Tag: Michele Norris

  • Family Secret And Cultural Identity Revealed In ‘Little White Lie’ Morning Edition National Public Radio 2015-03-23 Michele Norris, Host and Special Correspondent Filmmaker Lacey Schwartz grew up in a white Jewish family in Woodstock, New York, believing she was white. Schwartz learns she’s bi-racial as she prepares to attend college. Listen to the story here.…

  • Michele Norris to visit MSU Sept. 15 Michigan State University Today 2014-09-03 Award-winning journalist and National Public Radio contributor Michele Norris will visit MSU Sept. 15 to speak about her best-selling memoir, “The Grace of Silence,” one of the three selections in this year’s One Book, One Community program. This year’s OBOC program is coordinated…

  • Seeing Opportunity In A Question: ‘Where Are You Really From?’ Morning Edition National Public Radio 2013-11-11 Renee Montagne, Host Steve Inskeep, Host Michele Norris, Host/Special Correspondent NPR continues a series of conversations about The Race Card Project, where thousands of people have submitted their thoughts on race and cultural identity in six words. Every so…

  • Holding Onto The Other Half Of ‘Mixed-Race’ the race card project: six word essays Morning Edition National Public Radio 2013-10-14 Steve Inskeep, Host NPR continues a series of conversations about The Race Card Project, where thousands of people have submitted their thoughts on race and cultural identity in six words. Every so often NPR Host/Special…

  • Visualizing Race, Identity, and Change Proof National Geographic 2013-09-17 Michele Norris, Guest Contributor Proof is National Geographic’s new online photography experience. It was launched to engage ongoing conversations about photography, art, and journalism. In addition to featuring selections from the magazine and other publications, books, and galleries, this site will offer new avenues for our…

  • Owning my Whiteness, Becoming an Ally The Race Card Project: Six-Word Essays By Michele Norris 2013-04-17 Becky Christensen Ann Arbor, MI Despite growing up in a somewhat racially diverse area in the San Francisco Bay Area, I had never thought about the privileges I had based on being White until I read Peggy McIntosh’s “White:…

  • When You’re Mixed Race, Just One Box Is Not Enough The Race Card Project: Six-Word Essays National Public Radio 2013-04-02 NPR continues a series of conversations about The Race Card Project, where thousands of people have submitted their thoughts on race and cultural identity in six words. Every so often NPR Host/Special Correspondent Michele Norris…

  • Race Card Project Creates New Type of Conversation The Associated Press 2012-11-30 Jesse Washington, National Writer on Race and Ethnicity She asked for just six words. Michele Norris, the National Public Radio host, was starting a book tour for her memoir, which explored racial secrets. Sensing a change in the atmosphere after the election of…

  • ‘In The Blink Of An Eye,’ A Change In Racial Identity All Things Considered National Public Radio 2011-07-07 Michele Norris, Host Michael Sidney Fosberg grew up thinking he was white. His mother is white. His stepfather is white. And while he never met his biological father, the assumption was that he was white too. But…

  • Reimagining The ‘Tragic Mulatto’ [Interview with Author Heidi W. Durrow] All Things Considered National Public Radio 2010-03-02 Michele Norris, Host All Things Considered Like so many children of mixed marriages, the author Heidi Durrow has often felt like she’s had to straddle two worlds. She is the daughter of a black serviceman and a white Danish…