Steven Pitts

50 years ago, the federal government ordered a commission to investigate the cause of race riots that erupted across the United States in 1967, and led to the deaths of over 80 people. Their findings, called the Kerner Report, were groundbreaking — the riots resulted from black frustration at an unjust and oppressive economic structure.

Students gathered on campus in a vigil and then marched down Telegraph and Shattuck Avenues to commemorate nine black people killed Wednesday night in a church shooting in Charleston, South Carolina.