With race riots roiling dozens of U.S. cities, in 1968, President Lyndon B. Johnson appointed the Kerner Commission, a group of U.S. government officials, to examine the frustrations of Black Americans living in poverty. We spoke to former Senator Fred Harris, its last surviving member, to see what’s changed and what’s stayed the same.
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