Award winning journalist Michele Norris is the host of NPR's All Things Considered. She has served as a correspondent for ABC News, and has reported for the Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, and Los Angeles Times. Named Journalist of the Year in 2009 by the National Association of Black Journalists, Norris went on to earn Emmy and Peabody awards for her contribution to ABC News' coverage of 9/11. In her memoir, The Grace of Silence, Norris turns her investigative powers on her own family's complex racial legacy. 

NPR Morning Edition host Steve Inskeep interviewed Michele Norris.