Ep. 367 — Michele Norris

The Axe Files with David Axelrod

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4.6 • 7.7K Ratings

🗓️ 10 February 2020

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Michele Norris, former host of NPR’s All Things Considered, joins David to talk about how her family’s firsthand experience with housing discrimination shaped her world view, her struggle as a fledgling television reporter to overcome a speech impediment, her friendship with Michelle Obama, and how The Race Card Project — an initiative she founded in order to foster a wider conversation about race — might inform our politics today.

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0:00.0	Music
0:06.0	And now, from the University of Chicago Institute of Politics and CNN Audio, the Axfiles with
0:12.5	your host, David Axelrod.
0:20.1	Michel Norris is a familiar voice to millions of Americans as the long-time award-winning
0:25.0	host of NPR's All Things Consider.
0:28.7	In that role, she launched the race card project, asking people to write about race in
0:33.8	just six words.
0:35.4	The results have been nothing short of astonishing.
0:38.5	I sat down with Michel recently to talk about what she's learned and what she discovered
0:42.7	about her own family's journey along the way.
0:51.0	Michel Norris, it's so great to see you.
0:53.7	It is so good to be with you.
0:56.0	And thank you for coming to the Institute of Politics.
0:58.3	You are very welcome.
0:59.3	Good to be back here in Chicago.
1:00.9	So we've been friends for a long time, but these exercises give me a chance to learn more
1:07.2	about people who I thought I knew.
1:10.1	Let's just talk about your story.
1:13.3	Many apples.
1:14.3	You were raised there.
1:16.0	Tell me about your folks.
1:17.3	Well, it's interesting that you asked me that question here in Chicago because my father
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