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(10 Oct 2017) The last surviving member of the Kerner Commission says he remains haunted that the panel's recommendations on U.S. race relations and poverty were never adopted.
But nearly 50 years later, former U.S. Sen. Fred Harris of Oklahoma says he remains hopeful that one day, they will be.
Harris says poverty and structural racism are still flaming racial tensions today, even as the United States becomes more diverse.
President Lyndon Johnson created the Kerner Commission to examine the causes of the race riots in the late 1960s. The panel recommended that Johnson spend billions on revitalizing poor cities, improving police relations and ending housing and job discrimination.
The 86-year-old Harris now lives in Corrales, New Mexico, and is working on a book on the 50th anniversary of the Kerner Commission's report.

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