He served on the Kerner Commission studying the explosive racial conditions of the United States in the 1960s, was shortlisted for a vice-presidential spot in 1968, briefly chaired the Democratic ...

Okla., died Saturday at age 94, his wife said. Harris is remembered for championing Democratic Party reforms in the 1960s.

Fred Harris once said, "The fundamental problem is that too few people have all the money and power, and everybody else has ...

Former U.S. Sen. Fred Harris (D-Okla.), the last surviving member of the Kerner Commission, a panel appointed by President Lyndon Johnson in 1967 to examine the causes of the 1960s riots, died on ...

as he discusses the 50th anniversary of the Kerner Commission. | Russell Contreras/AP Harris was a member of the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders, the so-called Kerner Commission ...

"The fundamental problem is that too few people have all the money and power, and everybody else has too little of either," said Harris in 1975.

Fred Harris, a former U.S. senator from Oklahoma, presidential hopeful and populist who championed Democratic Party reforms ...

Oklahoma residents on Sunday mourned the death of former Democratic U.S. Sen. Fred Harris, a trailblazer in progressive ...