By Theodore Shaw (Click here to view the entire P&R issue) This year marks the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States. As originally written by the Founding Fathers, the Constitution was deeply flawed by its compromises with slavery. From the day it was adopted, a cataclysmic struggle over the issue was … [Read more...] about “On the Sesquicentennial of the Fourteenth Amendment” by Theodore Shaw (April-June 2018 P&R Issue)
Civil Rights History
“History, Origin, and Legacy of the Kerner Commission” by John Koskinen (January-March 2018 P&R Issue)
(Click here to view the entire P&R issue) I was pleased to chair a panel discussion in February on the “History, Origin and Legacy of the Kerner Commission” as part of the symposium held on the 50th anniversary of the Commission's report organized by the Haas Institute at UC Berkeley, the Economic Policy Institute and the 21st Century Cities Initiative at Johns Hopkins. … [Read more...] about “History, Origin, and Legacy of the Kerner Commission” by John Koskinen (January-March 2018 P&R Issue)
“Kerner: A Personal History” by Fred Harris (January-March 2018 P&R Issue)
(Click here to view the entire P&R issue) On the evening of July 27, 1967, my wife and I were gathered with a couple of friends in front of a television in our living room, waiting for President Lyndon Johnson’s nationwide broadcast during which he was expected to announce the appointment of a blue-ribbon citizens commission— what became the President’s National Advisory … [Read more...] about “Kerner: A Personal History” by Fred Harris (January-March 2018 P&R Issue)
“Honoring the Promise” by Shaun Donovan (January-March 2018 P&R Issue)
By Shaun Donovan (Click here to view the entire P&R issue) The Kerner Commission report was a remarkable leap forward in at least three ways. First, most importantly, it represented our government stating the unvarnished truth about race relations in our country. In response to three simple questions from President Johnson—What happened? Why did it happen? What … [Read more...] about “Honoring the Promise” by Shaun Donovan (January-March 2018 P&R Issue)
“A Matter of Democratic Survival” by Sherrilyn Ifill (January-March 2018 P&R Issue)
By Sherrilyn Ifill (Click here to view the entire P&R issue) People think: everybody has a race, and so everybody knows about race. But civil rights is actually an incredibly complex discipline. To do this work, certainly to do this work as a litigator, requires that you understand history, that you understand sociology, that you understand economics, that you … [Read more...] about “A Matter of Democratic Survival” by Sherrilyn Ifill (January-March 2018 P&R Issue)
