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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

Fear is so hard to admit

Don't waste your time on college

Since when is female a different race?

At least I'm not a whiteboy

He Called Her: Saddle Tan Female

Three Strikes- Black, Deaf, and Female

I am a not an object

Female Chicana, not from Mexico/Philippenes

Overcoming obstacles does not mean privileged

Light, bright and damn near white.

Diversity is enriching but also frightening.

Die hard when you try hard

I'm Appalachian--it's an invisible ethnicity

People often hate what they covet.

People see my eyes, not heart.

Proud to be white fourteen eightyeight

That's so typical of you people.

The Hiroshimas were good Americans.

Why are people like me scared?

Black body language scares white people

Rural Alaska, six blacks, my family.

This country is such a beautiful place

It's not your fight, you're white.

I'm white but fear white people

Go ahead, ask me...it's okay.

Where do Hmong people come from?

They won't come south of the creek.

Sorry, I Just Have to Ask

The definition of urban isn't ghetto

Mom, their butts are black too!

A victim of my own thinking.

I am tired of explaining myself.

Who's that person at your house?

Blood Bones Brain & Flesh. Human

duck duck brown duck, amidst greys

Mexican Irish Girl: agnostic and dry

She gave the eraser back.

First in college last to mother

Life's Uniform, I AM A Man

Why should skin color change anything?

He put pickles in my pancakes.

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

As a Bi-coaster, race is terrain

Black girl motto...buy your hair!

All the Mexicans here are Black.

Image portrayed, impression made. It DOES matter.

Discovering, remembering and filtering historical resentments.

My father endearingly calls us Cottonpicker.

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

Biologically baseless with immesurable social impact

Jew girl raised in Bible Belt

Being colorblind is not the answer.

Really? Are both your parents Indian?

Benefit and burden with being biracial

Call Me Irish, Not Just White

Bias helps me form true impression

Eeny. Meeny. Miney. Moe. Catch a...

But Elizabeth, you're not really black...

Me llamo Lora y hablo español.

Leave the gun, take the cannoli

Protect sister from favorite childhood movies.

Red head mother angry unbroken strong

We joke, but it's not funny.

You don't talk with an accent.

Biker gangs have love for me

I changed countries, now I'm black

Not magical or mythical, just human

Weary of race talk. Boring. Incapacitating.

Xenophobia or racism? They are different.

The baby mama drama can stop.

Divide And Conquer: The Media's Agenda

Well, why NOT talk about race?

Black nerd--everyone says, Stop faking.

Talk to anyone about it now.

You are white so you're rich

I'm white and I'm raising a biracial child.

You're deaf, but you talk good...

Color separation only exist with laundry

You two are such good people.

My world told me I'm Black.

Little brown girl, white man's world

Everybody the same no matter color!

Good Morning! But there's no response.

You're in America now, speak English!

Too white for my own good.

Girl, you got that good hair.

Be like a panda, embrace yourself!

One for all, all for one.

Tired of dream; Where is plan!

Short. Dark. Supposed statistic. Intellectual outlier.
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