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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
SPOTLIGHT SCHOOL

"We are seventh graders at High Tech Middle Media Arts striving for change, so silence is not an option."
Recent Race Cards

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.

How soft black hair is. . . surpise

Girl, you got that good hair.

Skin says black, hair says mixed.

Natives Can Have Curls Without Admixture

Our Outer Appearance Does Not Matter

Red hair gets the most stares.

Not wanting to deny my roots

Surprised that dreadlocks are racially charged.

Got tired of straightening my hair

Black. Good hair? Indian in your family?

Black girl motto...buy your hair!

You are smarter than you look

From a white teenage girl's perspective

Brown girl rejected with red blood

There's no finish line to color

Latinas with fros are sexy too!

My white girl braids ignited confusion.

Hated sunburns, wished I was black.

Sorry, this AMERICAN sings it better.

Remember, whites are a global minority

WOW your english is really good.

I'm Pasty and I Know It

The reparations will never end now

Neighborhood party we were not invited

Becoming American, it is not easy

You look just like your dad.

I didn't choose to be white

Tenth generation American, still asked origin.

It's not my fault black people.

Somewhere between Salsa and Country!

Can't always have what you want

Oooh..can I touch your hair?

First black family on our block!

I'm surprised you speak so well.

I help; I'm not THE help.

We are all God’s beautiful children.

I was always different growing up

My daughter isn't a China Doll.

To be young, gifted, and black.

Grow like the fields surrounding us.

Narrow Paths Dirt Roads Soul Soles

But where are you really from?

Proud White Man No Guilt

Rice is my LIFE. Deal with it.

Wishing, hoping, fighting for better

Middle-aged Karen, from invisible to villain

Assumptions from history hurts the present!

God loves people and Formula Racing

Disabled atheist trying to be ally.

Lesbian - open, proud, happy & sometimes fearful

White American man. Broke AF.

White dude, Asian wife. Stereotype away.

Solidarity means losing (some) family ties

Wish I had changed my name!

I wish I were something else

Old chains are hard to break.

Hey, Geisha Girl! What? Who, me?

Don't assume- alot you don't know

You talk like you are white.

I'm a white Hindu. We exist.

Polo, Khakis, Sperry's, still a N*****!

Go back where you came from

Raised in segregated north, I'm racist.

You all look alike to me

Latinx adoptee naturalized immigrant Jewish American

Whites have the luxury to ignore it.

Oh sorry I am new here!

I’m so white “ginger” from Alabama

Why don't you consider yourself White?

Mommy, why wasn't I born white?

Singapore is a country? Definitely America...
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