Michele Norris has done several in depth reports about race and culture for NPR. Here is a sampling of that work.
The York Series on Race and the 2008 vote (below is a link to all the stories/essays/multi-media on the York Series)
https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=95934562
Parker High: Integration’s unfulfilled promise, Part I
https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1869257
Part II
https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1871460
US Marshalls on Integration’s front lines
https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1875055&ps=rs
Modern Segregation is often by choice
https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1872946&ps=rs
The Woolworth Sit-in That launched a movement
https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=18615556
President Johnson, Martin Luther King Jr and Civil Rights
https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4536212
Jasper: Ten Years after a Racist Murder
https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=91489022
The Two Towns of Jasper
https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=925034
The Reunion — Documentary Explores the Integration of Shaker Heights
https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=3857937
Father recalls deadly blast at Birmingham Baptist Church
https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=94640715
The Black Book captures African American Experience
https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=94640715
After 35 years Black Book Still Strikes a Chord
https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=121308250
Loving Decision: Forty years of legal interracial unions
https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=10889047
Still Hungry in America: A Return to Mississippi
https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5495641
Still Hungry in America, Part II
https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5496379
Will American Voters Elect a Black President
https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6642868
Michele recalls memories of New Orleans in the early days after Katrina
Michele’s remarks after receiving the Journalist of the Year Award from the National Association of Black Journalists.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FKyR-ji2ho
Michele Norris in conversation with David Remnick, author of “The Bridge”