We are human beings, not colors!

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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

Is the word Haole racist?

My relationship does not define me.

12 million reasons to be exceptional!

White high school, black prom date

All are precious in His sight.

Whites can't tell blondes apart either

More letters add less Dr. Makombe

Bridge across cultures: our reconciliation, salvation

Your soul is deeper than skin color

My children jumpstarted my racial identity.

Love rises above fear every time.

The skin I'm in is resilient.

Giant hole in America's collective soul.

Still figuring out my six words.

Not Member of Your White Club

I married a black man anyway

Same DNA but born this way

I thought your house would be big

If I married black man - disowned!

Denmark: married my niece: beloved family

Southern Belle? No. Korean husband.

Ashamed that my white privilege stifles others

Everyone's surprised to learn we're married!

Multi-racial man without a country to call home.

A border town taught me understanding

A transnational adoptee, consumed by in-betweenity.

I feel invisible, while standing out.

Race doesn't define how you act

They saw me as an Oreo

Threatened because was the white girl.

Wearing your difference on the outside.

Race brings pride, but also shame.

The Day After The World Changes

Watch out Discrimination works both ways

But Black Mental Health Matters Too. . .

Not everyone who looks white (is white)

I'm sorry I'm staring at you.

White privilege makes me feel sickened.

East Europe substitutes Roma for Blacks

Discrimination is circumstantial. Hate is substantial.

So... I should just check 'Other'?

Why steal when you're already looking.

Until you're free, I'm not free.

Don't ever let race define you

To be young, gifted and White

I'm their mom, not the nanny.

1999: Born Into a Racist World

Haitian-Irish mix? That's a first!

Cut normal white people some slack.

My identity isn't up for debate.

I am the token black girl

RESPECT! Skin colour labelling IS offensive

Ritz Cracker at your service sir

Black kids, white moms, strong family.

I am not a gray area

Are you my mother? Sí, mija.

Who lives here? You or him?

Racism created unjust determinants of health

To be young, gifted, and black.

Eliminate race question from application forms

Uniquely Made, The American Girl Today

He stood. She sat. For equality.

I Won't do your Math homework.

All-American Girl: Minority at Work

White heart, tan skin. Full Hapa.

My skin is not my culture.

Politically correct talk gets us nowhere.

Latinx didn't come to steal job

Color Doesn't Matter. Tell My Boss.

The police work for you. Vote.

Made-up, fear, love, in, out, together

I love being in the minority

Family talks, and I get mad

We all say stupid things sometimes.

But where are you really from?

Nobody seems to speak Swedish anymore

Discuss race fearlessly to unite people

I don't like to talk about it.

White skin is the best camouflage

Assessment bubble sheets don't offer multiracial.

Andes shadows follow me, no Quechua.

Women tell hidden mixed heritage story.

Civility heals wounds from the past

Color for crayons, people are people

I (don't) fit. Don't look closely.

Let's be better neighbors to eachother.

Making people comfortable since 1964...

Sadly frustrated at the backward slide.

Relax, we're on same team now!

Needing to introduce myself as adopted
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