Why do you think I’m different?

Natasha Sykes
Saint Louis, MO

Biracial. New Kid. Moving all the time. Never fitting in.

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SPOTLIGHT SCHOOL

"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

White: playing the other 51 cards.

A group bound by cultural similarities.

Carried by all, heavier for some.

With kids, people don't separate us.

Boy From America's Heartland, Indian American

Words matter. Think before you speak

No, you cannot touch my hair.

Overall loss of compassion and understanding

Coronavirus: Not Opportunity for Blatant Racism

I'm white but I'm not basic

Shouting: No Chinese! But,... I'm not.

I'm A Sister, Not A Savior

Hesci, hello, I am Poarch Creek.

Native and proud of my culture.

Context matters in a slip-up, right?

Why I Choose To Use Other

Aussie, but forced to be white

Child of Pennsylvainia coal miners

Black and part of the solution.

I am Isaac; I am Ishmael

Is my empathy hollow without experience?

I want to eliminate subconscious prejudices

Pointless meeting ...

Could ignorance truly lead to unification?

I'm fortunate to have many opportunities

A day without tacos no thanks

Reasons to not Hate Mexicans

From my brown eyes to yours

You're Mexican, why's your skin white?

Appreciate One Another, We Are One

Being White and Black is interesting.

My race doesn't affect God's Grace

Does Race Really Matter or Not?

WHITE BROWN PRIVILEGED SOUTH MEXICO BORDER

funny, athlete, angry, happy, depressed, sad

I am a privileged black man.

You love my hair, not blackness

What white neighborhood has MLK high?

White meets black Black meets white

Small white girl, watching heroes march

Change comes through continous struggle MLK

I was there, so were friends.

Montgomery Blair HS still inspires me

You don’t see what I see.

Content of character is NOT color-blindness.

Martin wanted better for blacks, whites

1968. Black freshman roommate. Different planets.

Adopted from India lived in NH

Lincoln Memorial with Ace. I understand.

Wish I knew you in 1970.

Jewish white woman wanting different perspective

One Mirror With Many Different Reflections.

“In the end, we all fruit”

Privilege? My job at a course.

Ain't much if you ain't Dutch

I don't speak Spanish, just Russian

Damn Yankees don't go back home

Nobody talks about oppressed Hawaiian Natives.

Color Blind is not the solution

East or west food is best

Shouldn't matter in the casting room

Not Director. This black woman (standing next to me) is.

Ain't Nothin' Wrong Being a Factory Rat.

Italian and Greek but no freak.

I am a human being uniquely made

Black and proud black and flourishing.

Not much different from Northern Ireland

The quiet girl in the back

I am more than just pigment.

Still learning, still struggling, still white

I want to understand and feel

It's time to expect the unexpected.

2004 before we admitted black roots.

Hard to Summarize in Six Words

I'm fine, race is your problem.

Being Brown Makes Me Look Hood

Tennerican Asian passes on only Asian

Stuck between two races..fitting neither.

Our inheritance hate, our legacy love

Equal but some are more equal.

It's just the soul's wrapping paper

I am american first, brown second

Stop feeding your own stereotypical identity!

I still hope, I still despair

Mama is Puerto Rican, my father, white

Black? White? Which box do I mark? I'm both

Humans are just like cannabis strains

When Will It End? I'm Tired

My children don’t look like me.

How can I use this privilege?
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