I love being white, it’s awesome!

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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

Uniquely Made, The American Girl Today

Privileged kid meets Black men - golfing

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

Things I'm sick of PoC saying

Yeah, I'm white. But so what?

Do not play the race card.

God created race people created racism

I'm starting to hate white people

I decide if I'm black enough.

Be color brave, not color blind.

Wik na tiki wawa bastən wawa

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

Blood and Tears But Footprints Remain

China, Yellow, hardworking, dream, versatile, active

This doesn't make you a better person.

Greek American, cheeseburger cheeseburger not funny

Transman Interracial Couple Is Not Easy!

Parents hated, I chose the opposite.

Being gay has taught me compassion.

Why Not Put My Needs First?

Use privilege to give a voice to others

Indian American South Asian Desi American

Brown skin isn't a measure of my intelligence

Call me Caitlyn - a new Jenner-ation

Confederate flags everywhere. Scares me immensely.

Just like a 'lectric clock ticking

By protecting her, I'm oppressing her.

I want to hear your song!

I was a white tobacco farmer

Black culture is alien to whites

Brown Indo Canadian living life fully

I am, am I, truly Canadian?

People assume my daughter is adopted.

Genetically black and white raised hispanic

A white boy can rap? Please...

What my parents fear - I embrace

Oh you're blonde...typical white girl

Changing the path of my children!!

Money Brings Shame to My Skincolor

Evolve beyond one's name; embrace Justice.

I am who I am, ME!

I won't bear my ancestor's sins.

Latina? Yes. Speaks Spanish? No. Gasp.

Defined. Always by my last name.

When We Outnumber You, You'll See!

Yes, I know how to swim.

It's President Obama, not Mr. Obama.

Understand NOW Didn't then I'm sorry

Homeless. White. Unusual. Gave him money.

Huh?! I thought you’d be white.

Race is history, embrace our species.

Samoan/Jewish - aka The Last Unicorn

I feel watched in the store

So, what are you? An American.

Here's money. is not an apology.

Skin's too white for my heritage

Just call me a human being

We all hurt in different ways.

Yo soy Tejano, not White Washed

Mzungu: Kenyans say, white skin human heart

Look like them, Sing like us

Mythical norm, is what I be

A heritage that no one sees

Haitian Cuban fusion. Proud legacy continues.

What are you? I can't tell

I love being in the minority

Dating: I'm too dark for him?!

I'm actively black, you're passively white

They want us to stay divided.

Don't call White men White Boys

I'm Angelyce. Mixed race and Bi-sexual.

Mom's white. Dad's black. I'm spotted.

He called me honky. I laughed.

Son, let me explain 'busing'.

But where are you really from?

You don't look like a Filipino

Ashamed of American Black culture today

Music teacher listening to student cries

Foreign language radio thoughuout CA - Ugh!

A costume mistaken for an actor

Never Accepted As American While Abroad

Will they ask me or assume?

Mistaken for Mexican at Arizona protest

People never guess my race correctly

Yes, that is his daughter, too.

Race is a story we tell

I Won't do your Math homework.

What You See Is Not Complete

You'll find your real parents someday.

My German accent creates a wall.
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