Michele Norris

Spanning the full spectrum of race, ethnicity, identity and class, a Peabody Award-winning journalist presents six-word stories, essays and photographs from her decade-long work at The Race Card Project that provide a window into America during a tumultuous era.

Presented together for the first time, here are the very first, and very best, definitive listener favorites that came to be known as Driveway Moments: the classic, spellbinding stories that keep getting better with repeated listening, selected from the National Public Radio archives. These tales were first heard on Morning Edition, All Things Considered, and other NPR programs. Like the unforgettable "Amy's Answering Machine," in which comedian and...