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RACE: Are We So Different?

0000017c-e1ee-d5b7-affd-edeea8700000The traveling exhibit RACE: Are We So Different? is now on display at the Rochester Museum & Science Center. WXXI, RMSC and several other community partners are working together to promote awareness about racial issues and to foster meaningful conversations about we can improve our understanding of one another. WXXI's reporting on RACE: Are We So Different? is supported by a grant from the New York Council for the Humanities.

AUDIO: 1370 Connection on Race and the Arts

WXXI News | By Jeanne Fisher

Published February 5, 2013 at 11:55 AM EST

Eastman School Dean Douglas Lowry, narrator Paul Burgett, conductor Wade Stare

Bob Smith speaks with conductor Wade Stare, narrator Paul Burgett and Eastman School of Music Dean Douglas Lowry, about The Rochester Philharmonic’s upcoming performance of Rhapsody in Blue by pianist Terrence Wilson, and the contributions of African Americans to the arts.

WXXI's reporting on RACE: Are We So Different? is supported by a grant from the New York Council for the Humanities.