Michele Norris: Our Hidden Conversation

Michele Norris is one of America’s most trusted voices in journalism. She has earned multiple honors over a long career, including Peabody, Emmy, Dupont, and Goldsmith awards. She is a columnist for The Washington Post Opinion Section, the host of the Audible Original Podcast, Your Mama’s Kitchen, and from and from 2002 to 2012 she was a cohost of NPR’s All Things Considered. Norris is also the founding director of The Race Card Project, a Peabody Award–winning narrative archive where people around the world share their reflections on identity. The prompt is simple: Race. Your Story. Six Words. Please Send. More than half-a-million stories have been submitted. Many of them are collected in her newest book, Our Hidden Conversations; What Americans Really Think About Race and Identity. It has been described as a transformative dialogue, spanning the full spectrum of race, ethnicity, identity, and class.