NOT PYNCHON. Someone on the Plist made this reprint with reassessment happen. Invite everyone even if you can't make it. Set a record. Show NYC.

[Mark Kohut]

Mark the Date. October 27, 7 PM EST from the Robert Byrd Center for
Congressional History and Education on Zoom (only)



Jelani Cobb will discuss his recently published The Essential Kerner
Commission Report.  Cobb is a staff writer for the New Yorker and Professor
of Journalism at the Columbia School of Journalism. He is a leading public
intellectual on racial topics and public affairs.



The Kerner Commission Report: the 1968 Report of the National Advisory
Commission on Civil Disorders was commissioned by President Lyndon Johnson
and published to acclaim in 1968. It reported on the attitudes of Black and
White Americans about the racial violence of the Civil Rights era, looked
at policing practices, the causes of violence, the problem of law
enforcement, and the tangle of issues in Black/White relationships that had
deep roots from the time of slavery.



 It became one of the most widely read government studies in history. A
month after its publication Martin Luther King was assassinated and
violence erupted in more than 100 cities across the nation, which only
added urgency to the subject of the report. The Report asked:



How can we as a people end the resort to violence while we build a better
society?

How can the Nation realize the promise of a single society—one nation
indivisible—

which yet remains unfulfilled?



As Cobb writes, the report was “crucially fated to be taken as a forecast
rather than a review” of the past. In the present time of civil disorders a
look back at the world of the 1960s casts revealing insights into our
current crisis. More than a half century after the Kerner Commission Report
this look back is a look at our troubling present.


Ray Smock, former Historian of the House of Representatives and currently
Interim Director of the Byrd Center, will introduce Professor Cobb.
Following the presentation Jelani Cobb will answer questions from Zoom
viewers via chat.

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This is your chance to hear a dynamic speaker discuss an urgent topic. Zoom
participation is virtually unlimited. This is a premier event and one of
the few Jelani Cobb will be doing in regard to this publication.



The Robert C. Byrd Center for Congressional History and Education at

 Shepherd University

http://www.byrdcenter.org/
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Virtually unlimited Zoom attendance.

Contact Jody M. Brumage he/him

 (304) 876-5648 | jbrumage at shepherd.edu

Four Seasons Books in Shepherdstown, WV has copies of The Essential Kerner
Report. $17.95