Michele Norris, host of All Things Considered on NPR, literally created a race card. She asked people to think about their experiences, thoughts, observations and dreams about race and write them down on a card in one sentence with no more than six words. She talked about the overwhelming and inspiring global response she received at the 2011 Aspen Ideas Festival. <more>
Michele Norris is the host of NPR’s All Things Considered and the author of The Grace of Silence.
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[...] Our Diversity Book Club meeting was a week ago. I’ve now reached a place of more grace, with less fretting about things I can’t or won’t do anything about. The usual strategy worked (someday I will remember to employ it more quickly): gratitude. I am grateful to the people who are getting these stories in spite of the difficulties. Michele Norris tells a moving anecdote about a seventy year old white man who remembers throwing rocks during integration protests in this video where she reads some of the Race Cards she received: Aspen Ideas Festival-Michele Norris. [...]