Podcasts about Kerner Commission

Steven Gillon was a scholar in residence at the History Channel for more than 20 years. He has written 12 books on subjects including a history of the United States, the Kerner Commission, Lee Harvey Oswald, and the Life of John F. Kennedy Jr. His latest book is titled "Presidents at War: How World War II Shaped a Generation of Presidents from Eisenhower and JFK through Reagan and Bush." Steven Gillon closes his book saying: "Ironically, the threats facing America in the third decade of the 21st century are very real and, in many ways, similar to the challenges the nation confronted in the 1930s." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

 Steven Gillon was a scholar in residence at the History Channel for more than 20 years. He has written 12 books on subjects including a history of the United States, the Kerner Commission, Lee Harvey Oswald, and the Life of John F. Kennedy Jr. His latest book is titled "Presidents at War: How World War II Shaped a Generation of Presidents from Eisenhower and JFK through Reagan and Bush." Steven Gillon closes his book saying: "Ironically, the threats facing America in the third decade of the 21st century are very real and, in many ways, similar to the challenges the nation confronted in the 1930s." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In 2018, Generation Justice had the honor of interviewing Fred Harris, former US & State Senator, about his experience serving on the Kerner Commission. With the unfortunate recent passing of Fred Harris, we shared his insightful interview once more to continue his legacy and spread his wisdom. You can catch GJ LIVE every Sunday @ 7 PM on KUNM 89.9FM or stream on KUNM.org!

Former Oklahoma senator Fred Harris died recently, at 94 years old. In 1967, Fred Harris and 10 senators came together and released the Kerner Report, a 1400-page explanation of the causes of the protests that filled American cities that summer. It was an instant — and unlikely — bestseller, selling over half a million copies in just three weeks, getting shoutouts by celebrities like Marlon Brando, and sparking debates on news programs throughout the country. The book talked about white racism at a time when that phrase was mostly used by Black activists, not white politicians. Fred Harris was the last surviving member of the Kerner Commission.You can read the full Kerner Report here. If you liked this episode, follow us on X (formerly Twitter) and Instagram @radiodiaries. Visit our website at radiodiaries.org. 

Can we ever learn from history or are we forever doomed to repeat it? On this episode, listen to producer, Nehemiah Bester, as he shares his experience working on the documentary film, The Riot Report on PBS, while comparing and contrasting his personal accounts of rebellion, most notably during the Racial Reckoning of 2020, as a student, activist, and journalist. What's a riot? And what's a rebellion? The Riot Report itself, was the written conclusion of President Lyndon B. Johnson's Kerner Commission of 1967 on what was needed to remedy the massively tense relations among Black people and police that spawned countless riots and uprisings of the 1960s. It's decades later, but what lessons from this investigation can we learn from to prevent future turmoil? And when can we answer President Johnson's century old question? “What happened? Why did it happen? What can be done to prevent it from happening again, and again?” Read the written version of this episode at: aclu-md.org/en/news/riot-vs-rebellion Watch the film: pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/riot-report/

Director Michelle Ferrari's comprehensive documentary THE RIOT REPORT tracks a time in recent American history when Black neighborhoods in scores of cities erupted in violence during the summer of 1967. After four consecutive summers of urban violence, President Lyndon Johnson appointed the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders - informally known as the Kerner Commission, (named after its chair, Governor Otto Kerner Jr. of Illinois) - to answer three questions: What happened? Why did it happen? And what could be done to prevent it from happening again? The bi-partisan commission's 708 page final report, issued in March of 1968, just days before the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., would offer a shockingly unvarnished assessment of American race relations - a verdict so politically explosive that Johnson not only refused to acknowledge it publicly, but even to thank the commissioners for their service. THE RIOT REPORT explores this pivotal moment in the nation's history and the fraught social dynamics that simultaneously spurred the commission's investigation and doomed its findings to political oblivion. Directed by Michelle Ferrari, joins us for a conversation on the reasons why and how the commission members and staff were able to break away from the bureaucratic norms and get closer to the root causes and closer to breaking thru the seemingly intractable barriers to a more equitable society. THE RIOT REPORT was co-written by Ferrari and New Yorker journalist Jelani Cobb, and executive produced by Cameo George. For more go to: pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/riot-report

In 1967, President Lyndon B. Johnson appointed the Kerner Commission to investigate why Black neighborhoods all over the country were “rioting” in protest. He was blindsided by the findings, which blamed the government for race-exclusive policies that fomented poverty, housing crises, unemployment, and discrimination. The film commemorates the landmark report and hints at lessons for a world where racism continues to be a divisive, damaging force.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

PBS documentary explores the Kerner Commission and 1967 racial unrest.

Welcome to this intensive, no holds barred, educational episode of Light ‘Em Up!We're working to tirelessly to expand our global footprint beyond 111 countries!Tonight, we are honored to have back one of our all-time most honored guests. Our especial guest, Dr. Sandy Womack, Jr. -- who is no stranger to Light ‘Em Up -- is our tried-and-true source and resource who can unpack all of these hot and pressing topics for us and provide great clarity and wisdom to them to aide understanding. Dr. Sandy Womack Jr. is a servant leader with over a generation of successful experience in urban education. He's an NCAA All-American wrestler with a doctorate in educational leadership, author, principal, district administrator, equity trainer, motivational speaker, and urban school turnaround specialist. We ask the same question to Dr. Womack as Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. asked in August of '67 when he addressed the 11th Annual Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) in Atlanta, Georgia before over 100 Black leaders – “Where do we go from here?”We've reached a critical inflection point as we examine several crucial issues that currently impact the nation, and Black America specifically, in 2024.He tackles the critical topics of: —      Race & politics: In 2024, the impact of Blacks being the 3rd largest group in America as it relates to political power. —      The black youth and what might its collective future look like; violence & the impact on the perception of Black youth, “Killing them before they grow” —      as well as the intersectionality of the future of a public education, funding and race, examining the question: Is a public education in danger of becoming obsolete? Some 55+ years after The Kerner Commission got it right, yet no one listened, poverty, crime and inequality still infect our society.  (President Lyndon Johnson constituted the Kerner Commission to identify the genesis of the violent 1967 riots that killed 43 in Detroit and 26 in Newark, NJ).  We are still, all these years later, plagued by the same issues. A riot is the language of the unheard.  America still has failed to hear many things and act upon the defaulted promissory note insofar as her citizens of color are concerned.We are in an extended period of post-mortem reflection following the time during which racial justice protests were at their most intense. We now have to ask ourselves: —      What has changed?  And what hasn't? —      Have power and privilege truly been disrupted? —      Has oppression been alleviated? —      What will be the legacy of this moment where we saw global protests in the wake of the killing of George Floyd …  has it all been for nothing? Dr. Womack stresses the fact that there can be no testimony without a test.  He went on to say that “I can't be who I need to be if you're not who you need to be.”  And that the interconnectivity and focusing on what unites versus what divides is what is crucial for our collective advancement. Womack stated that “Poverty is a huge cause of a variety of different things that impact upon the U.S.” and that “education is economic development”.Through the education of the future of the world, our youth, he works in an indefatigable manner to change the heart of people and bring the focus back to faith, hope and love. Tune in to hear a wealth of his wisdoms – we guarantee without a doubt that you will learn much.  Follow our sponsors Newsly & Feedspot here:

Carlos Lozada is currently an Opinion columnist at The New York Times, after spending nearly 20 years at The Washington Post - where he earned the Pulitzer Prize in 2019 for criticism as The Post's nonfiction book critic. He's also an author, with his second book -  The Washington Book - recently published: a collection of essays exploring what books by and about D.C. power players reveal about the people and political conflicts that define Washington. In this conversation, Carlos talks his path from Peru to South Bend to D.C., his accidental route to working in the press, some of his favorite Washington books and stories, and deeply mining his own insights into our current political moment.IN THIS EPISODECarlos' personal journey from Lima, Peru to Washington D.C...Carlos "gateway drug" books into the genre of Washington books...How Carlos defines what exactly is a "Washington Book"...Carlos weighs in on what he considers some of the earliest Washington Books...Carlos' rave  review of the U.S. Grant memoir...The place of All The President's Men in the pantheon of Washington Books...Carlos' favorite cliches from presidential campaign memoirs...The D.C. corridors of power that are undercovered in Washington Books...The Washington Books that are purely exercises in settling scores...Carlos compares the Donald Trump of 2016 to the Donald Trump of 2024...The Washington Books that never were that Carlos would love to read...What reading Vladimir Putin revealed to Carlos about the Russian leader...Carlos' 101 on sharp essay-writing...Carlos waxes nostalgic about the late Washinton Post Outlook Section...AND The 1619 Project, Alexis de Tocqueville, all sorts of minutia, Jody Allen, the American Enterprise Institute, Carol Anderson, animating impulses, The Appalachian Trail, Appomattox, asymmetric polarization, Peter Baker, Steve Bannon, Bob Barnett, beleaguered officials, Joe Biden, Joan Biskupic, Kate Boo, George H.W. Bush, Robert Caro, Jimmy Carter, Jesus Christ, Julie Davis, drop-down menus, enabling environments, farm foremen, The Federal Reserve, Craig Fehrman, Foreign Policy magazine, full absorption, Susan Glasser, Garret Graff, Lindsay Graham, Alan Greenspan, Stephanie Grisham, Maggie Haberman, Susan Hennessey, Fiona Hill, Dustin Hoffman, holy crap anecdotes, David Ignatius, joining-ness, Jurassic Park, Bob Kaiser, Ibram X. Kendi, the Kerner Commission, Adam Kushner, Robert E. Lee, Joe Lieberman, Steve Luxenberg, Thomas Mann, David Maraniss, Mark Meadows, mid-level authoritarian regimes, military duds, Mark Milley, Robert Moses, Robert Mueller, murdered darlings, murky institutions, The New York Review of Books, Kirstjen Nielsen, Notre Dame, Barack Obama, obligatory campaign memoirs, obscene crescendos, Norm Ornstein, parallel histories, the paralysis of power, George Pataki, Tim Pawlenty, policy wonks, John Pomfret, Robert Redford, Marco Rubio, Mark Sanford, Michael Schaffer, Brent Scowcroft, Michael Shear, silent Moscow, John Sununu, Barton Swaim, targeted excerpts, Mark Twain, Mario Vargas Llosa, velociraptors, Scott Walker, Ben Wittes, Michael Wolff, Bob Woodward...& more!

