Jelani Cobb on The Kerner Commission Report

The Brian Lehrer Show | Aug 17, 2021

Jelani Cobb, New Yorker writer and professor of journalism at Columbia University and the editor of The Essential Kerner Commission Report (Liveright, 2021), talks about his new edition of the 1968 Kerner Commission Report and why he finds it still essential reading.

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