Michele Norris with Kerri Forrest: Our Hidden Conversations

From Michele Norris, award-winning journalist and the first African-American female host for NPR, is a profound project on race that began with a simple note on a card, “Race. Your Thoughts. Six Words. Please Send.” Over half a million people submitted their responses to what we now know as The Race Card Project. Her resulting book, Our Hidden Conversations, was a New York Times bestseller. Norris discusses her transformative national project on race and identity—a unique, moving compilation of personal stories, essays, and photographs providing a window into real-life experiences of race in the United States.

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