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One Minneapolis, One Read- The Grace of Silence

One Minneapolis, One Read

Inspiring conversations and guiding learning

One Minneapolis, One Read inspires conversations and guides learning about race (PDF)

Later this year, folks all over Minneapolis will have something in common: a book. One Minneapolis, One Read will bring people in the city together and spark conversations by having everyone read the same book.

The Grace of Silence by Minneapolis native and National Public Radio host Michele Norris. …

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Grace Notes Blog- Race is Rocks Thrown at Kids!

Race is rocks thrown at kids!

That is the way one of my readers summed up his feelings on RACE in six words. It was part of an exercise I’ve asked readers to engage in. I call it my Race Card Project. I ask people to share their thoughts, experiences, observations, hopes, laments or viewpoint about race in one sentence. But that sentence can only have six words.…

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Race: Are we so Different?- Michele Norris & Surprising Statistics

RACE CARDS from Smithsonian Natural History Museum and the Community Foundation for the National Capital Region are co-sponsoring an invitation only event which will offer guests an advance preview of a new exhibit Race: Are We So Different?, which explores ideas of race from a scientific, social and contemporary/community lens.

One of the audience members wrote a blog post about my opening question — please give us one statistic that

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Race: Are We So Different- Michele Norris Moderates

Putting Race of the Table- The Smithsonian: The National Museum of Natural History

“The National Museum of Natural History and The Community Foundation for the National Capital Region co-hosted an evening discussion Putting Race on the Table on Wednesday, June 15, 2011. A panel of experts included Dalton Conley, New York University; Mallika Dutt, Breakthrough; Margaret K. O’Bryon, Consumer Health Foundation; John A. Powell, Kirwan Institute for the Study of …

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Aspen Ideas Festival-Michele Norris’s BIG IDEA, Race in 6 words

2011 Aspen Ideas Festival: Michele Norris

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>…

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The Bay State Banner- NPR’s Michele Norris reflects on ‘The Grace of Silence’

NPR’s Michele Norris reflects on ‘The Grace of Silence’

A renowned and respected journalist, Michele Norris knows about the power of communication.

As the keynote speaker during a recent breakfast of The Inclusion Initiative, Norris left the audience with a simple yet significant reminder. “There is always power in understanding and there is always power in words,” she said.

Even those that are not spoken.

Norris focused on the …

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Aspen Ideas Festival: Michele Norris: Connecting Cultures Through Radio

NPR’s Michele Norris: Connecting Cultures Through Radio (VIDEO)
June 28, 2011 by genConnect Staff

Watch Michele Norris at the 2011 Aspen Ideas Festival spend ’2.5 Minutes With genConnect.’ We connected with National Public Radio’s “All Things Considered” host.

Click the play button below to watch genConnect Creative Director Kelly Hayes interview Michele Norris on the challenges of cross-cultural connections and how she feels about her first Aspen Ideas Festival appearance:…

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Penny Luckenbaugh -Friendship forged in the South Pacific

My husband , who died in 2010, was a veteran of WWII. He served on a destroyer in the South Pacific. A shipmate was an African American man, older than most of the enlisted men, who was an officers steward-like working in the mess, the usual job for men of color in the Navy at that time. He and my husband met in the ship library and became friends. In

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Walt Pulliam, JR. -White who accepted racism too passively.

White who accepted racism too passively.

I grew up in a segregated society and accepted it passively. Even after I began to question it in the 60’s, not much moral indignation was expressed nor courage exhibited. Now I safely express my views that racism exists and is wrong in venues like letters to the editor, etc. Even so, I regrettably still harbor feelings of superiority.

– Walt Pulliam Jr.,
Richmond,

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“The Grace of Silence” chosen for a city-wide Read in Minneapolis

NPR’s Michele Norris will Headline Community Read

By Nick Halter

Tumultuous meetings over a proposed off-leash dog area at Martin Luther King Jr. Park over the past year left many city residents with a sick feeling in their stomach.

When the debate over the park was finished and the proposal nixed, some of those people decided they didn’t want to walk away from their neighbors on such bad terms. Instead, …

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