How a New Study on Race Relations Echoes LBJ’s 1968 Kerner Report

Blacks and whites in America are “worlds apart,” says a new study on race, which has a familiar tone to a report made decades ago, the Kerner Report.

Blacks are searched at a bayonet point by National Guardsmen in Newark, New Jersey, July 17, 1967. The National Guardsmen entered the riot-torn area of the city at daybreak and searched all cars leaving the riot zone. A white policeman was shot and died after being beaten and stomped by a gang following the shooting of a 22 year old black man. AP Photo/Eddie Adams

A man holds a sign during a civil disobedience action on West Florissant Avenue in Ferguson, Mo., on Aug. 10, 2015. Protests occurred after unrest and a shootout in Ferguson on August 9 that led county officials to declare a state of emergency on August 10. Michael B. Thomas/AFP/Getty Images