A week after the savage Watts riots last August, California’s Governor Pat Brown appointed a commission to find the reasons for the six-day uprising. The commission, headed by tough-minded John ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

African American author, activist and professor Maulana Karenga founded Kwanzaa following the 1965 Watts Riots in Los Angeles, also known as the Watts Rebellion. The holiday spans seven days from ...