A 1968 report released by a presidentially appointed commission is a dramatic, shocking, and prescient exploration of systemic racism. "White society is deeply implicated in the ghetto," asserted the Kerner Commission. "White institutions created it, white institutions maintain it, and white society condones it." In a newly edited and condensed edition of the report, Columbia professor and New Yorker writer Jelani Cobb discusses its urgency in 2021 and why its detailed examination of economic inequality, race, and policing should become regular reading for all Americans.
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