Students in my Race, Gender and the News class have been spending the
semester studying our local community, Trenton, New Jersey in 1968. Part of
that has included looking at press coverage of the community at that time
to see evidence of the Kerner Commission's critique. As is true of many
urban areas at the time, there was an outbreak of violence and looting on
the day of Dr. King's funeral that locals refer to as the Trenton riots.
Many white old timers in particular will say that is when Trenton died.
It's also when a police officer fatally shot a black college sophomore in
the back of his head as he tried to convince people to go home. He was on
the Mayor's Teen Council and had plans to go into the ministry, but the
initial stories labeled him a looter and headlines referred to "snarling
Negro looters." The Governor shut down any investigation of the
circumstances. My students were shocked at the coverage, by the government
response, and by the overall conditions in the community at the time.

I should mention that while most of my students are from New Jersey, there
are only four students of color in a class of 19, and only four or five
live in Trenton or a near suburb.

I would love to know what others are doing in their classrooms.

Kim Pearson
Associate Professor
Journalism and Professional Writing
The College of New Jersey
http://www.kimpearson.net
@professorkim
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On Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 10:27 AM, Collins, Janice Marie <
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> I would love to join and also lead a panel if needed to discuss the Kerner
> Commission. The commission has been a part of some of my research and I
> think it would be nice to revisit the topic as to the questions of have
> things improved? We have evidence in the media and journalism that it
> really hasn't changed that much...we are still divided and we still report
> on the stereotypical....African Americans in sports, entertainment and
> crime. Please let me know if others are interested in this topic and a
> panel.
>
> Thank you,
>
> Janice
>
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> This is the 50th Anniversary of the Kerner Commission Report.  Are there
> any proposed panels that focus on this milestone?
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