Recalling a debate between Kerner Commission members, former Sen. Fred Harris says the vote to approve the use of the word “racism” in a key chapter of their ultimate report was a close 6-5.

Former U.S. Sen. Fred Harris (D-Okla.), the last surviving member of the Kerner Commission, a panel appointed by President Lyndon Johnson in 1967 to examine the causes of the 1960s riots ...

What can be done to prevent it from happening again and again? The Governor of Illinois, Otto Kerner, chaired the commission, and John Lindsay, New York City’s Mayor, served as Vice-Chairman.

The result was the Kerner Commission and what this commission found was a nation wracked by generations of institutional apartheid and a Black community in particular struggling to survive under ...

1968 was a year filled with conflict and transformation. The Kerner Commission report shattered dreams of a unified society. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy were silenced by ...

Context clues: In 1968, the Kerner Commission report highlighted failings of the American media in covering the fight for racial equity. Gilliam, one of two Black graduates in the Columbia Journalism ...

Semafor’s recent media summit had many ideas about how to restore trust – but not much discussion about how they track back ...

The Kerner Commission was set up in 1967 to investigate the race riots of that year and found that: The USA was a divided society: black people were generally poor while white people were more ...

As Florida gears up its deputization of state troopers to take part in immigration enforcement, the Highway Patrol can’t hire ...