Othering & Belonging Institute

The report was produced as a follow-up to the “Race and Inequality in America: The Kerner Commission at 50” conference hosted at UC Berkeley in 2018 by the Haas Institute, in partnership with the Economic Policy Institute and the Johns Hopkins University’s 21st Century Cities Initiative. The report determines that in two areas studied—housing segregation and policing/criminal justice—very few of the recommendations issued by the Kerner Commission in a 600-page report in 1968 to remedy the causes of the social unrest were implemented. A result of the failure to implement the recommendations has been the persistence of stark racial inequalities across the US until this day.