We begin our new section of propaganda by looking at how information is wielded in relation to racism. 0:00 - Introduction2:45 - Propaganda responds to a need18:00 - Propaganda is inimical24:30 - Propaganda induces fear48:35 - Racism is grounded in truth and sincerity54:00 - How propaganda is formed1:05:00 - Mithridatism and Sensitization A huge thanks to Seth White for the awesome music! Thanks to Palmtoptiger17 for the beautiful logo: https://www.instagram.com/palmtoptiger17/ Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/thewayfourth/?modal=admin_todo_tour YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTd3KlRte86eG9U40ncZ4XA?view_as=subscriber Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theway4th/  Kingdom Outpost: https://kingdomoutpost.org/ My Reading List Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/21940220.J_G_Elliot Propaganda Season Outline: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1xa4MhYMAg2Ohc5Nvya4g9MHxXWlxo6haT2Nj8Hlws8M/edit?usp=sharing  Spotify Playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4VSvC0SJYwku2U0awRaNAu?si=3ad0b2fbed2e4864 Episode Outline/Transcript: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1VxfVASJQclvrrbz3yyNitf-krIzVdhCmy_eQJust-kw/edit?usp=sharing  The Red Record: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25896953-the-red-record?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=rVdQq3sRyw&rank=1  Kerner Commission: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerner_Commission Ferguson Federal Report: https://www.justice.gov/sites/default/files/opa/press-releases/attachments/2015/03/04/ferguson_police_department_report.pdf Convicted: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33673634-convicted?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=6pSBh1rpPk&rank=20 I Got a Monster: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/51171365-i-got-a-monster?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=a6Y1gtQaXw&rank=1 The Radical King: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22125264-the-radical-king?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=4LVawLIuYI&rank=1 Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/76401.Bury_My_Heart_at_Wounded_Knee?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=VPYPICrSaC&rank=1 Willie Horton Ad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUxAMG8UqIw Kruse's White Flight: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/345070.White_Flight?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=DHkknItg1q&rank=1 Crash Movie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEJH0hEoHc4 Benjamin Lay episode: https://thefourthway.transistor.fm/episodes/draft-juneteenth-nonviolence-and-abolition Blinding of Isaac Woodard: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/blinding-isaac-woodard/ Daryl Davis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEhUSMRZclQ Bob Jones and racism: https://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2000/marchweb-only/53.0.html Slave Bible: https://www.npr.org/2018/12/09/674995075/slave-bible-from-the-1800s-omitted-key-passages-that-could-incite-rebellion The Leopard's Spots movie: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Leopard%27s_Spots Birth of a Nation movie: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Birth_of_a_Nation Mimesis and Renee Girard: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgB9p2BA4fw EJI atrocities list: https://eji.org/reports/lynching-in-america/ Ota Benga: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ota_Benga Buck v. Bell: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buck_v._Bell Jesse Washington: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63Xg_M1k6-Q Dan Carlin's Painfotainment which features Jesse Washington: https://www.dancarlin.com/product/hardcore-history-61-blitz-painfotainment/ Oprah and Forsyth County: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9Y-n4w7XE8 Implicit Bias: https://perception.org/research/implicit-bias/ ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Welcome to this Special Edition of Light ‘Em Up.  We are currently being downloaded in 99 countries globally!Tonight, we feel very fortunate, highly honored and richly blessed to deliver this Special Black History Month “Short Sojourn” with one of our most popular guests, Dr. Sandy Womack Jr.Dr. Womack Jr. is the Region 3 area superintendent of the Columbus, Ohio school district (the largest in Ohio) and a lifelong educator with 30+ years of experience.He is an inspirational, motivational leader, frequent keynote speaker, role model, an Urban Educational Transformation Expert, and the author of 2 books: "Even the best of plans go astray" and "Creating Successful Urban Schools: The Urban Educators Month by Month Guide to School Improvement”.The cornerstone of Dr. Womack Jr.'s educational philosophy that has led to phenomenal positive outcomes is that "exposure changes expectations and experiences change lives”.  Dr. Womack Jr. earned his Ph.D. in Educational Leadership from Ashland University. He is a devout man of learning, wisdom and history – most importantly to me, he's a dear friend of mine.In this in-depth, educational and explosive episode we examine the root cause of:● The “culture of brutality, the ingrained and the tireless dedication to lie and cover up the truth” in the policing profession.  Just what does “21st century policing” require in the wake of the killing of Tyre Nichols, in Memphis, TN on January 7, 2023?● The cancer(s) that continue to plague the policing profession – the extra-judicial, excessive use(s) of force under the color of authority.  Dr. Womack Jr. expresses that The Kerner Commission got it right, in 1968, but no one listened!● The importance of the appreciation of black and brown lives – that our society and especially members of law enforcement clearly lack an appreciation for.● The fact that even today there are still 2 separate and unequal sets of rules in the U.S. as it relates to contact with law enforcement and persons of color, and this fact continues to be perpetuated in many other areas of society, as well, such as education, financial red-lining, justice, equity, health care and fair & decent housing, just to name a few.● What does Dr. Womack Jr. mean by "stinkin' thinkin'”? ● He tests our knowledge of U.S. History and lays down the challenge to name 10 famous African-Americans in 60 seconds or less that ARE NOT athletes, entertainers, from slavery or civil rights.● He probes us to see if we know who was the first black governor in the U.S.    I'm fairly certain you won't know this answer, unless you “Google” it.● And he challenges us to “go deep” and truly “press into” our critical thinking and self-educate ourselves by reading the “Willie Lynch Letter and The Making of a Slave” which concerns the brutal and inhumane psychology behind the African slave trade and exposes the twisted thinking and the realities of life for a slave in the colonies.If that wasn't action-packed enough, he even throws in some profound wisdom from his uncle that states “If you're not sittin' at the table … you often are on the plate”.You certainly need not be a person of color to benefit from the (always) profound messages shared by Dr. Womack Jr., you need only to be human. You can shop and see all of the extremely valuable resources he has available for educational purposes at this link.Hey!  Don't forget to follow our cross-promotional sponsors Newsly and Feedspot here:

Things in the U.S. feel tense right now. Two years after a police officer killed George Floyd outside a Minneapolis corner store, videos of police violence still appear regularly – and protests follow. Maybe the closest parallel to what's happening today is the so-called "long hot summer" of 1967, when more than 150 cities across the country experienced civil unrest. That year, President Lyndon Johnson appointed a commission to diagnose the root causes of the problem and to suggest solutions. What the so-called "Kerner Commission" concluded — shocking to many Americans – was that the fires in America's cities could be traced back to inequality, white racism, and police brutality. This week, the Kerner Commission's report and its consequences, nearly six decades later.

On the fifth episode of From the Archives, a member of the Kerner Commission discusses the findings of the report at Grinnell College during a memorial symposium honoring the late civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.

