Ferrari, a filmmaker and longtime contributor to “American Experience,” says she became interested in making a film about the Kerner Commission after reading the 2018 book “Separate and ...
Context clues: In 1968, the Kerner Commission report highlighted failings of the American media in covering the fight for racial equity. Gilliam, one of two Black graduates in the Columbia Journalism ...
Former U.S. Sen. Fred Harris (D-Okla.), the last surviving member of the Kerner Commission, a panel appointed by President ...