Kerner Commission

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• 2/14/2021
  

  Heed the Cornerman's Cry

  by Mike McQuillan

  The failure to heed the warnings of the Kerner Commission in 1968 – of a society divided by racism and inequality – has led to ongoing suffering and a politics of resentment over an ethic of mutual care.

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• SOURCE: NPR
  6/9/2020
  

  What A 1968 Report Tells Us About The Persistence Of Racial Inequality

  The dire economic inequalities between black and white Americans documented by the Kerner Commission's report have not vanished. 

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• SOURCE: CNN
  5/30/2020
  

  It's Been Five Decades Since 1968, and Things are Somehow Worse

  by Julian Zelizer

  For those of us who study the 1960s or lived through those troubled times, it's hard to imagine things could be worse. But they are. 

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  3-1-18
  

  How the Kerner Commission unmade American liberalism

  by Steven M. Gillon

  Instead of revitalizing the Democratic coalition, the commission's report exposed the fractures in American society.

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• SOURCE: Smithsonian
  3-1-18
  

  The 1968 Kerner Commission Got It Right, But Nobody Listened

  Released 50 years ago, the infamous report found that poverty and institutional racism were driving inner-city violence.

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• SOURCE: ABC News
  2-27-18
  

  50 years after Kerner Commission report inequality persists

  Barriers to equality pose threats to democracy in the U.S. as the country remains segregated along racial lines and child poverty worsens, according to a new study that examines the nation 50 years after the release of the landmark 1968 Kerner Report.

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• 7-25-17
  

  What Has Happened in Detroit Comprises a National Emergency

  by Scott Kurashige

  Fifty years ago America made a fateful choice. It’s now our turn to decide on a different path.

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• 5-17-15
  

  Remember the Kerner Commission Report? Here's What You Don't Know.

  by Steven M. Gillon

  What made it speak to America was the last-minute work of a couple of wordsmiths.