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General Eric Holder, Modern day civil rights challenges
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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

Racist parents from shame springs motivation

I descend from first American colonizers.

Honduras, rich culture and great potential

A proud American, unwanted in America...

Old Soul, White Skin, Human Race

Ashamed to Acknowledge the Black Side

Child of Pennsylvainia coal miners

Growing up as the minority in my elementary school.

Becoming myself not my birth giver

An Accent is a sign of Courage

Trait that assumptions are built upon

I'm a business oriented white kid.

Is It Racist to Abhor Ignorance?

Respectfulness earns your race-deserved respect.

What can I do?

I am proud of my accent

Native, Half White but still intelligible

White chocolate, black chocolate, both chocolate

We must learn to live together

Can you guess my race

White supremacy I win needs dismantiling

I did not know I’m biased

A Jew lost in this world

I am Hispanic enough for you!

How do you racially identify? HUMAN!

Skin Color Does Not Equal Worth

I'm the typical, big, white girl.

Proud Black Womanist Mother Scholar Activist

Without sight, we are just people.

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

I am a mutt and proud.

American Veteran College Graduate Still Black

Being Black and southern, educated engineer

From Kansas? How is the city?

Contrived for power, superiority, riches – dehumanizing.

Sensitivity doesn't make you less proud.

Veteran Patriot Still White Washed Wetback

Good Morning! But there's no response.

Why we hafta be Afro Anything?

You know why they chose you?

Ex-military, don't understand my country's culture.

I fight for Americans, whatever color

Not less Hispanic because I'm pale.

A straight white male supporting everyone

Finding my voice without silencing yours

I wasn't Asian. I became one.

I wonder what he's doing there?

Why Are We The Only White People?

Who invented the race card anyway?

Race? Culture? Do we know which?

Whitefish Bay white school white Church

This guy named Ish can Fish

My Family Well Kept Secret Revealed

What's the best Indian restaurant?

Actually, I speak English very well.

Cultures touching make new shared experiences

Can I say N****r around you?

Kids’ mother tongue isn’t their mother’s

Trying to Navigate, Willing to Fight

Being polite does not equal acceptance

My children jumpstarted my racial identity.

You can pass. Lifetime identity struggle.

The blood is the same color

Does her black baby doll offend?

“Our world” tainted by our past.

Race isn't real, but humans are.

I am more than my sexuality.

Not you, you're from the Caribbean

I'm black and so much more

My weird life with conservative parents

Start the conversation, even with youth!

Which one: sushi, hamburgers, or both?

My neighborhood was notorious for racism.

Dark skin woman; I love me

The experience of White African Americans

Equality isn't found using guilt trips

I'll experience this, hopefully they don't.

Your words do not offend me!

Cross street? Or smile? I'm sorry.

I am an undercover Mexican. - a coworker of mine who doesn't look Mexican

It's worse than you probably think

You came, you smiled, we loved

I will burn the house down.

The house I did not build

Lizzie's Journey from Plantation to Farm

I CAN speak English and Spanish!

Newspaper says 'Black youths' not 'kids.'

Blacks won't let me be friendly

A brokenness often neglected, never forgotten.

Western Michigan meets Korea near Chicago
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