The Essential Kerner Commission Report The Landmark Study on Race, Inequality, and Police Violence [Audiobook]

English | ISBN: 9781696605342 | 2021 | 11 hours and 27 minutes |MP3 | M4B | 314 MB
Recognizing that a historic study of American racism and police violence should become part of today's canon, Jelani Cobb contextualizes it for a new generation. The Kerner Commission Report, released a month before Martin Luther King Jr.'s 1968 assassination, is among a handful of government reports that reads like an illuminating history book-a dramatic, often shocking, exploration of systemic racism that transcends its time. Yet Columbia University professor and New Yorker correspondent Jelani Cobb argues that this prescient report, which examined more than a dozen urban uprisings between 1964 and 1967, has been woefully neglected.