A collaborative project to investigate the connections between the study of race and racism and academic fields in the humanities has received funding from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Based at academic centers on four campuses — Brown University, the...
The National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders — known as the Kerner Commission after its chair, Governor Otto Kerner Jr. of Illinois — was an 11-member presidential commission established by President Lyndon B. Johnson to investigate the causes of...