afraid of offending you.

Otosan, please teach us your language.

I am not the only one.

Youre so exotic, said white guy.

I am a proud Mexican American.

Gay and black is truly me.

Miles, Duke, Ella. Music conquers race.

10 Mile Move Flipped the Grid

I'm black, not from the Carribean

Usually white babies aren't so cute

I WON'T ruin your blood line

Together we can do it better

Ashamed to be a White American

Please don't ask me to jig.

We did not choose our race.

Two languages, Three dialects, Three cultures

Let Music Bring Us Together Again

Seeking the descendents of Saulsbury Brooks

Oh, you are together? My apologies.

Sheltered friends. Life is not effortless.

Privileged. No choice in the matter.

Tired of being blamed for everything

Grateful for Painful Cultureshock Down South

Racism a challenge in Ireland too!

People think I live in a Pueblo

We integrate politically but segregate socially

Get back in the field n*****
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