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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

White people in Jamaica no tourist

Being black in a white town.

Being black doesn't mean I'm struggling

I want you to be authentic

Never Been Asked: What Are You?

Two worlds, where do I belong?

I fight for Americans, whatever color

I choose to love and persevere

Ex-military, don't understand my country's culture.

Χιος to Hughes...we’re all immigrants

Military families: ahead of the curve.

The world has a beautiful tapestry.

Teaching My Children About Racism - Disturbing!

Entered world of race after 9/11

Wearing your difference on the outside.

No eye contact because I'm white.

Sir, it's just a random search.

By protecting her, I'm oppressing her.

White husband became Iranian September eleventh.

I passed Citizenship test, can you?

Suburban white kids nicknamed me Chinaman

My fear exceeds yours, white people.

The Day After The World Changes

Passing under streetlights... shouldn't we nod?

We're just not understanding each other

My husband calls me future girl.

Children look you in the eye

Tired of being blamed for everything

I am the lone black parent....

I didn't change my name

Spit towards my feet on train.

I feel invisible, while standing out.

Only White Countries Must Embrace Diversity

Hockey is not a white sport.

No Problems for Private School Kids

Quit news job; wedding photos segregated.

They kept asking were they black?

Women tell hidden mixed heritage story.

My role model was not black.

I am more than 3/5ths person

Made up concept to divide us.

Unlike Color, I (Can) Hide Being Gay

You Must Be Mixed With Something

Wish I knew how I'm viewed

Chicano/Native-American trying to recapture my past

You don’t want truth? Too bad.

I just want to be respected

No Kids, Fake Name, Not Mexican

Being Jewish in the 60’s hurt.

I am human, just like you

Led me to pursue more opportunities.

We have a future you see

In a way, we’re all stereotypes.

Stopping myself from hating white people

The one with the brown skin.

I want to help, not hurt.

Hispanic Or Not I Achieve Dreams

Tiger Moms eat their children alive

You talk well for being black!

Being white doesn't make me rich.

Settler colonialism is the root problem.

What beautiful children! Are they yours?

Real. Male. Opinionated. Intelligent. Black. Invisible.

White? Just don't think about it.

I am not my racist parent

Cute! Where did you get them?

My Swahili children: chai ya maziwa

Still racist. Sorry. Working on it.

I’m so white “ginger” from Alabama

God's colorblind. I'm trying to be.

How do you pronounce your name?

No, I Won't Mow Your Lawn!

I am careful with what I say

Colorblind but others may not be.

Colorblindness means you can't see me.

Identity isn't housed in a box

I hate myself, a white girl.

I'm a white Hindu. We exist.

Learned about race FEAR at 13.

Taxi rejection opened white man's eyes

Why is your son so white?

Oh wow! You're actually really smart.

This is America, We Speak English

My Jacket Came With A Hood

She is the Black People's Victory!

Are you Mexican? Does it matter?

I grieve for my lost identity.

I am not who you think I am

Becoming increasingly aware of my whiteness.

I am black, not yet American
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