President Lyndon B. Johnson formed the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders, better known as the Kerner Commission, in 1967 after riots broke out in Detroit and other U.S. cities. The ...

Former U.S. Sen. Fred Harris (D-Okla.), the last surviving member of the Kerner Commission, a panel appointed by President ...

Fred Harris once said, "The fundamental problem is that too few people have all the money and power, and everybody else has ...

Fred Harris, a former Democratic U.S. senator from Oklahoma, is being remembered by party members for his commitment to ...

Okla., died Saturday at age 94, his wife said. Harris is remembered for championing Democratic Party reforms in the 1960s.

It fell to Fred Harris, chair of the Democratic National Committee in 1969 and 1970, to help heal the party's wounds from the ...

He served on the Kerner Commission studying the explosive racial conditions of the United States in the 1960s, was shortlisted for a vice-presidential spot in 1968, briefly chaired the Democratic ...

as he discusses the 50th anniversary of the Kerner Commission. | Russell Contreras/AP Harris was a member of the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders, the so-called Kerner Commission ...

1968 was a year filled with conflict and transformation. The Kerner Commission report shattered dreams of a unified society. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy were silenced by ...

Context clues: In 1968, the Kerner Commission report highlighted failings of the American media in covering the fight for racial equity. Gilliam, one of two Black graduates in the Columbia Journalism ...

Harris was a member of the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders, the so-called Kerner Commission, appointed by then-President Lyndon Johnson to investigate the urban riots of the late ...