{"id":37272,"date":"2014-09-07T22:55:57","date_gmt":"2014-09-07T22:55:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=37272"},"modified":"2014-09-28T20:15:12","modified_gmt":"2014-09-28T20:15:12","slug":"michele-norris-to-visit-msu-sept-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=37272","title":{"rendered":"Michele Norris to visit MSU Sept. 15"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/msutoday.msu.edu\/news\/2014\/michele-norris-to-visit-msu-sept-15\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Michele Norris to visit MSU Sept. 15<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/msutoday.msu.edu\" target=\"_blank\">Michigan State University Today<\/a><br \/>\n2014-09-03<\/p>\n<p>Award-winning journalist and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\" target=\"_blank\">National Public Radio<\/a> contributor <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/people\/2100974\/michele-norris\" target=\"_blank\">Michele Norris<\/a> will visit MSU Sept. 15 to speak about her best-selling memoir, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomhouse.com\/book\/196883\/the-grace-of-silence-by-michele-norris\" target=\"_blank\">The Grace of Silence<\/a>,&#8221; one of the three selections in this year&#8217;s One Book, One Community program.<\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s OBOC program is coordinated in conjunction with MSU\u2019s yearlong Project 60\/50, which commemorates the 60th anniversary of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Brown_v._Board_of_Education\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Brown v. Board of Education<\/em> Supreme Court decision<\/a> and the 50th anniversary of the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Civil_Rights_Act_of_1964\" target=\"_blank\">1964 Civil Rights Act<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Grace of Silence\u201d explores Norris\u2019 family&#8217;s racial legacy and discusses how America talks about race. Norris will speak about her memoir and the <a href=\"http:\/\/theracecardproject.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Race Card&#8221; project<\/a> and sign books at 7:30 p.m. at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whartoncenter.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Wharton Center for Performing Arts<\/a> as part of the World View Lecture Series&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>For more information, click <a href=\"http:\/\/msutoday.msu.edu\/news\/2014\/michele-norris-to-visit-msu-sept-15\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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, &#8220;The Grace of Silence,&#8221; one of the three selections in this year&#8217;s One Book, One Community program. This year\u2019s OBOC program is coordinated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[395,459,13,8,20],"tags":[2344,17854],"class_list":["post-37272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-autobiography","category-history","category-liveevents","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-michele-norris","tag-michigan-state-university-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37272\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}