University of South Carolina professor Patricia Sullivan taught a class about the 1960s Civil Rights movement and the involvement of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert Kennedy. She described the racial unrest that took place in urban areas such as Watts and Detroit and the subsequent creation of the Kerner Commission. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

(This conversation originally aired on September 15, 2021) Good afternoon and welcome to this archive edition of Midday. Tom Hall's guest is Jelani Cobb, one of the most important public intellectuals of our time, a scholar and commentator who has offered invaluable insights in the study of racial equality in America in several books, and as a contributor and staff writer at The New Yorker. Dr. Cobb also teaches journalism at Columbia University, and is a frequent commentator on MSNBC. Jelani Cobb's latest book is about the Kerner Commission. The commission's report was released in 1968, just one month before the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The commission was established by President Lyndon Johnson in the wake of nearly two dozen riots that had taken place in cities across America over the preceding three years. In his televised address to the nation on the evening he announced the commission in July 1967, President Johnson said: "The only genuine, long-range solution for what has happened lies in an attack— mounted at every level—upon the conditions that breed despair and violence. All of us know what those conditions are: ignorance, discrimination, slums, poverty, disease, not enough jobs. We should attack these conditions—not because we are frightened by conflict, but because we are fired by conscience. We should attack them because there is simply no other way to achieve a decent and orderly society in America." Jelani Cobb makes a compelling case for the Kerner Commission's relevance today. In his trenchant and enlightening introduction to the report, he contends that “Kerner establishes that it is possible for us to be entirely cognizant of history and repeat it anyway.” The racial injustice and inequity that the Kerner Report described more than 50 years ago still create barriers to advancement for people of color. Much of the analysis of the racial dynamic in America that the report offers rings as true today as it did in its day. His book is called The Essential Kerner Commission Report. His co-editor is Matthew Guariglia.Jelani Cobb joined us on our digital line from New York. Because our conversation was recorded earlier, we can't take any calls or on-line comments. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This Thanksgiving week, we're running some favorite episodes from the year that you may have missed. We'll be back the Tuesday after Thanksgiving. //// This episode originally aired on July 27th. This day in 1967, LBJ convened the “Kerner Commission” to look into the roots of violence and unrest in America, largely in Black and brown communities around the country. Jody, Niki, and Kellie are joined by The New Yorkers Jelani Cobb to discuss the convening of the Kerner commission and the report that came out the next year, which offered a frank and damning assessment of the complicity of white Americans. Jelani Cobb is the author of an updated version, “The Essential Kerner Commission Report,” out now. Find a transcript of this episode at: https://tinyurl.com/esoterichistory This Day In Esoteric Political History is a proud member of Radiotopia from PRX. Your support helps foster independent, artist-owned podcasts and award-winning stories. If you want to support the show directly, you can do so on our website: ThisDayPod.com Get in touch if you have any ideas for future topics, or just want to say hello. Our website is thisdaypod.com Follow us on social @thisdaypod Our team: Jacob Feldman, Researcher/Producer; Brittani Brown, Producer; Khawla Nakua, Transcripts; music by Teen Daze and Blue Dot Sessions; Julie Shapiro, Executive Producer at Radiotopia

Tom's guest today is Dr. Jelani Cobb, one of the most important public intellectuals of our time, a scholar and commentator who has offered invaluable insights in the study of racial equality in America in several books, and as a staff writer at the New Yorker. Dr. Cobb, a finalist for the 2018 Pulitzer Prize in Commentary, teaches journalism at Columbia University and is a frequent commentator on MSNBC. Dr. Cobb has just published a new book, co-edited with historian Matthew Guariglia, that reintroduces us to the Kerner Commission Report, the landmark 1968 study of racism, inequity and police violence. The report, formally known as the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders, and chaired by then-Illinois Governor Otto Kerner, Jr., was released just one month before the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The commission was established by President Lyndon Johnson in the wake of nearly two dozen riots that had taken place in cities across America over the preceding three years. In his televised address to the nation on the evening he announced the commission in July 1967, President Johnson said: "The only genuine, long-range solution for what has happened lies in an attack— mounted at every level—upon the conditions that breed despair and violence. All of us know what those conditions are: ignorance, discrimination, slums, poverty, disease, not enough jobs. We should attack these conditions—not because we are frightened by conflict, but because we are fired by conscience. We should attack them because there is simply no other way to achieve a decent and orderly society in America." Jelani Cobb makes a compelling case for the Kerner Commission's relevance today. In his trenchant and enlightening introduction to the report, he demonstrates that, quote, “Kerner establishes that it is possible for us to be entirely cognizant of history and repeat it anyway.” The racial injustice and inequity that the Kerner Report described more than 50 years ago still create barriers to advancement for people of color. Much of the analysis of the racial dynamic in America that the report offers rings as true today as it did in its day.T he book is The Essential Kerner Commission Report, published by W.W. Norton. Dr. Jelani Cobb joins us on our digital line from his office at Columbia University in New York. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Holly and Tracy discuss Jo Nivison Hopper's complex life story and how frustrating and angering it can be to research biographies like hers. They also talk about the availability of the Kerner Commission report to the public and the reiterative nature of the problems outlined in it. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com

In the 1960s, America burned. Black communities' frustration against racist policies, economic isolation, and police brutality spilled into the streets in cities across the country.Hundreds were killed, many by police, and cities like Newark and Los Angeles were left with tens of millions of dollars in property damages. In 1967, shortly after the uprising in Detroit, President Lyndon B. Johnson announced the creation of the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders, to investigate the causes of the protests. It would become known as the Kerner Commission, for its chair, Governor Otto Kerner of Illinois.The panel was mostly white, and all men. But what the commission ultimately found was damning. The Kerner Commission Report, published in 1968, found that white America was responsible for the structural and societal failings that led to the uprisings, famously declaring “white society is deeply implicated in the ghetto. White institutions created it, white institutions maintain it. And white society condones it.”These words, written over 50 years ago, are still relevant today. To some, the words may even seem radical. That's why New Yorker writer Jelani Cobb decided to edit and publish a new version of the findings, called“The Essential Kerner Commission Report.” Trymaine Lee sat down with Jelani at a special New York Public Library event to talk about the re-released report, the discarded recommendations, and why the report is crucial to understanding America today. For a transcript, please visit https://www.msnbc.com/intoamerica. Thoughts? Feedback? Story ideas? Write to us at intoamerica@nbcuni.comFurther Reading and Listening:Detroit at Crossroads 50 Years After Riots Devastated CityNewark Riots Recall an Era Echoed by Black Lives MatterA Warning Ignored: Jelani Cobb on the Essential Kerner Commission

Decades before our current debate over critical race theory, the 1968 Kerner Report pointed the finger at structural racism for creating the conditions that had triggered a series of protests in Black communities across the United States in the summer of 1967. Former Senator Fred Harris is the last surviving member of the Kerner Commission, a group appointed by President Lyndon B. Johnson to investigate the protests and author the report. This story is a part of our Last Witness series, audio portraits of the last surviving witnesses to major historical events. **** Radio Diaries is a small non-profit organization. We make this show with support from listeners like you. You can hear all our stories, sign up for our newsletter, and donate on our website www.radiodiaries.org.

Three of our favorite segments from the week, in case you missed them. New York State Assembly Member Rodneyse Bichotte Hermelyn on the aftermath of the recent earthquake in Haiti (First); Jelani Cobb on The Essential Kerner Commission Report  (Starts at 31:15); Iconic at 50:  Miles Davis' 'Bitches Brew' (Starts at 53:15) If you don't subscribe to the Brian Lehrer Show on iTunes, you can do that here.     

"A tocsin that Americans then chose to ignore, its warnings remain strikingly relevant today." That's how New Yorker staff Jelani Cobb writer characterizes the landmark 1968 Kerner Commission report that analyzed the systemic racism that led to a dozen urban uprisings between 1964 and 1967. We'll talk to Cobb about "The Essential Kerner Commission Report" which re-examines and re-contextualizes its recommendations in the aftermath of George Floyd's murder by Minneapolis police. And we'll talk to Cobb about his new HBO documentary series "Obama: In Pursuit of a More Perfect Union" and how the former president shaped our national discourse on race.

It's July 27th. This day in 1967, LBJ convened the “Kerner Commission” to look into the roots of violence and unrest in America, largely in Black and brown communities around the country. Jody, Niki, and Kellie are joined by The New Yorkers Jelani Cobb to discuss the convening of the Kerner commission and the report that came out the next year, which offered a frank and damning assessment of the complicity of white Americans. Jelani Cobb is the author of an updated version, “The Essential Kerner Commission Report,” out now. Find a transcript of this episode at: https://tinyurl.com/esoterichistory This Day In Esoteric Political History is a proud member of Radiotopia from PRX. Your support helps foster independent, artist-owned podcasts and award-winning stories. If you want to support the show directly, you can do so on our website: ThisDayPod.com Get in touch if you have any ideas for future topics, or just want to say hello. Our website is thisdaypod.com Follow us on social @thisdaypod Our team: Jacob Feldman, Researcher/Producer; Brittani Brown, Producer; Khawla Nakua, Transcripts; music by Teen Daze and Blue Dot Sessions; Julie Shapiro, Executive Producer at Radiotopia

