Dear Project RACE Members:

March was quite a month for Project RACE. The Census Bureau slowly released the race and ethnicity results from the 2000 Census. A few of the highlights are:

• 2.4% of Americans (about 6.8 million people) picked more than one race; the bureau had expected 2 percent.

• 42% of those who chose more than one race were under the age of 18.

• Some population areas in the United States have multiracial populations much higher than the national average, Hawaii, for example, has 21.4 percent.

• The bureau still prefers to call multiracial people "people who check more than one box."

• Regardless of what the bureau calls us, many major newspapers and television networks use the term "multiracial" at the request of Project RACE.

Project RACE members were interviewed for many articles and broadcasts across the United States regarding the Census and the number of multiracial responses. This resulted in the busiest March ever in the history of our Web site! Our wonderful Webmaster, Jay Fubler Harvey (we couldn't have done it without you, Jay!) reported that in March over 2500 people visited our site, generating over 21,000 hits.

Most important, all this attention generated increased memberships for Project RACE and Teen Project RACE. I would like to welcome the new members to our growing family and thank the current members for your continued support.

Susan