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A 1968 Report Could’ve Brought Us Closer to Racial Justice, But We Ignored It

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Between 1964-1967 uprisings broke out in cities across the country, and the 1968 Kerner Commission Report was created to examine why. Columbia University journalism professor Jelani Cobb has written a new introduction for the report, and he joins host Krys Boyd to discuss why the document is a landmark of American history and remains salient today.