Michele Norris
Senior Contributing Editor for MS NOW
Michele Norris is a senior contributing editor for MS NOW and the author of “Our Hidden Conversations: What Americans Really Think About Race & Identity.”
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Opinion
Every eulogy of Jesse Jackson should mention his rare gift
While he was rooted in Black liberation, his mission to create a “rainbow coalition” allowed him to preach a message that landed effectively across racial lines.
Opinion
Minnesota is demonstrating a new brand of resistance
Monitoring groups that call themselves “constitutional observers” videotape immigration agents’ activity, document their vehicles in a database and use whistles and horns to warn neighbors when federal agents appear.
Opinion
ICE wants to make Minneapolis cower in fear. The opposite is happening.
For residents of a stretch of south Minneapolis, last week’s shooting by law enforcement stirred a deep-seated trauma.
MS NOW Opinion
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson’s necklace did the talking for her on Monday
Our country’s first and only Black woman justice’s decision to openly honor her ancestors and her family’s wondrous trajectory speaks volumes.
MS NOW Opinion
Kamala Harris explores her most painful campaign moments in ‘107 Days’
Harris has said she tried hard not to write an “I told you so” book. But she did tell us.
MS NOW Opinion
After the Annunciation school shooting, the gun lobby is counting on our doing nothing
The people responsible for writing our laws have developed a tolerance for children being slaughtered in their schools.
MS NOW Opinion
Wes Moore’s response to Trump’s National Guard deployment is textbook perfect
It’s important that Moore’s fellow Democratic governors take note and call out the wrongheadedness of Trump’s plans.
Opinion
I’m proud to wave the American flag — and other liberals should feel the same
Much like the sky, our nation’s flag is too powerful an entity to concede as a symbol of conservatism and exclusion.
MS NOW Opinion
What the Trump administration woefully misunderstands about America’s workforce
The “100% American workforce” pledge is both implausible and distracts from a necessary conversation about immigration reform.
MS NOW Opinion
How this spring’s commencements reflect Donald Trump’s upending of norms
This spring’s graduates are walking into a world where the norms have been upended and into an uncertain job market and a tumultuous economy.