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Angela Martin, Your stories

I truly enjoyed meeting you, and hearing you speak at the book festival on last Sat. I was the person that asked your advice on getting my own book started, and shared one of my family secrets with you.

It was been an astounding revelation to find out details about my family by accident, in a similar manner like you did. I was fortunate that my mother, grandmother and grandfather …

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Joseph Ferguson- Your Stories

Ms. Norris,

Am enjoying your book and pondering its meaning for today.  As a 70-year-old black man who has managed to navigate the shoals of American life, I can only say that the issue of race will always be part of the American experience, always.  It is this country’s dna.  (As you no doubt know, it was race and color until recent decades when, although the designation of “race” has

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A sacred space – The 16th Street Baptist Church

Monday, September 27

Tonight I will be speaking in a sacred space – the 16th Street Baptist Church. That’s where nineteen sticks of dynamite killed four little girls — Denise McNair, Addie Mae Collins, Cynthia Wesley and Carol Robertson . All these years later I still remember their names as easily as John, Paul, George and Ringo.

Denise, in particular stands out in my mind. In her photo she looks …

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Sidney Morrison- Your stories

Thank you, Michelle Norris, for telling the story of your father, and
for giving a name to the experience we both shared. My father too was
an African American from the segregated south who served in the U.S.
Army during WW II, spending most of the war on a bleak atoll in
Alaska. He did not talk about his war experience or his early life
until he was dying of

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The Callie Crossley Show- Michele Norris on “The Hidden Conversation”

September 23, 2010 1:40PM

Michele and Callie talk about Michele’s new book, The Grace of Silence, and the hidden stories and secrets that emerged in her own family’s past.

<listen to the full story> 35 minutes in is Michele’s segment…

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Donald Clark- Your Stories

Dear Ms. Norris: I was listening to you discuss your new book on
Morning Joe today. It brought to mind a critical moment on race in my
own life after my service in WW II. Born and raised in the South,
racism was all I knew. My time in the service did not change that.
Then one day, I was in a movie theater. The movie was right out of

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Tom Ruppel, Your Stories

How fortunate Michele Norris was to have learned the history of her father’s mysterious gait before it was too late. A decade ago, I dug out the truth behind why my siblings and I knew nothing of my dad’s family. I learned then that the family – my dad as a young boy – came, like millions of others, from Eastern Europe though Ellis Island in 1913; my grandfather renounced

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Publisher’s Weekly- Family Secrets: PW Talks with Michele Norris

September 22, 2010
By Jordan Foster

Michele Norris, host of NPR’s All Things Considered and author of The Grace of Silence: A Memoir, talks about her Minneapolis upbringing and her family’s Deep South roots.

As a journalist, what was it like doing a project with your family history as the subject?

It was hard, even surreal at times. As a journalist, you don’t use the word “I” very often …

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The Christian Science Monitor- Michele Norris on her family’s hidden history

September 23, 2010
By Randy Dotinga

National Public Radio host Michele Norris set out to write a book about the nation’s hidden conversation about race. She ended up unraveling the secret painful history of her own African-American family.
Her father, a World War II veteran, returned home to Alabama only to be shot by a white cop. Norris never knew until more than 60 years after the shooting and decades …

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KCPW News- NPR’s Norris Speaks About Her Memoir – “The Grace of Silence”

September 22, 2010
by Eric Ray

KCPW News)  NPR’s Michele Norris, co-host of All Things Considered, is also the author of a new book titled The Grace of Silence.  Originally, she set out to write a book about the hidden conversations about race taking place in America.  However, Norris told KCPW’s Eric Ray the book ended up taking her on a very different journey.

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