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Hamden, Conn. – Dec. 12, 2013 –
National Public Radio host Michele Norris will present
Quinnipiac University’s
annual Black History Month lecture, "Eavesdropping on America's
Conversation on Race," at 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 19, in the Burt
Kahn Court on the Mount Carmel Campus. This event
is free and open to the public.
Norris
will discuss The Race Card Project, which she started in 2010 to foster
a wider conversation about race. She created the project after the
publication of her 2010 family memoir, "The Grace of Silence." In the
book she turns her formidable interviewing and investigative skills on
her own background to unearth long-hidden family secrets that raise
questions about her racial legacy and shed new
light on America's complicated racial history.
An
award-winning journalist with more than two decades of experience,
Norris hosts NPR's newsmagazine, “All Things Considered,” public radio's
longest-running
national program, with Robert Siegel and Melissa Block.
Before
coming to NPR, Norris was a correspondent for ABC News, a post she held
from 1993-2002. As a contributing correspondent for the Closer Look
segments on “World News Tonight with Peter Jennings,” Norris reported
extensively on education, inner city issues, the nation's drug problem
and poverty.
Norris
has also reported for the Washington Post, Chicago Tribune and Los
Angeles Times. Her Washington Post series about a six-year-old who lived
in a crack house was reprinted in the book, “Ourselves Among Others,”
along with essays by Václav Havel, Nelson Mandela, Annie Dillard and
Gabriel García Márquez.
A
four-time Pulitzer Prize entrant, Norris has received numerous awards
for her work, including the National Association of Black Journalists'
2006
Salute to Excellence Award, for her coverage of Hurricane Katrina; the
University of Minnesota's Outstanding Achievement Award; and the 1990
Livingston Award. In 2007, she was honored with Ebony Magazine's eighth
Annual Outstanding Women in Marketing & Communications
Award. Norris also earned both an Emmy Award and Peabody Award for her
contribution to ABC News' coverage of 9/11. She is on the judging
committee for both the John Chancellor Award for Excellence in
Journalism, and the Livingston Awards. Norris is also a
frequent guest on “The Chris Matthews Show” on NBC News.
Norris
attended the University of Wisconsin, where she majored in electrical
engineering, and graduated from the University of Minnesota in
Minneapolis,
where she studied journalism.
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