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We are here to do right

You're Pretty For A Black Girl

Stop questioning if I’m really Black

Cute , Can I touch your hair?

Strong, intelligent, soulful, active, charismatic, stable

Who benefits from a permanent underclass?

My Mind Isn't Inferior To Yours

Joy is the armor of truth

I am not a MAIL-IN-BRIDE

I am stronger than you think.

Grown through, what I've been through

Mixed race. Belongs everywhere and nowhere.

No, where are you really from?

My family's machismo is killing me.

Don't think I'm like you, I'm not

You must be mixed with something

She’s my mom, not my nanny.

Ashamed [race] is my first impression

I know that I'm white passing.

Labels be damned, i am me

I am not who you think

So Much Diversity, Yet No Representation

The media does not represent Arabs

We Don't Eat Tacos On Tuesday

You Must Be Mixed with Something.

I can't leave without my receipt.

Retail manager. Shoplifters mostly black. Why?

Raised in Spanish. Think in English.

There is only one Human Race.

Don't know how to fix this.

Not all of us are privledged

Homecoming with best friend. You dating?

I'm not white, but I'm white.

DNA 99.9% same. Humans are dumb.

Had to always prove myself better.

Cleaning myself to look like her

You look less…exotic…than expected.

Native Education: Moving beyond the Asterisk*

No. I'm not your average face.

Playing by everyone's rules is exhausting

Riding on a train crying, mommy braiding.

She's nice for a black woman!

Where did you get them from?

You're basically a white boy now

The skin I'm in is resilient.

I Am Shattered Pieces Scattered Black

White and some kind of Asian

Instinct brings Hate, Empathy brings Love

I'm brown but, I'm not hispanic.

African American woman who loves people.

Love and learn from one another

Don't turn your back to it

White, Veteran, Nurse, Single, Funny, Scooterist.

My great-grandparents fled pogroms in Ukraine.

Am I black, white? Can't decide.

I'm too light, yet too dark

White people don't season their chicken

Marching while white doesn't declare solidarity.

CALL US NEPALESE NOT THE INDIANS

Intelligent despite assumptions, Yes I can!

The Past Doesn’t Determine Our Future

White, female, and scared to speak

DNA results: my body is colonial.

I don't know where I fit

Aren't we all a little complicit?

ALLY, BUT LOOK LIKE YOUR ENEMY

Stealth lesbian: not what you expected.

Cultural appropriation. Bogus issue. Get real.

White male trying to be accountable.

Not colorblind, just failed to see.

Why is everything always about race?

Small distinction blown out of proportion

Basic white girl, who's not white.

Like money, it's fiction made real

Asian and afraid to go out

So many racists look like me

Embarrassed that I'm frightened by black boys

Adobo Beef Stew Rice Potatoes: Dinner

They assume my wife's the nanny.

By protecting her, I'm oppressing her.

Bi-racial daughter draws Black self portraits.

Two Black Lesbian Daughters. Say What?!

I have been alone among many

Uniquely Made, The American Girl Today

She`s so beautiful, is she mixed?

Being conspicuous is a daily struggle

Adoptive parents see teachers judge brown

Same finish line; different starting points.

The cultural struggle is truly endless.

Sorry, this AMERICAN sings it better.
In The News

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Why corporate America is declaring independence from the GOP

Thanks to covid-19, the age of biometric surveillance is here

The royal family saga is a mirror of America

America suffered an unnecessary loss during the Super Bowl

America is fragile this Inauguration Day. Our power rests in the ability to pick ourselves up.

Believe what you saw. With all this country’s white grievance, it was inevitable.

How a WNBA assist helped Raphael Warnock win a Senate seat

How Just Six Words Can Spark Conversation About Race in America

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
SPOTLIGHT SCHOOL

"We are seventh graders at High Tech Middle Media Arts striving for change, so silence is not an option."
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