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The Kerner Report: 50 Years Later – Highlights, Full Panel Discussion & Panelist Interviews

March 19, 2018

Highlights from the March 1, 2018 event "The Kerner Report: 50 Years Later" featuring Dr. Fred Harris, former U.S. Senator and last surviving member of the Kerner Commission.

The Kerner Report: 50 Years Later

March 1, 2018

CAN TV video from the March 1, 2018 event with Dr. Fred Harris and panelists.

Reflections on the Kerner Report: Race and Inequality in the 1960s

February 28, 2018

Video from the February 26, 2018 discussion with Professors Jane Rhodes, Cedric Johnson, and Amanda Lewis.

The Reversal of the Chicago River: Bridging environmentalism and urban development

February 23, 2018

Video from the February 20, 2018 event with Richard Lanyon.

Parks, Plans, and Prejudice: The Environmental Politics of Outdoor Recreation

February 13, 2018

Video from the February 13, 2018 event with Professor Emeritus Harold L. Platt.

Remaking Rust Belt Cities: Universities, Nationalism and Economic Development in South Africa

November 15, 2017

Video from the November 15, 2017 event discussion with Professor Leslie Bank.

Creative Funding Mechanisms: Paying for Large Infrastructure Projects

November 7, 2017

Video from the November 7, 2017 event discussion with Carole A. Morey, Michelle Woods, and Fran Lefor Rood.

Shaping Urban Space in Peripheral Capitalism: Real Estate Investment in Warsaw

November 6, 2017

Video from the November 2, 2017 event discussion with Krzysztof Gubański.

Hunger Incorporated: Why the Alliance between Corporations and Anti Hunger Groups Holds Us Back from Solving Hunger

October 25, 2017

Video from the October 23, 2017 discussion with author Andrew Fisher.

The Impact of Infrastructure on Communities: Three Rail-to-Trail Projects

September 19, 2017

Video from the September 19, 2017 discussion on rail-to-trail projects in Chicago.