PERSON: Michele Norris

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Michele L. Norris (born September 7, 1961) is an American journalist. From 2019 to 2024 Norris was an opinion columnist with The Washington Post. She co-hosted National Public Radio’s evening news program All Things Considered from 2002 to 2011 and was the first African-American female host for NPR. Before that Norris was a correspondent for ABC News, the Chicago Tribune, and the Los Angeles Times. Norris is a member of the Peabody Awards board of directors.

Norris was born in Hennepin County, Minnesota, to Elizabeth Jean “Betty” and Belvin Norris Jr. Her mother is a fourth-generation Minnesotan and her father is from Alabama. Belvin served in the Navy in World War II. Norris attended Washburn High School in Minneapolis, and later the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where she first studied electrical engineering, before transferring to the University of Minnesota where she majored in journalism and mass communications.

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