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    Kerner Commission Report at 50

    In 1967, President Lyndon Johnson established a commission headed by Illinois Governor Otto Kerner to study the causes of recent outbreaks of urban violence and to recommend ways to prevent …

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    Detroit Race Riots: 40 Years Later

    Former Senator Fred Harris (D-OK) talked by remote video from Detroit about the findings of the Kerner Commission Report about the race riots in Detroit forty years ago, and examined what ch…

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    Poverty, Inequality and Race

    As part of the “National Media Forum on Poverty, Inequality and Race: 40 Years after the Kerner Commission,” media experts talked about the lack of media coverage of poverty, inequality, and…

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    Poverty, Inequality and Race

    As part of the “National Media Forum on Poverty, Inequality and Race: 40 Years after the Kerner Commission,” journalists and others talked about topics such as lack of media coverage of race…

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    Public Morality, Part 2

    The Milton S. Eisenhower Foundation held a forum on public morality in Washington on October 24th and 25th. The forum paid tribute to the late Father Geno Baroni, who championed the cause of…

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    Public Morality, Part 3

    The Milton S. Eisenhower Foundation held a forum on public morality in Washington on October 24th and 25th. The forum paid tribute to the late Father Geno Baroni, who championed the cause of…

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    Public Morality, Part 1

    The Milton S. Eisenhower Foundation held a forum on public morality in Washington on October 24th and 25th. The forum paid tribute to the late Father Geno Baroni, who championed the cause of…

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    Civil Rights at the Crossroads

    Panelists discussed the present and future direction of the civil rights movement. They discussed tactics of civil rights advocates of the past and how the arguments and issues have changed …

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    Native American Health Care Reform

    Mr. Harris spoke about his tenure as Senator from Oklahoma and the ways in which he was able to assist Indians in Oklahoma and around the country. Representatives Synar and Evans discussed t…

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    Crime Prevention

    Participants spoke on various policies toward crime, as well as Congressional efforts to pass crime legislation. Nicholas Katzenbach emphasized children as the focus of any anti-crime polici…

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    State of Urban America

    The committee heard from administration officials, members of Congress, and local officials on the state of American cities, concentrating on proposals to revive the economically moribund se…

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