Michele Norris Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Michele Norris

So excited about my conversation with @TheRealFreada and @mkapor at @sxsw tomorrow at the Austin Hilton. Join us at 11:30 am. Can’t wait to dig in & discuss their powerful and important new book, “Closing The Equity Gap: Creating Wealth and Fostering Justice in Starup Investing” https://t.co/tGegjgszi3

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People of the DMV!!!!! Join me this Thursday for a conversation with @EricHolder @sixthandi at 7pm. Grateful to partner with @politicsprose to discuss his new book #OurUnfinishedMarch, a necessary book about democracy & protecting the right to vote. Righteous and right on time! https://t.co/r8RiUvjmk6

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So......I have learned that my first book, a family memoir called The Grace of Silence, is among the 850 books targeted by a Texas GOP lawmaker who has launched an investigation on books on race and sexuality used in Texas school districts. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/texas-schools-books-race-sexuality/2021/10/27/dcaa30c2-3738-11ec-8be3-e14aaacfa8ac_story.html

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This just in - I’ll be joining @MichelleObama onstage on the Twin Cities stop of her Book tour. To talk about this powerful book #Becoming with Mrs O in my home state where my own #IamBecoming journey began is a thrill beyond measure. Hello Minnesota!!! https://t.co/DR13I05lor

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Anyone else remember the thrill of finding poetry in back pages of @Essence back in the day. Poetry that made you feel seen & understood. Poetry that you would cut out & tape to a mirror or inside a drawer as a nod to what Toni Morrison would call the source of self regard

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@SIfill_ Does he not know the school’s history. UMN Morris’s first buildings were once home to an American Indian Boarding school run by Sisters of Mercy and later the Fed Govt. Because of that, Indigenous students do not pay full tuition. Diversity is baked into the school’s creed

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I just learned that Brian Broome has won the Kirkus Prize in non fiction for his memoir, Punch Me Up to The Gods. Wooooo hooo!!!!!!! Find it if you have not yet read it. So thrilled that he has been writing so many powerful contributing columns for @PostOpinions

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@Sifill_LDF Charles Marsh compiled a fantastic book of civil rights sermons called God’s Long Summer. It was very revealing. A similar compilation of Sunday morning sermons in the period bookended by the 44th & 45th presidencies would probably be revealing and disturbing

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Sad news seems to be raining from the sky. Cannot overstate the importance of Flyboy in the Buttermilk. The wisdom. The cadence. The swagger. The way Greg Tate spit bars on the page so that the sentences thumped with a muscular downbeat. May he rest in rhythm with the ancestors

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On a Sunday news show the esteemed CBS defense correspondent David Martin was asked if the greatest threat to US security comes from outside or within. He said military generals overwhelmingly say within. And then the host moved on to next topic. Like yawning at a coming cyclone

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