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...
Writer Roxane Gay, dancer and choreographer Bill T. Jones, and historian and artist Nell Painter will be among the featured speakers on campus during Black History Month in February. Other Black History Month events include book discussions, a show...