Introduction and the history of the Kerner Report --
Part I. Evidence-based policy. Policy that works ; Economic and employment policy ; Education policy ; Housing and neighborhood investment policy ; Criminal justice policy and mass incarceration ; Domestic reform, global impact ; Financing reform ; New will --
Part II. Perspectives from the fiftieth-anniversary National Advisory Council. Economic and employment policy. Economic justice : fifty years after the Kerner Report / Joseph E. Stiglitz ; The policy agenda to address racial injustice / Jared Bernstein ; The case for solidarity / Jeff Faux ; The power of love coupled with opportunity / Dorothy Stoneman ; Fifty years since the 1967 rebellion, have health and health care services improved? / Herbert C. Smitherman, Jr., Lamar K. Johnson, and Anil N. F. Aranha --
Education Policy. Education and the path to one nation, indivisible / Linda Darling-Hammond ; Education : racial and social justice / Diane Ravitch ; Kerner and kids : work remains / Carol Emig ; Still struggling to change the odds for America's poor children and children of color / Marian Wright Edelman ; A new civil rights agenda / Gary Orfield --
Housing and neighborhood investment policy. Housing : a national anthem / Oscar Perry Abello, with Ron Grzywinski and Marilyn Melkonian ; Race relations since the ghetto riots of the 1960s / Elijah Anderson --
Crime prevention and criminal justice policy. Evidence-based programs, policies, and practices / Delbert S. Elliott ; Policing in the United States : from the Kerner legacy looking forward / Laurie O. Robinson ; Race, violence, and criminal justice / Elliott Currie --
Equality and inclusion. Suffering and citizenship : racism and black life / Michael P. Jeffries ; New dimensions of equity : the experience of American Latinos / Henry G. Cisneros ; Everybody does better in Indian country when tribes are empowered / Kevin K. Washburn ; We must do better : fifty years of fitful progress for women / Martha F. Davis --
New will and the media. Messaging strategy needed to combat inequality today / Celinda Lake ; The Kerner Commission and the challenge of politics : the "new ethnicity," class, and racial justice / E. J. Dionne, Jr. ; The media and race relations / Julian E. Zelizer ; Sometimes, "dog bites man" really is the story / Gary Younge.