The New York Times Has Created a Newsroom-Wide Team for Covering Race

More than a decade ago, The New York Times won a Pulitzer Prize for "How Race is Lived In America," a series of stories exploring attitudes toward race across the United States.

It was an ambitious project. But the idea of doing a single big series about race once a year doesn't track with The Times' current approach to covering the subject, one that's dominated the news and given rise to protests across the United States.

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