The Kerner Report: 50 Years Later

The Kerner Report: 50 Years Later is a collection of essays from the 2018 Detroit Fellowship program. Published on the 50 year anniversary of the Kerner Commission, the Kerner Report identified abuses in policing, unequal education and discrimination in housing and employment, among other factors, as causes for the violence of 1967 in Detroit, Newark and other cities.

The authors of this volume represent the second year of the Humanity in Action Detroit Fellowship, an international group of students and recent graduates who spent four weeks in Detroit, Michigan studying the past and contemporary realities – and failures – of pluralism, democracy, diversity and human rights in the city.

The 22 Detroit Fellows focused on four of the critical areas the Commission identified – education, employment, housing and policing. The Fellows measured the inequities and tracked the course of progress since the release of the Kerner Commission Report after half a decade.

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