Michele Norris

A Daughter's Struggle To Overcome A Legacy Of Segregation

Michele Norris — Tue, 11 Jun 2013 07:18:00 +0000

As we head into the summer months, NPR is looking back to the summer of 1963, a momentous year in civil rights history. As part of NPR's partnership with The Race Card Project, which asks people to distill their thoughts on race to six words, Host/Special Correspondent Michele Norris is asking people who were on the front lines of history to share their memories and their thoughts on race in America today.

The legacy of the late Alabama Gov.

Living In Two Worlds, But With Just One Language

Michele Norris — Thu, 23 May 2013 07:05:00 +0000

NPR continues its conversations about The Race Card Project, where NPR Host/Special Correspondent Michele Norris asks people to send in six-word stories about race and culture.

For A Black Doctor, Building Trust By Slowing Down

Michele Norris — Wed, 01 May 2013 07:14:00 +0000
It may be hard to imagine that people can distill their thoughts on a topic as complicated as race into just six words. But thousands of people have done just that for The Race Card Project, in which NPR host/special correspondent Michele Norris invites people to send in their microstories about race and cultural identity.

Host ProFile: 'The Single Most Important Thing I Do Is Listen.'

Michele Norris — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 16:07:25 +0000
My name... Michele Norris
NPR employee since... October 2002
Public radio listener since... I grew up as a prisoner of public radio. I've been listening since I was a kid.

A Young Artist Finds Solace In Creatures Of The Sea And Sky

Michele Norris — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 18:14:04 +0000
In February, NPR's Backseat Book Club read a novel about a troubled kid who finds both strength and solace in the artwork of the renowned naturalist John James Audubon. The novel, Okay for Now by Gary D. Schmidt, takes place in 1968 in a little town in upstate New York where middle-schooler Doug Swietek is drowning in life's complications.

How 'Black Beauty' Changed The Way We See Horses

Michele Norris — Fri, 02 Nov 2012 19:16:00 +0000
NPR's Backseat Book Club is back! And we begin this round of reading adventures with a cherished classic: Black Beauty by Anna Sewell. Generations of children and adults have loved this book.

June Kids' Book Club Pick: 'Diary Of A Wimpy Kid'

Michele Norris — Thu, 31 May 2012 20:14:00 +0000
The next installment in NPR's Backseat Book Club heads back to where this all started: Diary of a Wimpy Kid, by Jeff Kinney. It was our 2009 interview with Kinney that sparked the idea for a special book club dedicated to kids. On the day before Kinney arrived at our studios, we asked our youngest listeners to send us the questions they would put to the author of the blockbuster series. We were floored by the response. An avalanche of emails hit our inbox from kids all over the country.

'The Atlantic' Remembers Its Civil War Stories

Michele Norris — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 22:17:00 +0000
Today it is widely understood that slavery is a stain on American history — indelible and regrettable. But on the 150th anniversary of the beginning of the Civil War, a new issue of The Atlantic magazine reaches back to a time when this matter wasn't yet settled, and monumental questions were still up in the air: Would slavery continue? Would America remain united?
The magazine was founded by a group of prominent writers, including Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau.

Nagin, Landrieu Set for Mayoral Run-Off

Michele Norris — Thu, 18 May 2006 19:59:00 +0000
Transcript
MELISSA BLOCK, host:
From NPR News this is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED. I'm Melissa Block.
MICHELE NORRIS, host:
And I'm Michele Norris.
This weekend New Orleans voters will go to the poles to elect the man responsible for rebuilding the battered city. Incumbent Mayor Ray Nagin faces off against Lieutenant Governor Mitch Landrieu, the son of Moon Landrieu, the larger than life mayor who ran New Orleans through much of the 1970s.
Hurricane Katrina stirred up politics in the city, scattering residents far and wide, creating new feuds and new alliances.