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View video segments of the question and answer portion of the event here >> This year marks the 40th anniversary of the landmark report that was issued by the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders. This report, which has come to be known as the "Kerner Commission Report," assessed the causes of the dozens of race riots that occurred in this country during the 1960s. The Annenberg School for Communication and the Center for Africana Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, and the Institute for Advanced Journalism Studies (IFAJS) at North Carolina A&T State University have undertaken a joint project to determine how this nation has responded to the Kerner Commission's recommendations. We have assembled teams of journalists and academics to conduct empirical research, investigative reporting, and hold roundtable discussions to determine what has happened in some of the cities hardest hit by race riots in the 1960s. read full brief >>
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