Despite Senate Republicans voting down the idea of a bipartisan commission to investigate the Jan. 6th siege of the U.S. Capitol, there remain multiple avenues for a similar probe to take root.Laying out those alternatives on the podcast, congressional scholar Norman Ornstein notes that any of the remaining options will face unique challenges."Every time we've had commissions in the past—whether if you go back to the Kerner Commission set up by a presidential decree, an executive order by Lyndon Johnson to investigate the assassination of John F. Kennedy, all the way through things like the 9/11 Commission—they've been bipartisan and evenly divided," Ornstein noted on the podcast.For Ornstein, the fact that Rep. Greg Pence (R-Ind.) voted against a commission to investigate the same pro-Trump mob that chanted for his brother Mike Pence to be hanged shows how impossible such cooperation has become.On the episode, Ornstein rattles off the drawbacks and benefits of proceeding through a select committee created by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, an executive order by President Joe Biden, or a blue-ribbon panel appointed by Attorney General Merrick Garland's Justice Department.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Calls for a commission to study the January 6 “insurrection” at the Capitol present an interesting opportunity to take a long and sustained look at what ails the American republic. But the Commission needs to ask the right questions. And? It needs to be staffed by the right scholars. In this podcast, I provide what I believe to be the proper framing and focus of the Commission, and propose a structure for how to answer the most important question and who should be tasked accordingly. Here's an outline of that structure:  Chapter 1 — The Presidential Election of 2016 Joseph Uscinski's "American Conspiracy Theories"  Chapter 2 — Big Tech Communications Shoshana Zuboff's "Age of Surveillance Capitalism" Chapter 3 — Is Hate Speech on the Rise? Daryl Johnson's "Hateland: A Long, Hard Look at America's Extremist Heart" Anne Case and Angus Deaton's "Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism" Chapter 4 — What is the Crisis of Legitimacy? Paul Reitter and Chad Wellmon's work in the Chronicle of Higher Education re: Max Weber's seminal, "Politics as a Vocation" Chapter 5 — The Role of the 2020 Pandemic in Lessening the Bonds of Civil Association Nicholas Christakis's "Apollo's Arrow: The Profound and Enduring Impact of Coronavirus on the Way We Live" Chapter 6 — Free Speech in an Open Society Jonathan Turley Chapter 7 — Challenges to Come Who do YOU suggest? Let me know.  Bottom line? The violence on January 6, 2021 and the violence throughout the country in the summer of 2020 are related.  We don't need a commission to study the January 6, 2021, events as though it were a terrorist attack akin to the events of 9/11.  We need something like the Kerner Commission of 1968, which studied the summer riots of 1967. We have lost a common commitment to a common conception of right. The country is disintegrating. Somehow we transformed a police shooting into a demand for a “racial reckoning” while ignoring growing evidence of “deaths of despair” among older while Americans.  The commission needs to address the cognitive dissonance that has become a part and parcel of our national life. Please consider joining Norm Pattis's growing subscriber base on Patreon. Please also consider giving Law and Legitimacy a 5-Star rating and perhaps leave it a glowing review. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/norm-pattis/support

Calls for a commission to study the January 6 “insurrection” at the Capitol present an interesting opportunity to take a long and sustained look at what ails the American republic. But the Commission needs to ask the right questions. And? It needs to be staffed by the right scholars. In this podcast, I provide what I believe to be the proper framing and focus of the Commission, and propose a structure for how to answer the most important question and who should be tasked accordingly. Here's an outline of that structure:  Chapter 1 — The Presidential Election of 2016 Joseph Uscinski's "American Conspiracy Theories"  Chapter 2 — Big Tech Communications Shoshana Zuboff's "Age of Surveillance Capitalism" Chapter 3 — Is Hate Speech on the Rise? Daryl Johnson's "Hateland: A Long, Hard Look at America's Extremist Heart" Anne Case and Angus Deaton's "Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism" Chapter 4 — What is the Crisis of Legitimacy? Paul Reitter and Chad Wellmon's work in the Chronicle of Higher Education re: Max Weber's seminal, "Politics as a Vocation" Chapter 5 — The Role of the 2020 Pandemic in Lessening the Bonds of Civil Association Nicholas Christakis's "Apollo's Arrow: The Profound and Enduring Impact of Coronavirus on the Way We Live" Chapter 6 — Free Speech in an Open Society Jonathan Turley Chapter 7 — Challenges to Come Who do YOU suggest? Let me know.  Bottom line? The violence on January 6, 2021 and the violence throughout the country in the summer of 2020 are related.  We don't need a commission to study the January 6, 2021, events as though it were a terrorist attack akin to the events of 9/11.  We need something like the Kerner Commission of 1968, which studied the summer riots of 1967. We have lost a common commitment to a common conception of right. The country is disintegrating. Somehow we transformed a police shooting into a demand for a “racial reckoning” while ignoring growing evidence of “deaths of despair” among older while Americans.  The commission needs to address the cognitive dissonance that has become a part and parcel of our national life. Please consider joining Norm Pattis's growing subscriber base on Patreon. Please also consider giving Law and Legitimacy a 5-Star rating and perhaps leave it a glowing review. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/norm-pattis/support

In the year since the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis and the mass mobilization of protest that followed — the largest collective gesture against police violence in this country’s history — there’s been a constant and energized call to defund or outright abolish policing as we know it in the U.S. This week on Intercepted: The U.S. has been grappling with this same cycle of violence for more than nearly a century: A Black person is killed by police, and protests follow. In 1968, the U.S. tried to find out why this kept happening in cities and small towns across the country with an unprecedented frequency. President Lyndon B. Johnson assembled the Kerner Commission to study the extraordinary violence and destruction of uprisings in cities like Newark, New Jersey, and Detroit the year prior. Their findings should surprise no one. Systemic and institutionalized racism was to blame. Structural white supremacy maintained two societies: “One Black, one white. Separate and unequal.”Historian Elizabeth Hinton, author of “America on Fire: The Untold History of Police Violence and Black Rebellion since the 1960s,” argues that protestors were not rioters but rather political participants in rebellion against their own poverty, inequality, and constant surveillance and brutality by the police. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In these two episodes of the Commission series, Nia and Aughie explore the report of the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders, also known as the Kerner Commission. In the first part, Aughie and Nia discuss membership, precipitating events, and list the recommendations. In part 2, they discuss the public reaction to the recommendations, and the ongoing political fallout from the Commission's work.

In these two episodes of the Commission series, Nia and Aughie explore the report of the Kerner Commission. In the first part, Aughie and Nia discuss membership, precipitating events, and list the recommendations.

Radio Public|LibSyn|YouTube|Patreon|Square Cash (Share code: Send $5, get $5!) The Mighty KITM Worldwide Multiplex has battery backup! Nothing can stop us now! David Waldman and Greg Dworkin are charged up and ready to go: If only John Boehner Republicans were in charge there would be no immigration concerns, mass shootings or racism. If George W. Bush was in charge the world would be a progressive utopia. Ah, but Republicans had that former guy come in and ruin it all, aka “William of Normandy”. MT Greene hopes to create a caucus to reestablish pre-Battle-of-Hastings values to US government. Active duty law enforcement are training Oath Keepers, so why isn’t everyone running from the cops anymore? On the other hand, Capitol rioters, sovereign citizens there on 1/6 to make citizen arrests and executions, are now telling judges they were but only citizen journalists. Employees of One America News know that the one thing they aren’t, are journalists. They aren’t Nazis either, as they were just “following orders”.  By the way, their orders were to help overthrow the United States and install Donald Trump. Junior hoped to be installed at OANN someday.  President Biden should establish a Kerner Commission to address the riots. Nazis can be handled separately. Jonathan Turley doesn’t understand why there were no Nuremberg trials for the Allies. The Department of Justice is investigating Kash Patel’s security breaches while he and Devin Nunes tried to make the Deep State a thing.  Today is the day everyone over 16 is eligible for a COVID-19 vaccine shot. Vaccines are humankind’s greatest invention, other than possibly that mars helicopter. (I, for one, welcome the vaccine, and our robot overlords.) How are you handling the pandemic? Most fears are irrational, but they do keep us out of trouble. And, things keep changing. Yesterday’s prudent caution is tomorrow’s performative hygiene. Disease doesn’t only come for sinners… although some people are kind of plainly asking for it. All of us are so lucky that mRNA vaccines worked so well. The Johnson & Johnson vaccine might become a vaccine issued only to those with johnsons.

A discussion with guest John Driver on civil rights in the 1960’s, the Kerner Commission, and how the losses of Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert Kennedy impacted the nation. www.talkaboutthatpodcast.com Instagram: @kennedydynasty Website: www.kennedydynasty.com Shop: Click Here Recommendations: Click Here

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In the summer of 1967 more than 100 cities in America were caught up in riots. US Senator Fred Harris urged the President, Lyndon B Johnson, to investigate the causes. He set up the Kerner Commission and appointed Fred Harris as one of 11 members to find out why America was burning. The final report shocked many Americans when it blamed white racism for creating and sustaining black ghettos. It said the US was dividing into two separate and unequal societies - one black and one white. Claire Bowes has been speaking to former US Senator Fred Harris. Photo: Members of the Kerner Commission giving final approval to the panel's report on 28th February 1968. Senator Fred R. Harris, (D-Okla.) third from left. Credit: Bettmann/Getty

Then, as now, there was pent-up frustration, which boiled over, particularly in many poor black neighborhoods setting off riots that rampaged out of control. At the time, many Americans blamed the riots on what they saw as misplaced black rage and often vague outside agitators. But in March 1968, the Kerner Commission Report turned those assumptions on their head. It declared that white racism, not black anger, was at the root of American turmoil. It talked about bad policing practices, a flawed justice system, unscrupulous consumer credit practices, poor or inadequate housing, high unemployment, voter suppression and other culturally embedded forms of racial discrimination that all combined to ignite the fuse on the streets of African American neighborhoods.  “White society,” the presidentially-appointed panel reported, “is deeply implicated in the creation of the ghetto.” “The nation,” the Kerner Commission warned, “was so divided that the United States was poised to fracture into two radically unequal societies, one black and one white.” Today, there is only one living member of that commission, and he also happens to be the oldest living current or former United States senator. He was once a candidate for president to the United States. He served as chairman of the Democratic National Committee. He served for two terms as a senator from Oklahoma. He is Senator Fred Harris. My WhoWhatWhy conversation with Senator Fred Harris:  

