Policing

This blog post is accompanied by a set of safety and guidance resources at the bottom of the page for protestors mobilizing both in-person and online. Since May of this year, people have taken to the streets of Minneapolis, New York City, London and...

This report memorializes key findings of the conference, focusing on two issues that the Kerner Commission addressed—policing and housing—to gauge what progress we have made toward advancing the recommendations made by the Commission and to examine where we have fallen short.

This page and all related pages in the navigation menu serve as an archive of the "Race & Inequality in America: The Kerner Commission at 50 conference."

The shocking deaths of Alston Sterling and Philando Castile this week, accompanied by wrenchingly painful video, are tragic reminders that all the protests, national attention on race and policing, and calls for reform have failed to abate, let alone...

A global protest movement focused on racial inequality has opened the window of opportunity to address systemic and structural racial inequality, and the aperture seems wider than at any point since perhaps Reconstruction. Already the protest...