50 years after Kerner, we're more divided than we should be
by Clarence Page, Tribune Content Agency
Mar 11, 2018
3 minutes
"Hip" is out, "woke" is in.
"Black power" is out, "Black Lives Matter" is in.
"White flight" is out, "gentrification" is in.
Changes in our social and political conditions are revealed in our social and political vocabulary. Fifty years ago, President Lyndon Johnson's landmark National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders released its final report, known as the Kerner Report, which famously declared our nation to be "moving toward two societies, one black, one white -- separate
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