Hey everyone Jody here. It is hard to believe but we are already into holiday season for 2021

so over the next month or so we're gonna keep doing new shows and we've also got some really cool end of year specials plan.

One thing we're going to do is take a couple episodes and follow up on a bunch of tidbits

from stories that we covered throughout the year.

So if you have something you want us to follow up on, big or small, get in touch.

We're also going to give ourselves the whole team here a little bit of time off, and

so during those stretches we will run back some of our favorite conversations from the

year. So that's what we're going to do this week,

Thanksgiving week, and then we'll be back with new episodes the Tuesday after

Thanksgiving. We hope you have a great Thanksgiving that you travel and stay safe

and get to spend some time with friends and loved ones and by the way if any of those friends or loved ones say hey you got any podcast recommendations you know what to do.

Okay let's get into it.

Here's one of our favorite episodes from 2021.

Hello and welcome to this day in esoteric political history from Radiotopia.

My name is Jody Avergan.

This day July 27, 1967, President Linden B Johnson establishes the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders, also known as the

Kerner Commission after its chair, Governor Kerner of Illinois.

This commission is in response to what's known as the long hot summer of 1967, a summer marked by rioting,

violence, civil unrest, protest, much of it on behalf of and by black and Latino communities in major cities around the country.

There of course had been riots in Watson, 1965, Chicago, 66, Newark, 67, lots of unrest

going on in this era, and there were riots in Detroit as the

Commission first gathered to meet so you know we will get into all of this but I

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