REGARDING RACE

July 2000
		A New York Times series is examining the state of race relations in everyday America. Where do U.S. race relations stand in the year 2000? Are there racial issues that need further discussion? Times reporter Dana Canedy, former Times writer and George Mason University professor Roger Wilkins and Dartmouth College professor Mary Childers take your questions.

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For the past six weeks, The New York Times has given the issue of race front-page treatment. "How race is lived in America" is the subject of a series focusing on everyday individuals and how race affects their lives. More than 20 Times correspondents and photographers have worked on the project, reporting from schools, playing fields, churches, movie sets and other locations to depict life as it is actually lived by different races in America. The series is scheduled to culminate in a special edition of The New York Times Sunday Magazine on July 16. The Times' Learning Network has published discussion guides and other learning tools containing information from the series for use in classrooms. Readers have been given the chance to respond to the series on the Times' Web site. So far, several thousand have posted their thoughts on race in America. Where do race relations in the U.S. stand in the year 2000? Are there racial issues that need further discussion? Times reporter Dana Canedy, former Times writer and George Mason University professor Roger Wilkins and Dartmouth College professor Mary Childers take your questions.