UC Berkeley panel to discuss 1968 report blaming riots on racial inequality
“Fifty years later, Harris, 87, is still talking and writing about race, and he’ll attend ‘Race & Inequality in America: The Kerner Commission at 50,’ a conference at UC Berkeley this week that will examine race, segregation and inequality in the United States. ‘Black Rage’ put the black experience in America in the spotlight in 1968. The Kerner Commission’s report, released that year, might have changed the course of history — if it hadn’t been ignored by the federal government.”