What the heck IS race, anyway?

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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
General Eric Holder, Modern day civil rights challenges
Peabody Award
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"We are seventh graders at High Tech Middle Media Arts striving for change, so silence is not an option."
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It is called hijab not towel.

Not a color, but God's child

Born Black: Is that my CRIME

So, is your family here legally?

Yes, I married a Vietnamese man.

Love doesn't have a singular color

Mixed Kid: Where do I Belong

If I'm privileged, I didn't know

I'm not black, I'm actually brown.

Affirmative Action is separate and unequal

Bi-racial daughter draws Black self portraits.

I am a privileged black man.

Strength is black on both sides

Do you eat dogs and cats?

A Teacher Who Looks Like Me

I am not what you see

Race is adaptation to your environment.

I don't belong on both sides

As Mutt as a Mutt Gets

White Male Privilege Is A Lie!

Hey Snow White, go back home

Latin, Bald, Tattoos = Thug = Mistaken Identity

I understand that I will never understand

Boat after the Mayflower; who cares?

I don't understand, lets love instead

I didn't get to know her.

Dude, could you please calm down?

I compose music. But I'm brown.

So, what are you mixed with?

He filmed me before I spoke.

Best of Both Worlds? Or Neither?

Reflections of Ethnicity, but Not Race?

A Struggle I Will Never Understand

A$!@n Kid Helps Teacher with Computer

I never think of you as Asian.

She's so basic, typical white girl.

Make art to inform us all.

I am a product of tracking.

When did borders start defining 'race'?

So, what are you? they ask.

We come from the same ocean

More than just a Black girl

Human Spirit - Our One Equal Tie

You're too white to do that

Half In, Half Out, Not Mixed

Ignorance is Bliss in Korean Culture

Teaching white students about social justice.

Why do you talk so proper?

I can shop all by myself

Tiring of race issues shows privilege.

Black Girls Don't Get Depressed...Wrong!

Misreading slavery due to modern morals.

Topic: slavery. All eyes on Brooke

I'm mixed, and discriminated by both.

Mother's warnings at four, instilled racism.

Told: Not African American? Not Black.

White mom, colorful kids, heart ripped.

I was scared of my race

I'm African American; With No Kids.

Embrace who you are, love it

No one else chooses my identity.

You are pretty, are you Indian?

Why don't Afro Americans row?

Haitian does not equal African American!

Although it divides, I find beauty

Black, Papua New Guinea, curious, adopted

You can raise your daughter white

Live in America you're an American

Do I have to Dutch Dance?

You must be good at math.

Don't straighten your hair, baby girl.

I love my hair and skin.

Bad hair good. Hair, me roar!

My natural hair is not disrespectful.

Riding on a train crying, mommy braiding.

Still want to touch your hair

White Mama worries about Boy's hair.

The Nappy Headed Black Girl

Your hair's pretty. What are you?

Would All My Ancestors Love Me?

Who does your little girl's hair?

Yes, I can comb my hair..

I BET YOU HATE YOUR HAIR

NO MORE WEAVES FOR ME FOLKS!

You can't be mixed your dark

My hair defines me, woman Black!

My Black IS Beautiful

You're mixed with that hair, right?

White Girl, head full of curls.
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