In the 1960s, President Johnson sought to address the root of the civil unrest across the country, but the solutions presented to him by a group known as the Kerner Commission were largely ignored. In the latest “History Refocused,” CNN’s Abby Phillip talks to historian
Matthew Lassiter about the similarities to an Obama-era commission and how both stopped short of lasting change.
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