Ethnic inequality

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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.