Just as police brutality sparked the Watts riots, masked abductions by ICE agents and militarized raids sparked the recent ones in LA. That doesn’t excuse violence, but it’s not an unexpected end ...

Local papers framed the racial attacks as a vigilante response to an immigrant crime wave, and most of the people arrested during the fighting were Latino. The riots didn’t die down until June 8, when ...

Sixty years ago the nation largely moved in a positive direction to address the festering problems that sparked the Watts riots. I’m feeling less confident about where the country goes from here.

Watts riots, 1965. Thousands of Black people moved to Los Angeles during World War II, often to work in aerospace and other manufacturing jobs. But when the war ended, ...

That’s the same year as the “Watts Rebellion” or “Watts Riots.” (The differing titles are a testament to the ongoing culture-war battle over the use of language.) Sparked by frustrations about police ...