Michele Norris

Michele Norris

columnist at the Washington Post, former NPR host

Host/Producer

Founding Director of the Race Card Project; former special correspondent and former host of NPR's All Things Considered, public radio's longest-running national program.

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“There was a lot of tough language in the inaugural address today. But there's a gentleness about Joe Biden.

Biden addresses unity and white supremacy at inauguration. Empathy is his ‘natural octave,’ says Michele Norris

“There was a lot of tough language in the inaugural address today. But there's a gentleness about Joe Biden.

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The Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture

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