How do you condense a lifetime of experience and thoughts
about race into six words?
That’s the challenge National Public Radio’s Michele Norris
has put to anyone willing to take part in “The Race Card Project.”
Norris will talk about race and the project February 11, 7-9
p.m. in Salt Lake Community College’s Grand Theatre on its South City Campus,
1575 South State Street in Salt Lake City. People interested in attending the
event are encouraged to register in advance by visiting the web site http://www.slcc.edu/ace/mlk.aspx.
“Norris’ appearance at the Grand is an opportunity to take
part in an important dialogue on a national stage about race in America,” said
SLCC Public Relations Director Joy Tlou. “There is no other project right now
in this country that compares to the significance, impact and broad scope of
Norris’ Race Card Project.”
Race Card is an ongoing online project intended to be a catalyst
for conversation about race, ethnicity and cultural identity in America. Norris
created the project after publication of her 2010 family memoir, The Grand
Silence, which raised “questions about her racial legacy and shed new light on
America’s complicated history.”
Before Norris joined NPR in 2002, she was a staff writer for
The Washington Post, Chicago Tribune and Los Angeles Times. For NPR she has
hosted All Things Considered. In 2009 she was awarded “Journalist of the Year”
by the National Association of Black Journalists.
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