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What's New here at ProjectRACE.Com
June 7, 2008
- From The Director
- The Obama Racial Identity Factor and Saving Multiracial Lives
"Barack Obama has a white mother and a black father, and to categorize him as only one race medically is just wrong, inaccurate, and likely to cost multiracial people their lives. The Obama Racial Identity Factor (ORIF), which has occurred since this biracial man self-identifies as black, overwhelms America..."
February 27, 2008
July 8, 2007
- From The Director
- What Now?
"So, if racial classifications cannot be used, collecting racial information will cease! Yes? Maybe. If collecting racial information ceases, we won't need a multiracial classification! No? Maybe..."
February 13, 2007
- From The Director
- Is Obama Multiracial?
A three part series:
December 17, 2006
- From The Director
- Happy Holidays From Project RACE!
At this special time of year we would like to thank the members of Project RACE and Teen Project RACE for your commitment to the multiracial community and our organization. We are especially grateful to those who help fund our work...
September 17, 2006
- Federal Updates
- Project RACE letter to the Department of Education
"To continue DOE's foresight into the future population of schools in America, we urge you to collect the data in the category of "multiracial" instead of "two or more races." It is vitally important to multiracial children in this country to have an appropriate, positive and descriptive name for their category; multiracial is that word."
August 29, 2006
- From The Director
- What the heck happened in New York?!
"We were contacted by a third party in May, 2006 because an interracial family living in Staten Island, NY wanted to "get in contact with us" regarding a problem she was having with her biracial daughter's racial classification in her school..."
August 19, 2006
- In The News
- Federal guidelines to revise racial reporting, collecting
"A new proposal from the U.S. Department of Education would change that, and would provide a new mechanism for schools to collect and report racial data from those who are of several different heritages. For the first time, students would be able to check more than one race box..."
August 16, 2006
- Teen Project Race
- President Kayci Baldwin featured in Houston Chronicle article
"Kayci Baldwin, a 14-year-old from New Jersey who spent part of the summer studying at Texas A&M University, said she's struggled with the decision for years. Schools in New Jersey also don't provide a multiracial option -- leaving Baldwin, whose mother is white and father is black, with no accurate choice."
June 19, 2006
- Teen Project Race
- Interview with Drummer Stefanie Eulinburg
Recently I had the chance to hang with Stefanie Eulinburg, the wild drummer for superstar rap-rocker Kid Rock, whose albums have gone platinum more times than I can keep up with. She is majorly fun! I wanted to share our talk with all of you...
June 19, 2006
- Urgent Medical Concerns
- Multiracial adults needed in DC area and Atlanta for important health study
This study will collect the opinions, understandings and personal health care experiences of multiracial persons of African and European ancestry. Understanding multiracial patients' beliefs and experiences about their race, ethnicity, ancestral origin and the genetic components of diseases can provide important data for developing ways to communicate how human genetic variation is related to self-identified race and ethnicity...
June 17, 2006
- From The Director
- What Happened in California
"We pointed out that children don't usually read legislation, so it would be meaningful only if "multiracial" was used on the forms themselves. Senator Simitian refused to further amend the bill so that it would actually mean something to our community."
May 15, 2006
- Teen Project RACE
- Kayci Baldwin Named New Teen Project RACE President
The leadership of Project RACE is very pleased to announce that Kayci Baldwin has been selected as the new President of Teen Project RACE, the organization leading the movement for a multiracial classification...
February 8, 2006
- Project RACE featured in USA Today
- "In 1991, his mother, Susan Graham, co-founded the non-profit Project Race to urge adoption of a multiracial classification on forms requiring racial data."
November 22, 2003
- Hot News
- Important Action Alert!
The "No Child Left Behind" act signed into law by President Bush, does not include multiracial children. Students can only pick ONE race and there is no multiracial classification. Project RACE member, Timothy McGettigan is leading the fight to change the limited racial classifications of the act. Read his very informative paper explaining the problem and how to take action for change.
October 17, 2003
- Hot News
- May the RPI (Racial Privacy Initiative) RIP (Rest in Peace)
October 14, 2003
July 2, 2003
June 18, 2003
May 28, 2003
April 16, 2003
February 28, 2003
February 27, 2003
- In The News
- "Census Confusion"
(Columbia Journalism Review article)
January 30, 2003
- In The News
- "District fires teacher over race remarks"
(St. Louis Post-Dispatch article)
January 5, 2003
- In The News
- "More skip ethnicity declaration on tests"
(Baltimore Sun article)
December 1, 2002
- In The News
- "Parents sue school over teacher's remarks"
(The State article)
August 1, 2002
July 10, 2002
- Hot News
- Project RACE Members Make Progress for the Multiracial Community
May 2, 2002
April 23, 2002
April 13, 2002
- What is race?
- Project RACE gets mentioned in an excellent Denver Post article:
Color lines are blurring as more Americans claim mixed heritage.
March 26, 2002
- From the Director
- Project RACE President Susan Graham speaks on the Academy awards, famous multiracial people and the movement, and the 'one-drip rule'.
November 18, 2001
July 3, 2001
- In The News
- "Census Profiles Young Multiracials"
(Associated Press article)
May 18, 2001
April 11, 2001
April 5, 2001
March 29, 2001
- In The News
- "Project RACE changes face of U.S. Census"
(Tallahassee Democrat article)
March 19, 2001
March 17, 2001
- Census Updates
- "Stats show Alabama's blend"
(Birmingham Post-Herald article)
March 9, 2001
- From the Director
- Where Have All the Activists Gone?
- In The News
- "States Await Census Raw Data"
(Associated Press article)
- In The News
- "Census Figures Show Hispanics Pulling Even With Blacks"
(New York Times article)
February 26, 2001
- In The News
- Knoxville News-Sentinel Changes Misleading Headline After Project RACE Request
2000 Archives
December 11, 2000
June 21, 2000
May 31, 2000
May 17, 2000
- In the News
- "The 'Multiracist' Census"
(NYU J.Post article)
April 14, 2000
- From the Director
- Project RACE vows to continue the fight for the multiracial community!
...while others leave the movement...
March 12, 2000
- Census Updates
- It's Official!
The government issues guidelines on how to count multiracial people.
- In the News
- "Multiracial find a spot in census"
(Detroit Free Press article)
February 13, 2000
- Census Updates
- What should I do with my census form?
The census forms will be in our mailboxes soon...
What should we do?
- From the Director
- Behind The Masks
"Diverse America" is the theme of the Census 2000 Advertising Campaign.
Multiracial people seem to have been left out of that "America".
- Hot News
- Letter to the Census Bureau
"...the U. S. Bureau of the Census is going to pull
out 10,000 of the forms in which
people chose two or more races and send them a follow-up
form asking what
race they would choose if they were asked to only mark one."
February 7, 2000
- Census Updates
- "Employers ponder multiracial census question"
(Kansas City Star article)
1999 Archives
November 1999
- In The News
- Bad Test Score: Is Governor Bush fighting racism with racism?
Project Race founder Susan Graham's editorial concerning the College
Board and the lack of a box for multiracial children on the PSAT.
August 1999
- From the Director
- Project Race founder Susan Graham's letter to
the president of the Interracial Family Alliance
July 1999
- Hot News
- Another Step In The Right Direction
The word is Multiracial and, slowly but significantly, the World is getting it.
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