During these pressing times, we all need to be more vigilant in our efforts to combat prejudice and stand up for social justice. Civil unrest is not new in America...in fact, it's deeply embedded in our history. Recent urban uprisings are a direct response to centuries of unchecked police behavior but, in essence, they seek to affect large-scale changes to the way minorities in this country are treated in our governmental system. At this time, on the side of the federal government, not much is being done to understand the root causes and solve today's problems; however, historically there once was a leader who sought to better understand the challenges of one of the most marginalized groups in the country, African Americans. That leader was President Lyndon B. Johnson (LBJ) who launched the War on Poverty and the Model Cities program, signed the Civil Rights Acts of 1964 and 1968, and initiated the 'Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders', more commonly known as the 'Kerner Commission'. This mini-episode resurfaces the commission's findings in the Kerner Report in an in-depth, yet brief discussion about the history of urban uprisings with Dr. Eric Jackson from Northern Kentucky University. Check out the digitized Kerner Report here: https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/Digitization/8073NCJRS.pdf

This presentation and discussion, features Gary Younge (University of Manchester) Alan Curtis (Eisenhower Foundation) on the legacies and lessons of the Kerner Commission and their relevance to the current American moment. Alan Curtis, President, Milton S. Eisenhower Foundation Gary Younge, Professor of Sociology, University of Manchester Chair: Mitch Robertson, Politics Graduate Scholar, Rothermere American Institute. In 1968, the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders, commonly known as the Kerner Commission, concluded that America was heading towards “two societies, one black, one white – separate and unequal”. Today, America’s communities are experiencing increasing racial tensions and inequality, working-class resentment over the unfulfilled American Dream, white supremacist violence, toxic inaction in Washington, and the decline of the nation’s global example. This presentation and discussion with Alan Curtis and Gary Younge was hosted by Mitch Robertson and the Rothermere American Institute on 16 June 2020. Alan Curtis is President of the Eisenhower Foundation and recently co-edited Healing Our Divided Society with Senator Fred Harris, the last surviving member of the Kerner Commission. The book reflects on America’s urban climate today and sets forth evidence-based policies concerning employment, education, housing, neighbourhood development, and criminal justice based on what has been proven to work – and not work. Gary Younge is an award-winning author, broadcaster, and academic. He writes for The Guardian and the Financial Times.

This presentation and discussion, features Gary Younge (University of Manchester) Alan Curtis (Eisenhower Foundation) on the legacies and lessons of the Kerner Commission and their relevance to the current American moment. Alan Curtis, President, Milton S. Eisenhower Foundation Gary Younge, Professor of Sociology, University of Manchester Chair: Mitch Robertson, Politics Graduate Scholar, Rothermere American Institute. In 1968, the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders, commonly known as the Kerner Commission, concluded that America was heading towards “two societies, one black, one white – separate and unequal”. Today, America's communities are experiencing increasing racial tensions and inequality, working-class resentment over the unfulfilled American Dream, white supremacist violence, toxic inaction in Washington, and the decline of the nation's global example. This presentation and discussion with Alan Curtis and Gary Younge was hosted by Mitch Robertson and the Rothermere American Institute on 16 June 2020. Alan Curtis is President of the Eisenhower Foundation and recently co-edited Healing Our Divided Society with Senator Fred Harris, the last surviving member of the Kerner Commission. The book reflects on America's urban climate today and sets forth evidence-based policies concerning employment, education, housing, neighbourhood development, and criminal justice based on what has been proven to work – and not work. Gary Younge is an award-winning author, broadcaster, and academic. He writes for The Guardian and the Financial Times.

In 1967, following a summer of civil unrest in cities across America, President Lyndon B. Johnson convened the Kerner Commission to look at the issues underlying these protests. The Commission's report , issued the following year, concluded that systemic racism lay at the heart of the problems and that “Our nation is moving toward two societies, one black, one white – separate and unequal.” Why did nothing come of the Commission's recommendations and how can we avoid repeating those mistakes today? We'll also begin the hour with an update on Covid-19 and how the Bay Area is opening up after three months in quarantine. The Kerner Commission Prof. Sandra Susan Smith , Former Professor and Chair of the Department of Sociology at UC Berkeley; Incoming Daniel & Florence Guggenheim Professor, Criminal Justice, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. Prof. John A Powell , Professor of Law and Professor of African-American Studies, UC Berkeley and Director Othering &

This week we talk about less-lethal weapons, qualified immunity, and the Blue Wall.We also discuss police unions, the 1033 program, and the Kerner Commission. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit letsknowthings.substack.com/subscribe

Reuther Library outreach archivist Meghan Courtney discusses the conclusions of the 1968 Kerner Commission report in the context of today’s protests over race relations and police brutality. Following infamous rebellions in Detroit and Newark in 1967, President Lyndon B. Johnson established the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders, chaired by Illinois governor Otto Kerner, to … Continue reading Race and Rebellion: Reexamining the Unlearned Lessons of the Kerner Report a Half Century Later →

This week we talk about less-lethal weapons, qualified immunity, and the Blue Wall. We also discuss police unions, the 1033 program, and the Kerner Commission. Support the show: letsknowthings.com/support (patrons receive a bonus episode of the show each month) Show notes/transcript: letsknowthings.com You might also enjoy my other podcast: brainlenses.com

Guests: Eddie S. Glaude Jr. is the James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor and chair of African American Studies at Princeton University.  Professor Glaude is the author of several books including Democracy in Black: How Race Still Enslaves the American Soul; his most recent, Begin Again: James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own will be out in August.  His latest piece on the Time magazine is George Floyd's Murder Shows Once More That We Cannot Wait For White America to End Racism.   Christopher S. Parker, professor of African-American studies at Washington university talks about the Kerner Commission. All Episodes Photo source: Wikimedia. James Baldwin, Hyde Park, London, 1969 by Allan Warren. Allan warren / CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:James_Baldwin_37_Allan_Warren.jpg   The post The Lessons of James Baldwin & The Kerner Commission appeared first on KPFA.

Civil unrest is on a rise in the country after the death of George Floyd, we talk riots, protest, and what the Kerner Commission tried to tell America in 1968, The Grenada Sports Complex, we also talked to NBW Drico about his push for justice in the Robert Loggins case here in Grenada, No snitching, and about new music he dropped. We also talked NBW Tugga, and NBW Guap about their music...

There has been a national eruption after a police officer killed a black man, suffocated him, something like Eric Garner, 5 years ago, and this episode sets out to review the charging documents released by the Minneapolis authorities, what's missing, what we might know if we had the information, the misconduct of Trump contributing to this crisis, the demonstrations in the street protesting, how other leaders have actually been effective in such circumstances in the past, what to make of the violence in the streets in response to the lawlessness blacks have suffered, not to mention the poverty and indignities, and what our response should be to solve this horrendous American tragedy, something like the findings from the Kerner Commission in the '60s John P Flannery, jonflan@aol.com, @jonflan

This week on Generation Justice we learned from former U.S Senator Fred Harris, the last remaining member of the Kerner Commission, established by President Lyndon Johnson to investigate the causes of social unrest of 1967. We will also share a debate from NPR’s All things Considered about the discrimination black men face in public spaces. This segment was produced by long-time GJ member Jason Fuller… and a special interview conducted by our good friends at “CounterSpin” about voting suppression in America. All of this tonight 5/31 on 89.9 KUNM at 7:00pm or stream on KUNM.org! (Original collage by multimedia artist Damon Davis created to mark the 50th Anniversary of the Kerner Commission Report.)

EPISODE SUMMARY Fifty years after the Kerner Commission warned that we were heading toward two separate and unequal nations, America's cities remain largely segregated. In this episode, the hosts discuss how federal and local governments encouraged, supported, and mandated race-conscious programs and policies that hindered efforts at integration. A FEW KEY TAKEAWAYS FROM THIS EPISODE Housing and segregation in the United States was not by accident. Modern technology has assisted in some of the discriminatory practices. How suburban communities came into existence To download the transcript, CLICK HERE LINKS IN THIS EPISODE CLICK HERE TO LEAVE FEEDBACK Follow Ellis Conversations on Twitter Follow Judge Ronald Ellis on Twitter Follow Jamil Ellis on Twitter Follow Jamil Ellis on LinkedIn https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/Digitization/8073NCJRS.pdf OTHER EPISODES OF INTEREST From Loving vs Virginia Brown vs Board of Education Self-Evident Lies

I was a guest on the podcast Wrong Side of History! Nate, the host, drops some knowledge on us about racism, institutionalized racism, race riots in the 1960s, and The Kerner Commission. Hope you enjoy!www.theorypleeb.comwww.patreon.com/theorypleebwww.youtube.com/c/theorypleebwww.medium.com/@theorypleeb

