On a hot summer day in July 1919, a group of Black children floating on a raft drifted farther than they should have, into a part of Lake Michigan that abutted a predominantly white beach. The ...

Lindsey Hernandez grew up in Imperial Courts, one of Watts’ largest public housing complexes. Some nights, the 17-year-old woke up to the sound of gunfire, sometimes to news that someone had died. But ...

The Watts Riots began on Aug. 11, 1965 and ended on Aug. 16, 1965 — and that day Gov. Edmund G. “Pat” Brown declared the riots were over. Here is a sampling of moments about the Watts Riots, or what ...

EDITORIAL WITH PRESIDENT AND GENERAL MANAGER DAN HARRIS. APRIL 12TH, 2015. A DAY THAT SPARKED A CHAIN OF EVENTS THAT WILL FOREVER LIVE IN THE HISTORY OF BALTIMORE CITY. IT WAS ON THAT DAY THAT CELL ...

When Newark police arrested and beat a Black taxi driver during a routine traffic stop on July 12, 1967, the incident ignited long-simmering tensions in the city’s Black neighborhoods, triggering ...

Keynote address by Mike Davis on the social, political and economic underpinnings of the 1992 Los Angeles uprising. Their will be no solution to those fundamental problems if the voices of the ...