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Grace Notes: A Veteran’s Day Remembrance

On this Veteran’s day I am thinking of a question I get over and over again while I am traveling the country on book tour. What, if anything, should the U.S. Military do to officially acknowledge the men and women of color who served in the armed forces under onerous segregation codes. Is an apology in order? Is it instead prudent to thank them for serving their country at a …

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Grace Notes: What would Don Draper do…

don-draper-mad-men-jon-hammWhat would Don Draper do if he landed the Aunt Jemima account?

Now that Mad Men has completed its current season, I am left with one lingering question:

If you know about my book, “The Grace of Silence” then you know why I would ponder this question. I set out to write a book about America’s hidden conversations about race and wound up writing an accidental memoir when I started …

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C-SPAN/BOOK TV – Michele Norris in Conversation with Isabel Wilkerson

Michele Norris in Conversation with Isabel Wilkerson

Oct 16, 2010

Texas Book Festival

Two journalists talked about their books and an exploration of “the hidden conversation on race” taking place in the country. They also responded to questions from members of the audience. Professor Goldstone .. Read More
Two journalists talked about their books and an exploration of “the hidden conversation on race” taking place in the country. They also
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Grace Notes Blog- How Exactly Do You Sign This?

How Exactly Do You Sign This?

I encountered an interesting dilemma on stop number ten of my barn-storming book tour. At the Tattered Cover Book Store in Denver- a wonderful book buying paradise- a woman sheepishly walked up to the desk where I was signing books and slid her open Kindle toward my hands. It was the first time I had seen the Grace of Silence e-book on a Kindle …

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The Washington Post- All Things Reconsidered

Washington Post reporter David Montgomery follows Michele Norris as she returns to Birmingham for the first time since publishing a family memoir that celebrates family ties and explores family secrets . Norris discovers things about her family’s deep-rooted history that she could have never imagined. Full story and Photo gallery.

All things reconsidered: NPR’s Michele Norris tells her family’s complete story
By David Montgomery
Wednesday, October 6, 2010

BIRMINGHAM, ALA. …

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Grace Notes Blog- Full Circle Swing Through the Midwest

It’s interesting how life sometimes brings you full circle . I set out to write a book that would allow me to tap into America’s hidden conversation about race and when I started listening to the hidden conversation in my own family, I instead wound up writing an accidental memoir about the long suppressed secrets that came spilling out.

Now that I am on an extended book tour for my …

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Jeff Fraser, My friend Dennis

When I met you last week in Brookline, Massachusetts, I was so moved by your story about your dad that I could barely speak.  You kindly signed my book in memory of my father, Jack.

I was 4 years old in 1955 when Dennis and his family moved into the downstairs apartment of our two-family house in an Irish section of Lowell, Massachusetts. Dennis was my best friend for four

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Best Business Online!- Michele Norris “The Grace of Silence” Interview with Kam Williams

September 28, 2010
with Kam Williams

Born on September 7, 1961, Michele Norris was the youngest of three sisters raised in Minneapolis, Minnesota by Betty and Belvin Norris, Jr. since studying Communications at the University of Minnesota, Michele has embarked on a stellar career in journalism.

Best known as the current co-host of NPR’s all Things Considered, she was recently honored with the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award for The …

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Minneapolis Star Tribune – Memoir examines complexity of race

September 29, 2010
By ELIZABETH FOY LARSEN

When Michele Norris set out to write a book about race, she was surprised to find just how personal that topic really was.

When Michele Norris decided to write a book about race in America, the co-host of National Public Radio’s “All Things Considered” was surprised to learn that her family’s own long-buried stories were as much a part of that history as …

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LA Times- Book review: ‘The Grace of Silence: A Memoir’ by Michele Norris

September 28, 2010

An NPR reporter offers up family secrets as a testimony to racism’s power and reach.

by Sandy Banks

I wish NPR reporter Michele Norris hadn’t called “The Grace of Silence,” her tribute to her parents, a “memoir.” The book is, at once, much less and much more.

Gracefully written and carefully researched, it offers up long-buried family secrets as a testimony to racism’s power and reach: Her

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