Reckoning With Racial Violence [Some Sunday Context]

This Day (An America 250 History Show) · May 31, 2026 · 24m

This past week, we talked about the Tulsa Massacre of 1921. For today's "Sunday Context" episode we jump a couple generations ahead to the summer of 1967, when president Johnson convened the “Kerner Commission” to look into the roots of violence and unrest in America, largely in Black and brown communities around the country. The report came out next year and offered a frank and damning assessment of the complicity of white Americans. But it's recommendations were largely ignored and suppresed.

Featuring Jelani Cobb, author of an updated version, “The Essential Kerner Commission Report,” out…