As 1968 began, the city of Detroit was dealing with the aftermath of some of the worst race riots the country had ever seen. That year, the Kerner Commission, appointed by president Lyndon Johnson, placed the blame squarely on the way the police and the city government had handled the response. In this episode, Jeffrey Horner, a professor of urban studies at Wayne State University, speaks with Phillip about how race and class divisions met with economic and social upheaval to shape the city as it tried to rebuild... and also how the city shaped them, as they themselves grew up in Detroit at the time. Read more in this accompanying article from Jeffrey Horner: Police killings of 3 black men left a mark on Detroit’s history more than 50 years ago Music on this episode: Something to save" by Komiku, found on FreeMusicArchive.org, licensed under CC0 1 “This tuning is so dramatic” by Monplaisir, found on FreeMusicArchive.org, licensed under CC0 1 Archival audio WKNR Contact News - Detroit 1967 Address to the Nation Regarding Civil Disorder, 7/27/67. MP594. Racism in America Small Town 1950s Case Study Documentary Film Misconduct allegations mount inside Detroit Police Department Police misconduct costing Detroit millions of dollars Ex-DPD officers charged with misconduct Detroit police officer charged with assault and misconduct in rough arrest at Meijer Police brutality at Detroit Meijer 8 mile and Woodward The Detroit 1967 Riots: A Community Speaks

On this week's Second Look , WMRA's Jessie Knadler traces the links between the Allegheny Mountain Institute, a one-acre hospital farm, and a food 'farmacy' in Fishersville... Christopher Clymer Kurtz tracks the new weapons in the fight against a scourge among Virginia's black bears -- mange... also, Harrisonburg poverty, looking back at the Kerner Commission, Arthur Ashe 50 years later, and Virginia politics!

Carolina Salge of Wake Forest University on struggle to cope with bots. Tanya Golash-Boza of Univ. of California, Merced on abolishing ICE. Sara Jensen of Carthage College untangles the mathematics of knitting. Barbara Crouch on Caffeine Can Kill. Nathan Connolly of Johns Hopkins Univ. takes stock of racism 50 years after the Kerner Commission. Steven Wisensale of Univ. of Connecticut describes America’s baseball diplomacy. Mark Elbroch of Puma Program for Panthera says wild cats are social.

Fifty years ago, a mainstream group of high-profile Americans declared the following: "Our nation is moving toward two societies, one black, one white — separate and unequal. Reaction to last summer’s disorders has quickened the movement and deepened the division. Discrimination and segregation have long permeated much of American life; they now threaten the future of every American. This deepening racial division is not inevitable. The movement apart can be reversed. Choice is still possible. Our principal task is to define that choice and to press for a national resolution." The Kerner Commission, established by President Johnson, embodied left liberalism at its most bold and idealistic. But that vision of radical reform was eviscerated by the American war on Vietnam, the rise of neoliberalism and the modern conservative movement, and liberal triangulation that reached its apotheosis under Bill Clinton. Dan talks to Vanessa A. Bee, a consumer protection lawyer in D.C. and a social media editor for Current Affairs magazine, about her New York magazine essay on the subject: nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/03/how-we-can-get-a-more-equal-union.html. Thanks to Verso Books. Check out Police: A Field Guide by David Correia and Tyler Wall versobooks.com/books/2530-police. Support this podcast at Patreon.com/TheDig and access our new weekly newsletter.

Howard Husock joins Seth Barron to discuss the Fair Housing Act, racial discrimination in residential neighborhoods, and efforts to reinvigorate the law today. This year marks the 50th anniversary of the passage of the Fair Housing Act, the landmark legislation signed by President Lyndon Johnson aimed to end housing discrimination and residential segregation in America. The Kerner Commission in 1968 stated that America was split into "two societies, one black, one white--separate and unequal." In response to the report and the assassination of Martin Luther King, Congress passed the Fair Housing Act. Half a century later, the nation is still debating whether the act's promises were fulfilled.

In 1968, an 11-member panel appointed by President Lyndon B. Johnson was instructed to examine the causes of the multiple uprisings in African-American communities in 1967, and recommend solutions. The "Kerner Commission" did just that, in a 426-page report released in early 1968. Much of the problem, the report stated, was African-American frustration over a lack of economic opportunity, due to white racism. It then detailed multiple potential solutions to help avoid its ominous prediction that “our nation is moving toward two societies, one black, one white—separate and unequal.” This year, the Kerner Report's 50th anniversary, new research shows that civil rights gains since that time have either stalled or even reversed. This episode examines what the Kerner Report sought to change, and why that change hasn't happened. News Beat is a Morey Creative Studios production: www.MoreyCreative.com News Beat is produced, engineered and hosted by Manny Faces: www.MannyFaces.com News Beat Executive Producer is Jed Morey Editor in Chief: Christopher TwarowskiManaging Editor: Rashed MianCover Art Design: Jeff Main Support the show.

On this week's podcast, Roberto Rodríguez, president and CEO of Teach Plus, joins Mike Petrilli and Alyssa Schwenk to discuss race and poverty in education. During the Research Minute, David Griffith examines whether authorizers are making it harder for people of color to win charter contracts.

Michael Imhotep host of The African History Network Show on 3-9-18 discussed The Kerner Commission Report 50 Years Later.  A New Study Looks at the Kerner Report 50 Years later and finds little progress for African American in the areas of Unemployment, Incarceration and Homeownership.  Michael Imhotep deals with the historical events that led to these report being published and how policies have to been written to address the problems outlined in the report impacting the African American community. Text the word “Kemet” to 22828 to sign up for our email newsletter or visit www.AfricanHistoryNetwork.com.   Online Course “Ancient Kemet (Egypt), The Moors & The Maafa: Understanding The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade What They Didn't Teach You In School” taught by Michael Imhotep REGISTER Here: https://theafricanhistorynetworkschool.learnworlds.com/course?courseid=8-11-17---12-hour-course-understanding-the-trans-atlantic-slave-trade-what-they-didnt-teach-you-in-school---ancient-kemet-the-moors--the-maafa  All Sessions are Recorded and are On Demand.   48 Hours Left In our sale - On Sale $50 regularly $120 New DVD Bundle Pack - 8 DVD Lectures from Michael Imhotep  "Breaking The Chains Bundle Pack"  Order Here: http://theafricanhistorynetwork.net/epages/a3d1797c-2da1-4f66-8933-7c6b06c1fe16.sf/en_US/?ObjectID=7253295

This week: education leaders on the Kerner Commission at 50, including Learning Policy Institute president Linda Darling-Hammond, co-directors of UCLA's Civil Rights Project Gary Orfield and Patricia Gándara, The Education Trust president and former U.S. secretary of education John King, and Hewlett Foundation education program director Kent McGuire.

Guest: Nancy Hartwell, Human Trafficking Expert tells us the horror of human trafficking taking place all over the world especially in countries of color. Mariel Miller, Franchise Opportunity Expert, Business Strategist, Franchise Consultant & Speaker gives tips to individuals actively seeking business opportunities, career and investment options.   Larry Fedewa, Conservative Columnist for the Washington Times and Dr Lee Bell, Community Activist, Motivational Speaker and Media Personality discuss The National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders, known as the Kerner Commission and how far this country has come in Fair Housing, Education Equality, Job Equality and other aspects as it relates to the Commission. Ronald Agers, Orlando Hughes, Anthony McClean, Jerald Hoover and Reggie Howell discuss the NBA "ONE AND DONE" rule, HBCU hoops and preview Major League Baseball. Listen live at blogtalkradio.com/la-batchelor or via the phone at 646-929-0130. If you miss the show or part of it, listen to the podcast at thebatchelorpadnetwork.com  

Dr. Scott shares insight on the 50th anniversary of the Kerner Commission's report on race in America, and offers her perspective on how Black America contends with the prospect of two nations divided by race.

March 6, 2018 - The Kerner Commission  - On July 28, 1967, President Lyndon B. Johnson created the Kerner Commission to investigate the causes of race-related uprisings that had taken place in Detroit and dozens of other cities, and to provide recommendations for the future. We talk with former Oklahoma Senator Fred Harris, the last surviving member of the Kerner Commission.

Xavier and Kimber Continue their discussion on gun control, SC political scene, the West Virginia school strike continues, 50th anniversary Kerner Commission, and a new yet overdue social activism campaign to Mute RKelly.   

Listen to podcast of “The African History Network Show” on 910 AM The Superstation from Sunday, March 4th 2018, 9pm-11pm EST with host Michael Imhotep of The African History Network. 1) “Black Panther” breaks the $700 million at the Global box office #1 movie again. 2) Lupita Nyong'o and Viola Davis to star in movie about the African Female Warriors of Dahomey.  3) New Study looks at the Kerner Commission report 50 years later and finds little progress for Black Unemployment And Incarceration In 50 Years.   4) Senegalese-born US Singer, Akon Arrives Ethiopia to mark 122nd Anniversary of Battle of Adwa.  5) You Might Be Giving Gun Companies Even If You Don't Own A gun.   6) Hundreds of African American women gather at Power Rising Summit 2018 for activism and engagement.  7) This date in African American History.   24 Hours Left In our sale - On Sale $50 regularly $120 New DVD Bundle Pack - 8 DVD Lectures from Michael Imhotep  "Breaking The Chains Bundle Pack"  Order Here: http://theafricanhistorynetwork.net/epages/a3d1797c-2da1-4f66-8933-7c6b06c1fe16.sf/en_US/?ObjectID=7253295 or http://www.AfricanHistoryNetwork.com.   Visit http://www.AfricanHistoryNetwork.com for DVDs, podcasts and articles from Michael Imhotep host of The African History Network.  Text the word “Kemet” to 22828 to sign up for our email newsletter.

