In the wake of the Watts riots –– and other similar events around the country –– Dr. Karenga searched for a way to bring unity to the African Americans. He founded the cultural ...

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 ...

Daniel Moynihan submitted his report, “The Negro Family: The Case for National Action,” in March of 1965, and five months later, on Aug. 11, 1965, the Watts riots broke out. In 1965 ...

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 ...

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.