What Americans Want to Say About Race and Identity

The Brian Lehrer Show | Jan 16, 2024

Michele Norris, Washington Post columnist, host of the podcast "Your Mama's Kitchen," former cohost of NPR’s All Things Considered and the author of Our Hidden Conversations: What Americans Really Think about Race and Identity (Simon & Schuster, 2024), talks about her new book that builds on the over half a million submissions to the Race Card Project which invited people to submit six words that summed up their story about race.

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