On this special edition of Generation Justice, we offer three perspectives on race, media and the 50th anniversary of the Kerner Commission Report.The National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders, or The Kerner Commission, was established by President Lyndon Johnson to investigate the causes of social unrest after an especially violent 5 days in the summer of 1967. We speak to Fred Harris, former U.S. Senator for Oklahoma, and published author, who served on and is the last remaining member of the commission. We are also joined by, Janine Jackson, Program Director of FAIR the Media Watch group, and co-producer and host of FAIR’s syndicated radio show Counterspin. And we'll hear from Joseph Torres, Senior Director of Strategy & Engagement for Free Press and co-author of the New York Times Bestseller, "News for all the People: The Epic Story of Race and the American Media." This program was produced in partnership with the Media Makers of Color Alliance who uplift the stories necessary to shift the narrative of people of color in the media. Original collage art is courtesy of Damon Davis, a multimedia artist and film director.

OK we're back at it again!  Welcome to the latest installment of Afronerd Radio'sMid Week in Review (MWIR) podcast-airing this Wednesday at 7pm eastern. Join your favorite Dora Milaje warriors-the testosterone edition (Daryll B., Capt. Kirk and Dburt) as they wax about the following pop and pulp culture issues: Marvel's Black Panther continues to dominate the box office with fans petitioning for an early Wakanda series or movie (didn't Dburt allude to a steampunk/Victorian era Wakandaverse last week?) ; and in the wake of Panther supremely outperforming the Justice League (didn't he best the FF in issue #52?): at the box office, just what would it take to reboot the DCEU or is that necessary?; Netflix' Lost in Space trailer hits the cyberwebs; Black-ish and Grown-ish EPs,  Laurence Fishburne and Helen Fishburne are working on a Moon Girl animated series; discussng the return of writer, Christopher Priest to comic books, especilally this current run of the Justice League; Claudia Gordon, bears the distinction of becoming the first deaf Black woman to earn a Juris Doctor degree;  Dburt has another Black masculinity is in peril rant;  Michael B. Jordan's Fahrenheit 451 trailer hit the cyberwebs this week;  a recent Washinton Post piece theorizes that although its been 50 years since the historic Kerner Commission and their subsequent report on racial inequality and poverty, evidence supports that not much has improved (if not gotten worse); And lastly, as mentioned countless times on Afronerd, what is seen in cinema is just a "test run" for reality-it appears that New Orleans police have been using predictive technology (think Minority Report) to catch criminals with great efficacy.  Call LIVE at 646-915-9620.   

OK we're back at it again!  Welcome to the latest installment of Afronerd Radio'sMid Week in Review (MWIR) podcast-airing this Wednesday at 7pm eastern. Join your favorite Dora Milaje warriors-the testosterone edition (Daryll B., Capt. Kirk and Dburt) as they wax about the following pop and pulp culture issues: Marvel's Black Panther continues to dominate the box office with fans petitioning for an early Wakanda series or movie (didn't Dburt allude to a steampunk/Victorian era Wakandaverse last week?) ; and in the wake of Panther supremely outperforming the Justice League (didn't he best the FF in issue #52?): at the box office, just what would it take to reboot the DCEU or is that necessary?; Netflix' Lost in Space trailer hits the cyberwebs; Black-ish and Grown-ish EPs,  Laurence Fishburne and Helen Fishburne are working on a Moon Girl animated series; discussng the return of writer, Christopher Priest to comic books, especilally this current run of the Justice League; Claudia Gordon, bears the distinction of becoming the first deaf Black woman to earn a Juris Doctor degree;  Dburt has another Black masculinity is in peril rant;  Michael B. Jordan's Fahrenheit 451 trailer hit the cyberwebs this week;  a recent Washinton Post piece theorizes that although its been 50 years since the historic Kerner Commission and their subsequent report on racial inequality and poverty, evidence supports that not much has improved (if not gotten worse); And lastly, as mentioned countless times on Afronerd, what is seen in cinema is just a "test run" for reality-it appears that New Orleans police have been using predictive technology (think Minority Report) to catch criminals with great efficacy.  Call LIVE at 646-915-9620.

On today's episode of Loud & Clear, Brian Becker and John Kiriakou are joined by Dr. Alice Bonner, a docent at the newly opened National Museum of African American History and Culture and retired professor at the Philip Merrill College of Journalism at the University of Maryland, who wrote her dissertation on the Kerner Report, and Dr. Jared Ball a professor of communication studies at Morgan State University and the author of “I MiX What I Like: A MiXtape Manifesto” and you can find his writings at www.IMixWhatILike.org. Today marks the 50th anniversary of the release of the Kerner Commission report, a stunning acknowledgement of the oppression that the black community had been through and the causes of the rebellions in the recent years. President Lyndon Johnson established the commission, headed up by Illinois Governor Otto Kerner. The hosts talk about the Kerner Commission’s legacy and whether the horrific conditions and causes of the ‘60s rebellions have yet been addressed.“Criminal Injustice” continues today, about the most egregious conduct of our courts and prosecutors and how justice is denied to so many people in this country. Kevin Gosztola, a writer for Shadowproof.com and co-host of the podcast Unauthorized Disclosure, and Paul Wright, the founder and Executive Director of the Human Rights Defense Center and editor of Prison Legal News (PLN), join the show. At a meeting with U.S. industry officials at the White House, Trump vowed to rebuild American steel and aluminum industries, saying they had been treated unfairly by other countries for decades. Brian and John speak with Steve Keen, the author of “Debunking Economics” and the world’s first crowdfunded economist, whose work is at patreon.com/ProfSteveKeen. Wall Street bankers are pushing for a significant loosening of the Volcker Rule, a part of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act that restricts certain kinds of speculative investments that do not benefit customers. Brad Birkenfeld, a whistleblower who exposed billions of dollars of financial fraud committed by banking giant UBS and the author of “Lucifer’s Banker: The Untold Story of How I Destroyed Swiss Bank Secrecy,” with writings at lucifersbanker.com, joins the show. President Trump told a group of senators yesterday that he favored stronger background checks for gun purchasers and was open to the idea of raising to 21 the age necessary to buy a gun. The National Rifle Association, in the meantime, was lobbying hard on Capitol Hill to either kill or water down any new firearm legislation. Dr. Wilmer Leon, a political scientist, author, and host of a nationally broadcast talk radio show on Sirius/XM channel 126, and Robert Koehler, an award-winning journalist, nationally syndicated writer, and the author of the book “Courage Grows Strong at the Wound,” join Brian and John. Russian President Vladimir Putin today laid out his key policies ahead of a presidential election that he is expected to win in 17 days. He also made the bombshell announcement that Russia has developed a cruise missile that can reach anywhere in the world, can carry a nuclear warhead, and is impossible to shoot down. Alexander Mercouris, the editor in chief of The Duran, joins the show.White House Communications Director Hope Hicks resigned yesterday hours after testifying on Capitol Hill in the Russia investigation. Hicks is only one of more than two dozen senior White House officials who have resigned in the past year. Meanwhile, Attorney General Sessions responded tersely to President Trump’s angry tweet about his handling of the investigation and to Trump’s comparison of Sessions to the cartoon character Mr. Magoo.

Ify and Turquoise kickoff Women's History Month with discussion of NYPD settlement for removal of hijab during women's history month, Pence's comments on abortion, new study findings on menstrual cramps and heart attacks, PA church's AR-15 blessing, the 50th Anniversary of the Kerner Commission, and more.

Social justice and integrated care overlap. Why? How? Listen in as the CFHA podcast team discusses how the two are inexorably intertwined. Show notes: Announcement Links: 2018 Conference Information: http://www.integratedcareconference.com/ March ACEs Webinar: http://www.cfha.net/page/Webinars IntegratedCareNews.com: http://www.integratedcarenews.com/ News Items: Fifty years after the Kerner Commission, a new report cites the same concerns about race and poverty | The Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2018/02/26/fifty-years-after-the-kerner-commission-a-new-report-cites-some-of-the-same-concerns-about-race-and-poverty/ 50 Years After the Kerner Commission | Economic Policy Institute: https://www.epi.org/publication/50-years-after-the-kerner-commission/ "I Was Almost a School Shooter" | Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0szyYWi9rBo Respect first, Then gun control | The New York Times:https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/19/opinion/parkland-gun-control-shootings.html

Time Flies - JASSNIRO; Theory - ULV Mockups; Carry On - Moving Skies, Chances - Blacktop Daisy; Geeknotes: 02/27 - Race & Inequality in America: The Kerner Commission at 50 @ Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society, Berkeley, 02/28 - Frederick Douglass Pop Up Exhibit & Art Politics Discussion @ CANVAS Institute, Staten Island, NY, 03/03 - Techniques Against Bullying (Ages 5+) @ Jun Chong Martial Arts, Los Angeles, 03/03 - Camp Congress for Girls Los Angeles 2018; Practice - All Day Bedini Test; Don't Stop Just Let It Ride REMIX - Shaddow

Michael Imhotep founder of The African History Network was a guest on "Wake Up With Steve Hood" on 910 AM Superstation Detroit on 6-9-17. He discussed former FBI Director James Comey's U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee testimony on 6-8-17.  Also discussed was the difference between Rebellions and Riots and the 50th anniversary of the Detroit Rebellion of 1967. Listen to The African History Network Show with Michael Imhotep, Sundays, 9pm-11pm EST and on “Wake Up With Steve Hood” Thursdays, 7am – 9am EST on 910 AM in Detroit or around the world online at http://www.910AMSuperstation.com or by downloading the 910AM App to your smartphone or at http://www.AfricanHistoryNetwork.com and listen to the podcasts.  Watch on Facebook LIVE at “The African History Network”.   Follow Michael Imhotep in Social Media at: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheAfricanHistoryNetworkFanpage/  Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheAHNShow  Website: http://www.AfricanHistoryNetwork.com  Visit http://www.AfricanHistoryNetwork.com for a complete list of our DVDs, documentaries, Podcasts, articles, Online Classes and all of the DVD titles from Michael Imhotep.  

