Kwanzaa is a holiday that aims to celebrate African Americans, African culture, and the strength of our community through shared values. In 1966, Dr. Maulana Karenga, professor and chairman of ...

Half a century before the riots in Ferguson, Mo., and Baltimore, Md., America saw in Los Angeles’s Watts neighborhood the first of the 1960s’ horrifying urban riots. The Berkeley students ...

The state created this industry-funded system in 1968 after the Watts Riots when insurers became reluctant to write policies in high-risk areas. It’s now the system of last resort for ...

living in Watts, the rather appalling number of over 500 criminals out on parole and it would be a relief to tie up this discussion with the clincher that they started and lead the riots.

In 1965, a race riot erupted in the Watts section of Las Angeles, leaving 34 people dead. This was the first of many riots that erupted across the country over the next four years. In 1967 ...

The 1965 short film gives a glimpse into one of L.A.'s most notorious neighborhoods before it was torn apart by rioting Created by three white UCLA students in 1965—before the riots broke out ...

Wambaugh, who joined the LAPD as a patrolman in 1960, made a splash with his debut novel, The New Centurions, a sweeping tale ...

he won two Golden Mike Awards for a report on the 25th Anniversary of the 1965 Watts Riots and a report on the 1992 L.A. Riots. He also was awarded three first- place California Associated Press ...

It's been six years in the making, but there's something very opportune about the N.W.A biopic being released in 2015, 50 years after the race riots in Watts, just north of Compton. Straight Outta ...