Diversity Conversations: Susan Williams & Michele Norris

Susan Williams from GRCC's Social Sciences Department sits down with Michele Norris.

Michele Norris is currently a host and special correspondent for NPR. Norris served as co-host of NPR's news magazine All Things Considered. Norris relates how she intended to write a book about America's hidden conversations about race but discovered much had been hidden from her by her family. Her parents kept the stories of racial injustice and pain to themselves because they wanted their children "to soar". She found that her father had been shot in the leg after returning from service in WWII by white police officers. Her mother had worked for years as an itinerant Aunt Jemima traveling to small towns demonstrating pancake mixes. Norris suggests that silence has some rewards and many costs. She seeks to uncover and encourage real conversation around family and race.

Presented by the Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at GRCC.

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