In Episode 12 of The Rights Track, Todd talks to Dr Karen Salt and Dr Christopher Phelps from the University of Nottingham about human rights in America through the lens of race. He asks his guests whether a Truth Commission might play a positive role in giving Americans the opportunity to pause for thought about some of the underlying problems facing American Society today. 0.00-09.32 Todd introduces this special final episode of Series 1 of The Rights Track by introducing his two guests and by explaining a little about why he wanted to take some time to discuss recent events in US in respect of violence against African Americans. He references two articles he has written - one on the statistical evidence surrounding the disproportionate levels of violence towards Black Americans and the second on his belief that America ought to consider setting up a Truth Commission to examine some of the underlying problems facing American society. He goes on to explain what a Truth Commission might look like. Todd references a recent UN report by the Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent which also recommends a human rights commission . Karen talks about the importance of finding the right way to talk about race, violence and related issues. She mentions her research project, The Trust Map, which is looking at how trust can be repaired within minority communities. She says it's important to think not just about a Commission, but about what would follow on from it. Todd mentions President Obama's Commission on Police Violence - Dallas Police being held up as exemplar and yet violence happening on the city's streets in recent months. Karen points out that problems like these are not solved overnight and the unrealistic expectations placed on Obama as a black President to achieve more because they assumed that America was “post racial” as soon as a black President was elected. She says she values the idea of people having the opportunity to share their experiences and knowledge about relevant events without necessarily having to quantify it. 09.32-20.00 Christopher Phelps talks about America's history of slavery and the so-called Jim Crow racial segregation and the challenges of modern day in spite of civil and political rights developments. He mentions earlier Commissions including the Kerner Commission looking at riots in the 1960s and the Commission that looked at the Watts Riot in 1965. He thinks a Truth Commission might be useful in gathering information and helping to get people talking about these issues in a constructive way but expresses concern that the circumstances and conditions for it, unlike in South Africa, may not lend themselves to it being effective. Todd talks about how a Truth Commission might work and where the data might come from and what he would want to see emerge from it by way of serious reform and a hard look at the relevant institutions. Karen reflects on the place where she grew up and the impact of issues like drugs and violence on the local community and the ways in which the community was acknowledged but not integrated. 20:00-26.00 Christopher explains a little more about his thoughts on the South African Truth Commission and how the political and social inequality in South Africa differs from that in the United States making him suggest that a process of reconciliation would be fraught. He points out how civil rights issues specific to a country become intertwined with international human rights and how civil rights groups use international laws around human rights a.s a lever to change a situation in a particular country Todd reflects on his own work showing the gap between the legal changes improving the rights of Black American i.e. right to vote, access to education etc. and the lived reality of persistent social, political and legal inequalities. He says this gap is often used to lobby for change. 26.00-end The discussion turns to the Black Lives Matter campaign and Todd's view that statistics clearly show disproportionate violence towards African Americans. Karen comments that there has been a continuous process of resistance through people's day to day lives. She refers to US congressman John Lewis's (she mistakenly says John Conyers' but means Lewis') use of the hashtag #goodtrouble on his Twitter account and a book called Necessary Trouble by Sarah Jaffe and the idea of what happens when you need to protest in a certain way to “trouble” the way certain issues are discussed. She points out that Black Lives Matter covers a wide and diverse range of groups not just groups looking at violence towards African Americans. She goes on to reference some of the sexual harassment allegations made against Donald Trump in the run up to the 2016 Presidential election and how that has prompted interesting and important discourse. Todd compares the Black Lives Matter movement to the Occupy movementand the similar strategies they employed. The discussion moves to how founding documents like the Declaration of Independence are used in ongoing lobbies for change. Christopher Phelps talks about the interaction of economic and social rights with political and legal rights and the need to balance both. He says he hopes the protest movements that have erupted in recent years manage to effect changes to policy. Karen mentions the flaws that exist in some of the original ‘founding' documents used in the States and goes on to talk about her work on Haiti and the challenges that America's history with slavery pose for modern discussions on racial equality. Todd reflects on the discussion and what it might mean for American history and for the future. He talks a little more about the role a Truth Commission might play. Christopher says that what could be happening in the States is a sort of ‘last gasp' of people who don't want to let go of the way things were. He says he's optimistic about the attitudes of young people. Todd talks about the positive stories and ideas that have emerged across Series 1 of The Rights Track and how Series 2 will talk to people using academic evidence on human rights in their work to make the world a better place. Useful links Radicals in America: The US Left since the Second World War Race and Revolution There's no escaping the data: African Americans face injustice at every turn Why America needs a Truth Commission From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime review - disturbing history Greensboro Commission Brown v Board of Education An Appeal to the World Guardian investigation into killings of Black African Americans by police

Melanne Verveer on women’s economic power. Fred Harris tells the truth about immigration. and, on the Bill Press Show, Jimmy Williams interviews Jackie Kucinich.   Melanne Verveer was the first U.S. ambassador for women’s issues, and she has some thoughts about the economic power that women have, both locally and globally. Fred Harris was a United States Senator, chair of the Democratic party and a member of the Kerner Commission on racial violence. He has some strong views about the issues of race and immigration that are still dividing the nation. And Jimmy Williams, sitting in for Bill Press, interviews reporter Jackie Kucinich about Hillary Clinton.   Melanne Verveer The country’s first ambassador at large for global women’s issues, Melanne Verveer, explains how women’s economic power goes beyond just consumer spending. https://giwps.georgetown.edu/   Fred Harris Former Senator Fred Harris says Donald Trump is acting against the interests of the United States by opposing immigration, and sets the record straight about who the so-called illegal immigrants really are..   Jackie Kucinich   Coming up, reporter Jackie Kucinich with the latest on Hillary Clinton – in an interview with Jimmy Williams on the Bill Press Show.   Jim Hightower Avoid Amazon's "Cyber Monday," and buy local.

Fred Harris on the fruits of the Kerner Commission … Ari Berman on Republican attempts to keep Democrats from voting … and a Bill Press Show interview with about Bernie Sanders and pot.   Fred Harris is the last surviving member of the 1968 Kerner Commission on urban disorders. He says race relations and poverty have regressed since the Reagan Administration. Journalist Ari Berman has a new book about how Republicans are imposing voting restrictions, and he tells us how Jeb Bush and Ted Cruz kept blacks from voting in the tainted 2000 presidential election. And the Bill Press show features an interview by Igor Volsky of journalist Amanda Terkel about Bernie Sanders and pot.   Fred Harris Former Senator Fred Harris served on the Kerner Commission on Civil Disorders almost half a century ago. Now, he says the progress that was made in race relations and fighting poverty stopped in the Reagan Administration.   Ari Berman Journalist Ari Berman has written a book called “Give Us the Ballot.” He details for us the long, sordid record of Republicans – including Jeb Bush, Ted Cruz and John Roberts – in preventing minorities from voting. http://ari-berman.com   Amanda Terkel Igor Volsky interviews journalist Amanda Terkel on the Bill Press Show about Bernie Sanders and his position on marijuana.   Jim Hightower What's the price on Jeb Bush's "integrity"?

Baltimore unrest and revisiting the Kerner Commission; progressive talk in the political season with Dan Cantor of Working Families Party; farmers turn to big data to meet demand; and the cultural factors of work and happiness

Forty years after race riots in Detroit, Newark, and dozens of other cities stunned the nation, has anything changed? The program takes a look at an update of the Kerner Commission Report, which blamed the violence on the devastating poverty and hopelessness endemic in the inner cities of the 1960s and includes an interview with former Oklahoma Senator Fred Harris, one of the last living members of the Kerner Commission.

Bill Moyers interviews Newark Mayor Cory Booker for a frontline report on race and politics today.

Forty years after race riots in Detroit, Newark, and dozens of other cities stunned the nation, has anything changed? Bill Moyers interviews Newark Mayor Cory Booker for a frontline report on race and politics today. The program takes a look at an update of the Kerner Commission Report, which blamed the violence on the devastating poverty and hopelessness endemic in the inner cities of the 1960s and includes an interview with former Oklahoma Senator Fred Harris, one of the last living members of the Kerner Commission