Simmons, Kentucky State Announce Racial Equity Partnership
Kentucky’s historically black colleges and universities will partner to reduce racial inequities in the commonwealth through education, professional training, and research.
Leaders from Simmons College of Kentucky and Kentucky State University signed a memorandum of understanding this afternoon to commit institutional resources to reboot a 1968 national study on race, while using academic and professional development to reduce systemic disparities between African Americans and other ethnic groups in the region.
Dubbed the “Kerner Commission 2.0,” the partnership will develop a new-age edition of the 1967 federal commission which studied causes of and solutions for civil unrest throughout the United States, which in the year of the study’s commissioning accounted for more than 83 deaths and greater than 1,800 injuries, and more than $100 million in property damage…
