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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

View perceived differences as valuable opportunity.

Mexican girls don't need a Quinceañera

Expansive Roots, Exquisite Tongues, Diversity Perpetuated

I'm caramel, you're peach, we're sweet!

Am I too White to Help?

Confederate flags everywhere. Scares me immensely.

Sweet, intelligent, handsome, loved black man

Your name doesn't match your face

Neighborhood party we were not invited

Indian who was clueless about race

No. I'm not your average face.

That's so typical of you people.

Bicultural and Bilingual should be enough.

Please don't ask me to jig.

Own history, own America, our turn.

We are all just people

Deep Inside we're all dusty bones

We're all different, but the same

Touched. Terrified, Empathetic. Praying for change.

My creativity eludes definition by color

Only one’s sexuality trumps skin color.

America, I'm not feeling the love

Does being 'white' make me racist?

I'm A Human, Not A Fruit

You remind me of my mother.

Joy is the armor of truth

Valhalla Awaits Me When I Die.

Yes I take up space, and?

You may not know you’re racist.

I'm not your contestant to judge

Two worlds, where do I belong?

You're from Africa? But you're white?

We are all in this together

Race will always matter in America

Colour? All you need is love

Χιος to Hughes...we’re all immigrants

My Family Well Kept Secret Revealed

Why won't we just turn colorblind?

Witnessing humanity’s evolution: hate to love (?).

Growing up in America as other.

Adopting AA baby started needed conversations

18, college Junior, and only beginning

No eye contact because I'm white.

2007: Smuggled out of Eldoret, Kenya

Progress? We've been running in place.

Black Woman Who Loves to Swim!

My race isn't who I am

Not a thing. Just geography + time.

My strength (as a) blackman, doesn't have to be your weakness

I am a proud American man

Married, male, 65, grey, overweight, invisible.

White Baby Boomer Low Wage Slave.

Jewish American princess I am not.

Who's directing? It's HER? No Way!!

Apparently, I'm Jesus, or a terrorist.

Japanese bred and raised, Black heritage

Our hearts are the same, right?

Whitefish Bay white school white Church

My skin is not my culture.

Mississippi Freedom summer changed my life

Adopted daughter learns what Yellow means

Drowning in generalizations; floating on truth

Leave identity issues to other people

Fifty years of hope still unfulfilled.

I'm seventy two, and race tired!

Finding race is like coming home.

Torn. Frijoles charros or apple pie?

Discuss race fearlessly to unite people

Never Visited the Country I Claim

I hide in my Anglo-Franco name.

Infertility Opens Your Eyes To Acceptance

You have a home? I don't.

Crazy Family Learning Acceptance Loving Life

Education is the key to change

Ginger is a root, not me

I am tired of explaining myself.

Wait till Grandma knows he's black

What's having an Asian baby like?

You're mixed with that hair, right?

I believe in the melting pot.

God painted me. He painted you.

Never right time Always right time

Race, the easiest way to discriminate.

You're not one of THOSE Asians.

Let me walk in your shoes

I get called Mexican a lot.

I am tired of being exotic!

Sharing stories connects and forever changes

Many fingers needed to hold tomorrow

Trying to classify my identity
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