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"We are seventh graders at High Tech Middle Media Arts striving for change, so silence is not an option."
General Eric Holder, Modern day civil rights challenges
In The News

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

Don't assume- alot you don't know

Too brown for the fancy restaurant.

Hey, Geisha Girl! What? Who, me?

Native Americans Americas Invisible Invisible Invisible.

All of the bosses are white.

My eyes don't make me Asian

Smart black kid plays tennis alone.

Being proper is not acting white

Convincing a tiger it's a tiger.

Why don't you consider yourself White?

Are we really invisible to you?

Hi. You must be the nanny.

You're one of us (not really).

Who Will Your Children Play With

I'm speaking in Spanish. please reciprocate.

Flesh color crayon: now peach. Hope.

I'm not white, I'm a Scot.

My Swahili children: chai ya maziwa

A rose that grew from concrete!

I'll just call you Annie instead

She's not my maid, I'm hers

Oyibo, go back to your country

Sorry, this AMERICAN sings it better.

Over the phone all was normal

Acceptance, like art, comes in all colors.

I AM NO BETTER THAN ANYONE

White-skinned negro: community of one.

Ignorance of history, convenient or willful?

I’m so white “ginger” from Alabama

“N*****!” is still a trump card.

Scared that we are not enough

Invisible African American immigrant Chinese son

Why my kids are the minority

You can't be mixed your dark

Look like them, Sing like us

I'm actively black, you're passively white

Almost OK that I am childless

Taught all wrong, now teaching others

African American but not black

I feel uncomfortable with you here.

White Pride doesn't mean White Power.

Survived racism, the depression and Korea!

I'm a white Hindu. We exist.

Muslim, Mixed, and a Proud American

I´m more than what I look

Being Jewish in the 60’s hurt.

Justice for all requires White awakening.

My history is beyond the classroom

We - Muhammad Ali

Used, abused; accused, bruised; refused, confused.

Armenian, Tagalog, Ilocano, no. Wolof, yes.

I shouldn't feel uncomfortable about race.

Show Pride We Are Color Blind

My spouse is a black man

White and raised by a man.

This little light of mine. Let'it shine.

DO NOTHING AND NOTHING EVER CHANGES

All the colors stream together, beauty

What will you tell your kids?

Prejudice and Racism, a two-way street.

Look beyond platitudes and excuses

Hold my hand, cancer doesn't discriminate.

I'm not your target market audience.

Disability and race activists work together

You are too good for him

Life is Beautiful Don't Stop Living

Punished for what my ancestors did

Yeh, I'm positively and definitely black.

Usually white babies aren't so cute

Youre so exotic, said white guy.

I love my beautiful Franco-Vietnamese children

No, I am not the nanny.

Did you just clutch your purse?

Cute! Where did you get them?

Discriminated parent hid Native American ancestry

Tiger Moms eat their children alive

Dirty drunk Indians, but not you.

I didn't think it was real!

Am I Jewish? Ancestry vs. Religion

Feel Free to Be Yourself Daily

I am mixed, but still white...

Learning and living are not schooling.

Over the phone, I'm just American.

Your German parents started the war

Race Baiters Are Destroying Our Country

Anymore, afraid of what we represent.

Feeling Conflicted about my family history

No. I'm not your average face.

I was born into mindful tolerance.

I'm Black but NO-ONE believes me!
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