Saturday, November 17, 2007

New Kerner Commission Starts Poverty, Race Tour

from NPR

Here is a link to a story from NPR on a A reconstituted Kerner Commission. It will soon launch a six-city nationwide tour to examine contemporary poverty and race issues. The original Kerner Commission tried to find the causes of race riots in 1967, and concluded that the nation was "moving toward two societies, one black, one white, separate and unequal."

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