Forty Year Update of the Kerner Riot Commission
Poverty, Race, Inequality
And Crime in Detroit
Since the 1960’s
A Hearing for the Citizens of Detroit
November 17, 2007
Wayne State University
Law School
Detroit
Welcome
Harvey Hollins III
Vice President
Wayne State University
Fred Harris
Former U.S. Senator
Member of the Kerner Commission
Alan Curtis
President
Milton S. Eisenhower Foundation
Anthony Adams
Deputy Mayor
City of Detroit
George Cushingberry, Jr
State Representative - 8th House District
State of Michigan
George Galster
Professor of Urban Affairs
Wayne State University
Jamesie Morgan
ACORN
Detroit
David Gamblin
Director of Economic Equality
New Detroit
John Conyers, Jr.
Unites States House of Representative
Representing Michigan's 14th District
Ron Scott
Detroit Coalition Against Police Brutality
Maureen Taylor
Michigan Welfare Rights
Grace Lee Boggs
Activist
Kevin Turman
Pastor, Second Baptist Church
Detroit
Susan Kaufmann
The Center for Education of Women
Mildred Madison
League of Women Voters
Karl Gregory
Emeritus and KDG & Associates
Herbert Smitherson
Assistant Dean
Wayne State University
Roy Levy Williams
National Urban League
Detroit
Heaster Wheeler
Executive Director
NAACP of Detroit
Gwendolyn Mingo
Chairwoman
Coordinating Council for Community Redevelopment
Bankole Thompson
Senior Editor
Michigan Chronicle
George Cushingberry, Jr
State Representative - 8th House District
State of Michigan