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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

Two languages, Three dialects, Three cultures

Let Music Bring Us Together Again

Seeking the descendents of Saulsbury Brooks

Oh, you are together? My apologies.

Sheltered friends. Life is not effortless.

Privileged. No choice in the matter.

Tired of being blamed for everything

Grateful for Painful Cultureshock Down South

Racism a challenge in Ireland too!

People think I live in a Pueblo

We integrate politically but segregate socially

Get back in the field n*****

You know who you look like?

Invisible, until my knowledge is needed.

My Black kids R past 18!

Helped Mom study for her citizenship test

Fake friends slandered my wife's ethnicity.

Mullet. Dashiki. Mom White. Step-dad Black.

Taunted guero: friends and foes alike

Mother gave me a different world.

White mom hoping Filipina daughter's prepared

No, she's really my mom

Chinese adoptee with a white name

Talaga! I thought you were Pilipino!

1964: Mom happy my friend was black

I want to be like Mom

Sorry, My Mom Don't Like Blacks

Mom, why do they hate us?

Bad time for Blue; Always Black

Benefit and burden with being biracial

I don’t know Inez’s last name.

Grandfather would not teach Mom Cherokee.

I am tired of being exotic!

His bus stop's my white school.

A heritage that no one sees

Let my struggles refine me.

I'm sorry I'm staring at you.

Divide in America demands one listen

Uncovering lost migration stories, increasing empathy

Microaggressions. Psychological tyranny. We are culpable.

But my best friend is black.

He's black he must gang bang

We're all a minority of one.

Nobody seems to speak Swedish anymore

We are not the color yellow

Well, why NOT talk about race?

Look beyond platitudes and excuses

Recognizing I'm Privileged, Working for Change

Changing the path of my children!!

Words, arranged properly, can change lives.

I look good because I'm ME

Why do I have to change?

Race sees race. Love sees love.

We Created Race, Then Change It

Si Senor, yo soy del Bario

Joy is the armor of truth

Si se puede the famous quote.

1950's - Mother worked for Civil Rights

Content of character is NOT color-blindness.

Uniquely Made, The American Girl Today

In the 1980's racism underwent Huxtablization.

Such power in words and action

Oceanic? I've NEVER heard of that.

Do I look like a Twinkie?

Economic Independence Key To Black Freedom

I don't care if I'm good

White heart, tan skin. Full Hapa.

Why do we have black communities?

The only white person here? (How does it feel)

Witnessing humanity’s evolution: hate to love (?).

I trusted adults that taught hate.

Forced me to see broader humanity.

I'm Polynesian, Micronesian, European, Asian, Human.

Black, but I don't fear police

Its OK to take up space

Actions speak louder then six words.

Bleach your skin to be white

Teacher this is my home flag

But WHERE is your family from

I'm myself and I'm so happy

No, where are you really from?

Dream To See Hear And Love

Why isn't 'American' ever a race option?

Little English better than NO English

White people aren't affected by race

I wish I was Brown

People of color under white privilege

African-American descendant of Nathan Bedford Forrest

My children are people not flavors.

The Hiroshimas were good Americans.
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