Before joining NPR in 2002, Norris worked as a reporter for
ABC News, a position in which she garnered both an Emmy Award and a
Peabody Award for her coverage of 9/11. Norris has reported
extensively on issues of inner city poverty, race and education for
The Washington Post, the Chicago Tribune and the Los Angeles Times.
Her powerful Washington Post series on the drug trade's impact on
young children was published along with essays by Nelson Mandela
and Gabriel Garcia Marquez in the book Ourselves Among Others.
Norris's journalism has earned her four Pulitzer Prize nominations,
the 1990 Livingston Award, the National Association of Black
Journalists' 2006 Salute to Excellence Award and the 2009
Journalist of the Year Award. In her new book, The Grace of
Silence, Michele Norris shows extraordinary candor in examining her
own complex racial legacy. This memoir is inspired by hundreds of
interviews with ordinary Americans and wise observations about
evolving attitudes toward race in America.
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